HFBoards Top 31 NHL Centers - #30

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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%
#18	Anze Kopitar	31			81	22	38	60	34.2%
#19	Evgeny Kuznetsov	27			76	21	51	72	26.4%, 55.0%
#20	Elias Pettersson	20			71	28	38	66	26.4%, 45.0%
#21	Jonathan Toews	31			82	35	46	81	39.2%
#22	Logan Couture	30			81	27	43	70	33.3%
#23	Mathew Barzal	22			82	18	44	62	36.3%, 57.6% (TB)
#24	Dylan Larkin	23			76	32	41	73	35.0%, 42.4% (TB)
#25	Matt Duchene	28			73	31	39	70	24.7%
#26	Sean Monahan	24			78	34	48	82	28.7%
#27	Ryan Getzlaf	34			67	14	34	48	26.2%
#28	Tomas Hertl	25			77	35	39	74	28.9%, 51.8% (TB)
#29	Mika Zibanejad	26			82	30	44	74	28.9%, 48.2% (TB)
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[Ace of Hades]

Horvat should take this. Come on now.

 

[canuckinfuts]

Big Bo

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Am I wrong to say that Horvat is actually still a better player than Pettersson as of right now?

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Domi at 30 then either Horvat or Krejci at 31

 

[bert]

PLD and Horvat to round it out for me.

 

[BruinsBtn]

David Krejci outscored every one of them last year and had terrible linemates, plus he's the better defensively than any of them. The guy has been wildly underrated his entire career.

 

[thelittlecoon]

Am I wrong to say that Horvat is actually still a better player than Pettersson as of right now?

Yeah, Pettersson was better than him for most, if not all, of last season except when he was injured.

David Krejci outscored every one of them last year and had terrible linemates, plus he's the better defensively than any of them. The guy has been wildly underrated his entire career.

Krejci should definitely be #31 to close out this poll imo.

 

[LuckyBoeser]

David Krejci outscored every one of them last year and had terrible linemates, plus he's the better defensively than any of them. The guy has been wildly underrated his entire career.

Horvat didn't have good linemates either and took on the toughest comps to shelter Pettersson and Boeser.

 

[BruinsBtn]

Horvat didn't have good linemates either and took on the toughest comps to shelter Pettersson and Boeser.

If you want to pick him, fine. He's going to win and somehow Krejci isn't even in the conversation. I like Horvat and both played with poor linemates.

But consider this:

Krejci outscored him by 12 points. (21% better PPG)
Played 3 mins per game fewer (17% less icetime)
Played 1 min fewer per game on the PP

 

[Bear Dad]

Krejci

 

[Machinehead]

I see my threat of biological warfare got Zibanejad into the top 30. Sorry you all had to see that.

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Trocheck. Getting the Florida treatment here.

 

[LuckyBoeser]

If you want to pick him, fine. He's going to win and somehow Krejci isn't even in the conversation. I like Horvat and both played with poor linemates.

But consider this:

Krejci outscored him by 12 points. (21% better PPG)
Played 3 mins per game fewer (17% less icetime)
Played 1 min fewer per game on the PP

I think it debetable between a few centers including Horvat and Krejci.

 

[Machinehead]

Krejci had 73 points? Why does nobody talk about that?

 

[LarKing]

I actually didn’t see Krejci in the options the past few polls. Probably would’ve voted him a few polls ago.

 

[rawr]

Trocheck