Wayne Gretzky has won the most career Hart Trophies by a center, with 9.

	NAME	HART	GP	G	A	P	+/-	PIM	PPG	PPA	SHG	SHA	GWG	OTG	S	S%	FOW	FO	FOW%	HIT	BKS	TKA	GVA	TOI/GP
1	Wayne Gretzky W. Gretzky	9	1,487	894	1,963	2,857	+520	577	204	686	73	76	91	2	5,088	17.6
2	Connor McDavid C. McDavid	3	712	361	721	1,082	+168	276	87	277	8	9	72	16	2,407	15.0	3,936	8,243	47.7	533	280	663	652	21:44
3	Mario Lemieux M. Lemieux	3	839	640	961	1,601	+87	769	221	443	46	19	67	11	3,306	19.4	1,414	2,865	49.4	52	45	70	122	22:40
4	Bobby Clarke B. Clarke	3	1,144	358	852	1,210	+507	1,453	99	234	32	35	38	1	2,582	13.9
5	Howie Morenz H. Morenz	3	550	271	205	476		562	5	15	1	0	45	10
6	Sidney Crosby S. Crosby	2	1,352	625	1,062	1,687	+197	854	184	403	4	7	100	25	4,299	14.5	15,664	29,637	52.9	1,181	662	772	1,107	20:40
7	Mark Messier M. Messier	2	1,456	536	993	1,529	+145	1,454	146	353	58	66	79	8	3,350	16.0	3,780	6,871	55.0	195	138	161	310	18:47
8	Phil Esposito P. Esposito	2	1,282	717	873	1,590	+252	910	246	303	23	12	118		5,166	13.9
9	Stan Mikita S. Mikita	2	1,193	466	795	1,261	+264	1,004	128	273	12	6	68		3,834	12.2
10	Jean Beliveau J. Beliveau	2	1,125	507	712	1,219	+117	1,033	173	269	0	2	83		2,627	11.4
11	Bill Cowley B. Cowley	2	549	195	354	549		143	25	28	0	0	34	1
12	Nels Stewart N. Stewart	2	650	324	191	515		955	27	28	0	1	70	12
13	Auston Matthews A. Matthews	1	629	401	326	727	+151	134	104	99	2	1	63	13	2,534	15.8	4,977	9,338	53.3	441	625	591	490	19:52
14	Leon Draisaitl L. Draisaitl	1	790	399	557	956	+86	340	162	167	9	4	72	19	2,147	18.6	6,860	12,941	53.0	461	261	662	884	20:35
15	Nathan MacKinnon N. MacKinnon	1	870	367	648	1,015	+173	389	102	224	2	2	69	14	3,492	10.5	5,539	11,961	46.3	597	474	458	643	20:32
16	Evgeni Malkin E. Malkin	1	1,135	481	780	1,261	+26	1,122	167	301	4	1	80	13	3,568	13.5	5,685	12,642	45.0	673	487	989	1,107	19:35
17	Henrik Sedin H. Sedin	1	1,248	231	810	1,041	+167	642	59	301	7	2	37	6	1,758	13.1	9,437	19,236	49.1	362	256	445	622	17:45
18	Joe Thornton J. Thornton	1	1,714	430	1,109	1,539	+182	1,272	146	402	6	6	68	9	3,068	14.0	12,730	24,108	52.8	1,142	498	1,225	1,527	19:18
19	Peter Forsberg P. Forsberg	1	708	249	636	885	+238	690	71	252	16	16	43	4	1,693	14.7	2,117	4,434	47.7	362	98	350	379	19:34
20	Eric Lindros E. Lindros	1	711	367	472	839	+216	1,328	110	145	7	2	46	6	2,217	16.6	2,628	4,775	55.0	431	100	146	200	19:53
21	Sergei Fedorov S. Fedorov	1	1,149	438	617	1,055	+202	766	131	228	33	27	80	14	3,611	12.1	5,839	10,768	54.2	423	231	385	556	19:56
22	Joe Sakic J. Sakic	1	1,378	625	1,016	1,641	+30	614	205	426	32	17	86	7	4,621	13.5	6,687	12,735	52.5	227	268	419	405	21:09
23	Bryan Trottier B. Trottier	1	1,279	524	901	1,425	+449	912	161	262	19	20	69	1	2,841	18.4
24	Ted Kennedy T. Kennedy	1	696	230	330	560		432	51	87	6	7	35	0
25	Buddy O'Connor B. O'Connor	1	509	140	257	397		34	18	67	1	0	20	1