HFBoards Top 31 NHL Centers - #18

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Rank	Player	Age	Team	Country	GP	G	A	P	%
#1	Connor McDavid	22			78	41	75	116	85.7%
#2	Sidney Crosby	32			79	35	65	100	71.8%
#3	Nathan MacKinnon	23			82	41	58	99	71.3%
#4	Aleksander Barkov	23			82	35	61	96	38.1%
#5	Patrice Bergeron	34			65	32	47	79	50.9%
#6	Evgeni Malkin	33			68	21	51	72	64.3%
#7	Auston Matthews	21			68	37	36	73	35.0%
#8	Mark Scheifele	26			82	38	46	84	28.9%, 53.7% (TB)
#9	John Tavares	28			82	47	41	88	28.2%,46.3%(TB)
#10	Steven Stamkos	29			82	45	53	98	23.6%
#11	Jack Eichel	22			77	28	54	82	22.7%
#12	Brayden Point	23			79	41	51	92	37.2%
#13	Nicklas Backstrom	31			80	22	52	74	18.9%, 45.8% (TB)
#14	Sean Couturier	26			80	33	43	76	18.1%, 54.3% (TB)
#15	Sebastian Aho	22			82	30	53	83	18.1%, 45.7% (TB)
#16	Ryan O'Reilly	28			82	28	49	77	33.3%
#17	Tyler Seguin	27			82	33	47	80	47.1%
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Suggested Additions:
Kevin Hayes
Ryan Johansen
Nazem Kadri
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
Paul Stastny
Derek Stepan
Dylan Strome
Vincent Trocheck

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[HyPnOtiK]

Lol Pettersson has been getting votes since #6

 

[SHANNYPLAN]

Captain Serious

 

[Hogan20]

Kopitar has one bad year and it's like he's fallen off the face of the earth.

 

[Washington]

Kopitar, Kuznetsov, Pettersson are my next 3 in that order.

 

[Evergreen]

Kopitar has one bad year and it's like he's fallen off the face of the earth.

He actually had 2 bad years out of the last 3. In 2016-17 he only had 12 goals and 40 assists in 76 games, then followed that up with a 92-point season the following year. It's a roller coaster ride with Kopitar. For the record, I voted for him in this poll.

 

[Hogan20]

He actually had 2 bad years out of the last 3. In 2016-17 he only had 12 goals and 40 assists in 76 games, then followed that up with a 92-point season the following year. It's a roller coaster ride with Kopitar. For the record, I voted for him in this poll.

Yea you're right, completely forgot about that. It was also his first season as captain so maybe the extra responsibilities weighed on him.

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

Kuznetsov is literally 1 year removed from 80+ pts and the best playoff run of the decade.

 

[Theodore450]

Barzal kuz and kopitar

 

[mattydamon]

peteyboy

 

[NotLeddy]

Barzal or Larkin here

 

[LennyV]

Toews

 

[Muffin]

How is Kopitar winning this? He shouldn't be anywhere near after the season he just had.

 

[MapleLeafs9]

Gotta be Kuznetsov here

 

[bobholly39]

Kuznetsov is literally 1 year removed from 80+ pts and the best playoff run of the decade.

By that logic - Kopitar is 1 year removed from a 90+ point/Selke winning season (that's comparable to Datsyuk's best seasons for reference sake) and has 2 playoff runs this decade who are on the level of Kuznetsov's and/or possibly better.

 

[drktmplr12]

why is domi a choice?

are we taking this to top 50?

 

[blinds]

Kopitar. Guy is one season removed from a 92-point Selke season. It should have been Kopitar like 5 polls ago. Idk how anyone voted Seguin over Kopitar, Seguin's never even been close to Kopitar's 17-18 season.

Also Kuznetsov is crazy overrated because of one playoff run. Guy is useless outside of the offensive zone and even there he's not great. There's plenty of guys still on the board that can match his offensive output while not being useless on the rest of the ice.

 

[stRANGERdanger]

why is domi a choice?

are we taking this to top 50?

Top 31

 

[LT]

why is domi a choice?

are we taking this to top 50?

Who else is there to add? Please make some suggestions.

 

[NotLeddy]

Who else is there to add? Please make some suggestions.

Add Johansen

 

[Muffin]

Kopitar. Guy is one season removed from a 92-point Selke season. It should have been Kopitar like 5 polls ago. Idk how anyone voted Seguin over Kopitar, Seguin's never even been close to Kopitar's 17-18 season.

Also Kuznetsov is crazy overrated because of one playoff run. Guy is useless outside of the offensive zone and even there he's not great. There's plenty of guys still on the board that can match his offensive output while not being useless on the rest of the ice.

Are we voting on who's the best centre currently? It's hard to say if the Kopitar of last season is the new norm or just an outlier.

 

[b1e9a8r5s]

Kopitar has one bad year and it's like he's fallen off the face of the earth.

I'm a big fan and don't have an issue with him getting votes here, but 3 years ago, he was at 52 points as well. 2 of the past 3 years haven't been great. Of course the 3rd was amazing.

 

[LarKing]

Larkin. Pretty similar offensively to most players left. Far better defensively than most left. Larkin wins most of his matchups against other top centers.

 

[Hogan20]

I'm a big fan and don't have an issue with him getting votes here, but 3 years ago, he was at 52 points as well. 2 of the past 3 years haven't been great. Of course the 3rd was amazing.

Yea I kinda forgot about that season but it was his first as the captain so I'm a little more inclined to give him a break or sorts.

 

[LaMasquerade]

Should be Kuznetsov now.. Kopitar hasn't been that impressive lately