2018-2019 Best NHL Players: Voting Results Out Now

Theokritos · Sep 5, 2019

In order to vote, shoot me a private message with your rankings. Both regular season and playoff performance is to be considered, but the relative weight of each is up to the individual voter.

You can vote in the following categories (but you don't have to vote in every single one if you don't like, just leave out what you're not interested in).

Best Players (goalies and skaters). Rank 1-10.
Best Forwards. Rank 1-10.
Best Defensemen. Rank 1-10.
Best Goaltenders. Rank 1-5.
Most Sportsmanlike Players. Rank 1-3.
Best Referees. Rank 1-3.
Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-5.

PMs only.

Clarification: You can vote in as many or as few categories as you like. That means you can also vote in only one category if you prefer. A ballot ranking your favourite team is already a valid ballot.

seventieslord · Sep 5, 2019

What's the deadline?

Theokritos · Sep 5, 2019

seventieslord said:
What's the deadline?

Voting will be open through Sunday, September 15th.

Theokritos · Sep 5, 2019

Theokritos said:
Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-10.

Make that 1-5. Otherwise too many unique names pop up in the lower ranks, it's not really worth the effort.

CallMeShaft · Sep 5, 2019

Am I allowed to vote for John Scott?

SI90 · Sep 9, 2019

Best Players (skaters and goalies). Rank 1-10.

McDavid
Kucherov
Crosby
Ovi
Kane
Hedman
Mackinon
Seth Jones
Barkov
Marchand

Best Forwards. Rank 1-10.

McDavid
Kucherov
Crosby
Ovi
Kane
Mack
Barkov
Marchand
Guadreau
Scheifele

Best Defensemen. Rank 1-10.

Hedman
Seth Jones
Giordano
Karlsson
Josi
Pietrangelo
Reilly
Burns
Carlson
Heiskanen

Best Goaltenders. Rank 1-5.

Vasilevsky
Bishop
Gibson
Price
Binnginton

Most Sportsmanlike Players. Rank 1-3.

Chandler Stephenson
Jack Roslovic
Frederick Guadreau

Best Referees. Rank 1-3.

Wes McCauley
Dan O’Halloran
Kelly Sutherland

Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-5.
Islanders

Barzal
Pulock
Lee
Eberle
Leddy

AmericanDream · Sep 10, 2019

SI90 said:
Best Players (skaters and goalies). Rank 1-10.

McDavid

Kucherov

Crosby

Ovi

Kane

Hedman

Mackinon

Seth Jones

Barkov

Marchand

Best Forwards. Rank 1-10.

McDavid

Kucherov

Crosby

Ovi

Kane

Mack

Barkov

Marchand

Guadreau

Scheifele

Best Defensemen. Rank 1-10.

Hedman

Seth Jones

Giordano

Karlsson

Josi

Pietrangelo

Reilly

Burns

Carlson

Heiskanen

Best Goaltenders. Rank 1-5.

Vasilevsky

Bishop

Gibson

Price

Binnginton

Most Sportsmanlike Players. Rank 1-3.

Chandler Stephenson

Jack Roslovic

Frederick Guadreau

Best Referees. Rank 1-3.

Wes McCauley

Dan O’Halloran

Kelly Sutherland

Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-5.
Islanders

Barzal

Pulock

Lee

Eberle

Leddy

typical New Yorker, can't follow damn instructions...he said PM them to him lol....

SI90 · Sep 10, 2019

AmericanDream said:
typical New Yorker, can't follow damn instructions...he said PM them to him lol....

I PMd first. Just did this for transparency lol

Tuna99 · Sep 11, 2019

Best Players (skaters and goalies). Rank 1-10.

Crosby
Kucherov
McDavid
Bergeron
Erik Karlsson
Schiefle
Marchand
Kane
O’Reilly
Burns

Best Forwards. Rank 1-10.

