The Most Valuable Player award will always be a hot button topic.  Is it the Most valuable player in the league? or the Most valuable player to their team?

With no clear cut McDavid front runner at the moment I like to take "one of each" kind of approach.

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Lets face it, Maine an absolute WAGON this year and you don't have to look at the stat leaders lists long to find handfuls of their players.  Doug Weight leads Assists and Points, May O'Nayse leads +/- and arguably top name honors . . . But the skater that keeps catching my eye is Anna Skovgaard.  

Skovgaard, in her 5th year in the SMJHL but first with Maine, has been a Swiss army knife for the Timber. Playing 1st line center and PP1 left defense.  Though she isn't leading any one category, she is solidly in the top 10 of multiple lists, 9th in goals, 3rd in assists, 2nd in points, 2nd in +/-, 4th in SOG.  On top of all that, she is producing at even strength, with only 17 points coming on the powerplay, again, playing defense . . . 64 of 83 points at even strength at 1C is at the very least, something to keep tabs on.

It is still very early, there is plenty of time for someone to go full McJesus and make this a one pony race . . . but I wouldn't be opposed to a putting a few bucks on this particular Norwegian stallion!