EDMONTON, Alber­ta — The Stan­ley Cup Final is in Edmon­ton, and Oil­ers star Leon Drai­saitl made his­to­ry Mon­day night.

Only it had more to do with his home coun­try than his home arena.

Drai­saitl became the first Ger­man play­er to win the Hart Tro­phy as MVP after lead­ing the league in scor­ing with 110 points in 71 games. He also won the Ted Lind­say Award for most out­stand­ing play­er as vot­ed by peers.

Drai­saitl joins for­mer NBA star Dirk Now­itz­ki as the only Ger­man play­ers to earn MVP hon­ors in one of the four major North Amer­i­can pro­fes­sion­al sports leagues.

“Dirk was obvi­ous­ly some­one that I look up to, some­one that I admire: the way he presents him­self and the way he real­ly has achieved every­thing that there is to achieve for a pro­fes­sion­al ath­lete in North Amer­i­ca,” Drai­saitl said. “He’s always been some­one that I look up and it’s a big hon­or for me to be in that con­ver­sa­tion with him.”

Drai­saitl fin­ished ahead of Col­orado Avalanche cen­ter Nathan MacK­in­non and New York Rangers winger Arte­mi Panarin in vot­ing by the Pro­fes­sion­al Hock­ey Writ­ers Asso­ci­a­tion. He scored 43 goals, and his 67 assists were a career high despite the reg­u­lar sea­son being cut short.

Winnipeg’s Con­nor Helle­buy­ck won the Vez­i­na Tro­phy as top goal­tender, Nashville’s Roman Josi got the Nor­ris Tro­phy as the best defense­man, and Colorado’s Cale Makar won the Calder Tro­phy as rook­ie of the year.

Drai­saitl is the sec­ond Oil­ers play­er to win the Hart in the past four years fol­low­ing Con­nor McDavid, who is wide­ly con­sid­ered the best hock­ey play­er in the world. Drai­saitl played with and with­out McDavid this sea­son and pro­duced even more.

“I think Con­nor and I have a very healthy, great, com­pet­i­tive rela­tion­ship and we just try and make each oth­er bet­ter every day,” Drai­saitl said.

Edmon­ton was elim­i­nat­ed in the qual­i­fy­ing round of the expand­ed 24-team play­offs despite play­ing games in its — emp­ty, of course — home rink. Min­utes before the Dal­las Stars and Tam­pa Bay Light­ning faced off in Game 2 of the final, Drai­saitl accept­ed the Hart and Ted Lind­say vir­tu­al­ly from his home in Cologne, Ger­many, where it was already ear­ly Wednes­day morning.

Drai­saitl didn’t get to cel­e­brate with fam­i­ly mem­bers because they were asleep and would rather still be play­ing for the chance to win a title and add anoth­er white “NHL STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS” ban­ner to the rafters at Rogers Place.

“It’s a nice per­son­al reward,” Drai­saitl said. “But there’s noth­ing that comes ahead of the Stan­ley Cup. That’s the same for any play­er in the league. If I could hand those two or three awards back in for a Stan­ley Cup, I would do that in a heart­beat and I think so would every­one else.”