Crosby
Kucherov
Mcjesus
Bergeron
Schiefle
Marchand
Kane
O’Reilly
Tavares
Mark Stone

Best Defensemen. Rank 1-10.

erik Karlsson
Burns
Giordano
Hedman
Chabot
Pietrangelo
Subban
Josi
Doughty
Jones

Best Goaltenders. Rank 1-5.

Price
Holtby
Vasileski
Binnington
Fred Anderson

Most Sportsmanlike Players. Rank 1-3.

Chabot
Gaudreau
Markov

Best Referees. Rank 1-3.

Wes McCauley
Dan O’Halloran
Kelly Sutherland

Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-5.
Senators

Chabot
Tkachuk
Batherson
Jaros
Pageau

OVITOMMY · Sep 11, 2019

Tuna99 said:
Best Players (skaters and goalies). Rank 1-10.

Crosby

Kucherov

McDavid

Bergeron

Erik Karlsson

Schiefle

Marchand

Kane

O’Reilly

Burns

Best Forwards. Rank 1-10.

Crosby

Kucherov

Mcjesus

Bergeron

Schiefle

Marchand

Kane

O’Reilly

Tavares

Mark Stone

Best Defensemen. Rank 1-10.

erik Karlsson

Burns

Giordano

Hedman

Chabot

Pietrangelo

Subban

Josi

Doughty

Jones

Best Goaltenders. Rank 1-5.

Price

Holtby

Vasileski

Binnington

Fred Anderson

Most Sportsmanlike Players. Rank 1-3.

Chabot

Gaudreau

Markov

Best Referees. Rank 1-3.

Wes McCauley

Dan O’Halloran

Kelly Sutherland

Best Players of your favourite team. Rank 1-5.
Senators

Chabot

Tkachuk

Batherson

Jaros

Pageau

Trap Jesus · Sep 11, 2019

How hard is it to follow directions lol. There's a reason OP wants it PM'd.

Theokritos · Sep 11, 2019

Speaking of PMs: 25 ballots have been sent in so far. Here's hoping (significantly) more are to come until Sunday!

Theokritos · Sep 14, 2019

While new votes keep coming in, the first batch of ballots is already being processed. I'm counting in batches so that I don't have to re-count the entirety of ballots in case of a mistake.

Player names obscured here.

Theokritos · Sep 15, 2019

Last day of voting. So far I have 37 ballots for the league-wide categories, plus 47 ballots for the individual teams (which TBH is not very much in a 31-team league).

Theokritos · Sep 16, 2019

You know the feeling when you're halfway through a heap of work and then one wrong click eliminates everything? That's what just happened to me.

Therefore, processing the ballots will take a bit more time. Hope you have patience.

Theokritos · Sep 19, 2019

Point system:

Top 10 ballots:
1st place = 20 points (10+10)
2nd place = 19 points (10+9)
3rd place = 18 points (...)
4th place = 17 points
5th place = 16 points
6th place= 15 points
7th place = 14 points
8th place = 13 points (...)
9th place = 12 points (10+2)
10th place= 11 points (10+1)

Top 5 ballots:
1st place= 10 points (5+5)
2nd place = 9 points (5+4)
3rd place = 8 points (5+3)
4th place = 7 points (5+2)
5th place = 6 points (5+1)

Top 3 ballots:
1st place = 6 points (3+3)
2nd place = 5 points (3+2)
3rd place = 4 points (3+1)

Theokritos · Sep 19, 2019

Best Forwards (38 ballots, max 760 points)

