Name a winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy (MVP): rare answers

“Name a winner of the NHL's Hart Trophy (MVP)” has 63 accepted answers here, and 22 of them (35%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Wayne Gretzky, Alexander Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

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Accepted answers: 63
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 22 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 17 different; B is the most common (11)

🐙 Abyssal: 8 answers (13%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 14 answers (22%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 19 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 17 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 5 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

8 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Billy Burch, Bill Cowley, Babe Pratt and Al Rollins. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Billy Burch, Bill Cowley, Babe Pratt, Al Rollins, Ebbie Goodfellow, Buddy O'Connor, Herb Gardiner, Tommy Anderson

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Eddie Shore, Andy Bathgate, Bernie Geoffrion, Toe Blake, Sid Abel, Elmer Lach, Roy Worters, Frank Nighbor, Ted Kennedy, Max Bentley, Aurèle Joliat, Nels Stewart, Babe Siebert, Chuck Rayner

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Maurice Richard, Brett Hull, Sergei Fedorov, Martin St. Louis, Henrik Sedin, Guy Lafleur, Connor Hellebuyck, Phil Esposito, Taylor Hall, Jacques Plante, Nikita Kucherov, Jean Béliveau, Chris Pronger, Stan Mikita, Bobby Clarke, Bryan Trottier, Howie Morenz, Jose Theodore, Milt Schmidt

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Gordie Howe, Connor McDavid, Bobby Orr, Patrick Kane, Mark Messier, Carey Price, Bobby Hull, Auston Matthews, Evgeni Malkin, Joe Thornton, Dominik Hašek, Nathan MacKinnon, Eric Lindros, Leon Draisaitl, Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg, Corey Perry

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Wayne Gretzky, Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Jaromír Jágr, Mario Lemieux

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.