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2021-22 NHL midseason awards: Crowning the league’s best players so far

Which NHL players are leading the way as March begins?

If you can believe it, the 2021-22 NHL season is more than halfway over now. We still have two months of regular season action before the playoffs, and of course the trade deadline is just around the corner as well.

Even so, one of the biggest talking points this time of year is awards! Technically we’ve already passed the midway point of the NHL season, but it’s still more than fair game to give out midseason awards for all the heavy hitters. And by now, some of the NHL’s biggest names have started to separate themselves from the pack as the award races get tighter by the day.

With that out of the way, here are our picks for midseason awards for the 2021-22 NHL season.

Graduate transfer Jack Adams headed to Notre Dame

The Irish have added to their roster.

Notre Dame is about to give a player with limited game action over the past couple years a chance to redeem that. Coach Jeff Jackson has announced that the Irish will add graduate transfer Jack Adams for the 2021-22 season. This comes after an injury sidelined Adams throughout the 2019-20 season and he transferred from Union to Providence for last season after COVID-19 forced Union to sit the season out. Adams is a 2017 sixth-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings.

Adams, who hails from Boxboro, Massachusetts, has scored 35 points, including 14 goals, over 72 collegiate games. All of his scoring came at Union as he failed to register a single point in six games at Providence.

Before college hockey, Adams played two seasons with the Fargo Force of the USHL. He had a breakout 2016-17 season there, scoring 37 goals and accumulation 60 points in 56 games. That team included new Irish teammate Michael Graham.