Rank	Player:	Country:	Team:	1st:	2nd:	3rd:	4th:	5th:	6th:	7th:	8th:	9th:	10th:	Ballots:	Points:
1.	Connor McDavid	Canada	Edmonton Oilers	28	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	38	750
2.	Nikita Kucherov	Russia	Tampa Bay Lightning	8	13	8	5	2	0	1	0	0	0	37	682
3.	Sidney Crosby	Canada	Pittsburgh Penguins	2	11	8	8	2	4	2	0	0	0	37	649
4.	Nathan MacKinnon	Canada	Colorado Avalanche	0	2	10	8	6	3	3	3	1	1	37	599
5.	Patrick Kane	America	Chicago Blackhawks	0	0	5	4	7	10	3	2	2	0	33	512
6.	Alexander Ovechkin	Russia	Washington Capitals	0	1	3	5	5	3	3	1	2	1	24	373
7.	Aleksander Barkov	Finland	Florida Panthers	0	0	0	3	0	0	11	6	5	1	26	340
8.	Patrice Bergeron	Canada	Boston Bruins	0	1	1	1	7	2	2	3	1	3	21	308
9.	Brad Marchand	Canada	Boston Bruins	0	0	1	1	1	7	0	4	6	2	22	302
10.	Leon Draisaitl	Germany	Edmonton Oilers	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	3	2	3	13	174
11.	Auston Matthews	America	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	4	3	1	13	166
12.	Ryan O'Reilly	Canada	Saint Louis Blues	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	3	1	2	10	134
13.	Johnny Gaudreau	America	Calgary Flames	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	6	11	128
14.	Steven Stamkos	Canada	Tampa Bay Lightning	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	2	3	9	116
15.	Yevgeni Malkin	Russia	Pittsburgh Penguins	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	1	1	7	99
16.	John Tavares	Canada	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	1	4	8	97
17.	Mitch Marner	Canada	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	3	6	78
18.	Mark Scheifele	Canada	Winnipeg Jets	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	1	5	64
19.	Mark Stone	Canada	Vegas Golden Knights	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	5	62
20.	Blake Wheeler	Canada	Winnipeg Jets	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	3	39
21.	David Pastrňák	Czechia	Boston Bruins	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	2	27
22.	Mikko Rantanen	Finland	Colorado Avalanche	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	27
23.	Artemi Panarin	Russia	Columbus Blue Jackets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	24
24.	Jack Eichel	America	Buffalo Sabres	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	23

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Players who appeared on only one single ballot omitted.

The other rankings are going to follow.

Llamamoto · Sep 19, 2019

Wow, Evgeni Malkin's underrated. He's still a top-10 forward IMO. Definitely not 15th.

Theokritos · Sep 19, 2019

Best Goaltenders (35 ballots, max 350 points)

Rank:	Player:	Country:	Team:	1st:	2nd:	3rd:	4th:	5th:	Ballots:	Points:
1.	Andrei Vasilevsky	Russia	Tampa Bay Lighting	19	7	5	1	1	33	306
2.	Carey Price	Canada	Montreal Canadiens	4	7	4	6	4	25	201
3.	Ben Bishop	America	Dallas Stars	5	6	4	1	3	19	161
4.	John Gibson	America	Anaheim Ducks	4	3	5	4	3	19	153
5.	Sergei Bobrovsky	Russia	Columbus Blue Jackets	1	5	0	5	6	17	126
6.	Jordan Binnington	Canada	Saint Louis Blues	1	2	3	1	4	11	83
7.	Tuukka Rask	Finland	Boston Bruins	1	0	2	4	2	9	66
8.	Robin Lehner	Sweden	Chicago Blackhawks	0	2	4	2	1	9	80
9.	Braden Holtby	Canada	Washington Capitals	0	1	0	2	4	7	47
10.	Pekka Rinne	Finland	Nashville Predators	0	0	2	4	1	7	50
11.	Frederik Andersen	Denmark	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	3	2	1	6	44
12.	Henrik Lundqvist	Sweden	New York Rangers	0	0	0	0	1	2	19
13.	Carter Hart	Canada	Philadelphia Flyers	0	0	1	0	0	2	15
14.	Marc-Andre Fleury	Canada	Vegas Golden Knights	0	0	0	1	1	2	13

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Players who appeared on only one single ballot omitted.

bobholly39 · Sep 19, 2019

Llamamoto49 said:
Wow, Evgeni Malkin's underrated. He's still a top-10 forward IMO. Definitely not 15th.

Agreed. I'm fine with the top 6, but i'd probably slot him 7th.

CH · Sep 19, 2019

Llamamoto49 said:
Wow, Evgeni Malkin's underrated. He's still a top-10 forward IMO. Definitely not 15th.

I thought this was the 2018-2019 Best NHL Players. That is what the title says. In 2018/19 was Malkin a top 10 forward? He finished 49th in league scoring. He put up the worst +/- rating on the Penguins. He only lasted one round in the playoffs. I argue no he wasn't. I didn't vote for him at all.

Now if this was titled current best NHL players then I would vote differently.

CH · Sep 19, 2019

Theokritos said:
Best Goaltenders (35 ballots, max 350 points)

Rank Player: Country: Team: 1st: 2nd: 3rd: 4th: 5th: Ballots: Points:
1. Andrei Vasilevsky Russia Tanpa Bay Lighting 19 7 5 1 1 33 306
2. Carey Price Canada Montreal Canadiens 4 7 4 6 4 25 201
3. Ben Bishop America Dalls Stars 5 6 4 1 3 19 161
4. John Gibson America Anaheim Ducks 4 3 5 4 3 19 153
5. Sergei Bobrovsky Russia Columbus Blue Jackets 1 5 0 5 6 17 126
6. Jordan Binnington Canada Saint Louis Blues 1 2 3 1 4 11 83
7. Tuukka Rask Finland Boston Bruins 1 0 2 4 2 9 66
8. Robin Lehner Sweden Chicago Blackhawks 0 2 4 2 1 9 80
9. Braden Holtby Canada Washington Capitals 0 1 0 2 4 7 47
10. Pekka Rinne Finland Nashville Predators 0 0 2 4 1 7 50
11. Frederik Andersen Denmark Toronto Maple Leafs 0 0 3 2 1 6 44
12. Henrik Lundqvist Sweden New York Rangers 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 19
13. Carter Hart Canada Philadelphia Flyers 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 15
14. Marc-Andre Fleury Canada Vegas Golden Knights 0 0 0 1 1 2 13
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Players who appeared on only one single ballot omitted.

Why do Lundqvist and Hart have an extra column by their names? What does that represent?

Theokritos · Sep 20, 2019

CH said:
Why do Lundqvist and Hart have an extra column by their names? What does that represent?

A mere mistake. It's fixed now.

nbwingsfan · Sep 20, 2019

Theokritos said:
Best Goaltenders (35 ballots, max 350 points)

Rank Player: Country: Team: 1st: 2nd: 3rd: 4th: 5th: Ballots: Points:
1. Andrei Vasilevsky Russia Tanpa Bay Lighting 19 7 5 1 1 33 306
2. Carey Price Canada Montreal Canadiens 4 7 4 6 4 25 201
3. Ben Bishop America Dallas Stars 5 6 4 1 3 19 161
4. John Gibson America Anaheim Ducks 4 3 5 4 3 19 153
5. Sergei Bobrovsky Russia Columbus Blue Jackets 1 5 0 5 6 17 126
6. Jordan Binnington Canada Saint Louis Blues 1 2 3 1 4 11 83
7. Tuukka Rask Finland Boston Bruins 1 0 2 4 2 9 66
8. Robin Lehner Sweden Chicago Blackhawks 0 2 4 2 1 9 80
9. Braden Holtby Canada Washington Capitals 0 1 0 2 4 7 47
10. Pekka Rinne Finland Nashville Predators 0 0 2 4 1 7 50
11. Frederik Andersen Denmark Toronto Maple Leafs 0 0 3 2 1 6 44
12. Henrik Lundqvist Sweden New York Rangers 0 0 0 0 1 2 19
13. Carter Hart Canada Philadelphia Flyers 0 0 1 0 0 2 15
14. Marc-Andre Fleury Canada Vegas Golden Knights 0 0 0 1 1 2 13
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Players who appeared on only one single ballot omitted.

Binnington continues to be the most overrated player in the NHL imo.

Theokritos · Sep 21, 2019

Best Defensemen (37 ballots, max 740 points)

Rank	Player:	Country:	Team:	1st:	2nd:	3rd:	4th:	5th:	6th:	7th:	8th:	9th:	10th:	Ballots:	Points:
1.	Victor Hedman	Sweden	Tampa Bay Lightning	15	9	6	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	36	676
2.	Brent Burns	Canada	San Jose Sharks	5	5	7	8	4	2	0	3	2	1	37	625
3.	Mark Giordano	Canada	Calgary Flames	10	3	5	4	3	2	2	1	3	0	33	570
4.	Seth Jones	America	Columbus Blue Jackets	0	7	2	4	1	5	3	4	4	2	32	492
5.	Erik Karlsson	Sweden	San Jose Sharks	4	4	3	3	3	6	0	1	2	3	29	469
6.	Roman Josi	Switzerland	Nashville Predators	0	3	3	3	3	3	3	5	6	0	29	434
7.	Alex Pietrangelo	Canada	Saint Louis Blues	0	2	2	3	3	5	5	5	2	1	28	423
8.	Morgan Rielly	Canada	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	1	1	4	6	3	5	4	1	2	27	402
9.	John Carlson	America	Washington Capitals	0	0	1	3	4	4	6	1	3	4	26	370
10.	Drew Doughty	Canada	Los Angeles Kings	3	2	3	1	3	1	3	2	1	0	19	312
11.	Kris Letang	Canada	Pittsburgh Penguins	0	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	3	4	12	157
12.	Jaccob Slavin	America	Carolina Hurricanes	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	4	8	95
13.	Colton Parayko	Canada	Saint Louis Blues	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	4	67
14.	John Klingberg	Sweden	Dallas Stars	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	1	5	66
15.	Shea Weber	Canada	Montreal Canadiens	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	4	62
16.	Oliver Ekman-Larsson	Sweden	Arizona Coyotes	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	5	59
17.	Miro Heiskanen	Finland	Dallas Stars	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	4	55
18.	Mattias Ekholm	Sweden	Nashville Predators	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	4	54
19.	Thomas Chabot	Canada	Ottawa Senators	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	4	49
20.	Charlie McAvoy	America	Boston Bruins	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	40
21.	Ryan Suter	America	Minnesota Wild	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	34
22.	Rasmus Dahlin	Sweden	Buffalo Sabres	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	29
23.	Ryan McDonagh	America	Tampa Bay Lightning	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	2	27
24.	Tyson Barrie	Canada	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	25
25.	Hampus Lindholm	Sweden	Anaheim Ducks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2	25

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Players who appeared on only one single ballot omitted.

Rank	Player:	Country:	Team:	1st:	2nd:	3rd:	4th:	5th:	Ballots:	Points:
1.	Andrei Vasilevsky	Russia	Tanpa Bay Lighting	19	7	5	1	1	33	306
2.	Carey Price	Canada	Montreal Canadiens	4	7	4	6	4	25	201
3.	Ben Bishop	America	Dalls Stars	5	6	4	1	3	19	161
4.	John Gibson	America	Anaheim Ducks	4	3	5	4	3	19	153
5.	Sergei Bobrovsky	Russia	Columbus Blue Jackets	1	5	0	5	6	17	126
6.	Jordan Binnington	Canada	Saint Louis Blues	1	2	3	1	4	11	83
7.	Tuukka Rask	Finland	Boston Bruins	1	0	2	4	2	9	66
8.	Robin Lehner	Sweden	Chicago Blackhawks	0	2	4	2	1	9	80
9.	Braden Holtby	Canada	Washington Capitals	0	1	0	2	4	7	47
10.	Pekka Rinne	Finland	Nashville Predators	0	0	2	4	1	7	50
11.	Frederik Andersen	Denmark	Toronto Maple Leafs	0	0	3	2	1	6	44
12.	Henrik Lundqvist	Sweden	New York Rangers	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	19
13.	Carter Hart	Canada	Philadelphia Flyers	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	15
14.	Marc-Andre Fleury	Canada	Vegas Golden Knights	0	0	0	1	1	2	13

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