HFBoards Top 31 NHL Wingers - #14

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Rank	Player	Age	Team	Country	GP	G	A	P	%
#1	Nikita Kucherov	26			82	41	87	128	85.0%
#2	Patrick Kane	30			81	44	66	110	39.2%
#3	Alexander Ovechkin	33			81	51	38	89	61.5%
#4	Brad Marchand	31			79	36	64	100	38.0%
#5	Leon Draisaitl	23			82	50	55	105	30.9%
#6	Mark Stone	27			77	33	40	73	32.6%
#7	Claude Giroux	31			82	22	63	85	26.8%
#8	Artemi Panarin	27			79	28	59	87	30.5%
#9	Johnny Gaudreau	26			82	36	63	99	34.6%
#10	Taylor Hall	27			33	11	26	37	56.4%
#11	Mitch Marner	22			82	26	68	94	45.2%
#12	David Pastrnak	23			66	38	43	81	34.7%
#13	Mikko Rantanen	22			74	31	56	87	51.5%
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Suggested Additions:

Cam Atkinson (1)

Evgenii Dadonov (1)

Jonathan Marchessault (1)

Gustav Nyquist (1)

Zach Parise (1)

Reilly Smith (1)

Teuvo Teravainen (1)

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[NetflixandPhil]

Wheeler and Tarasenko are the easy next 2, then it gets close between a lot of others

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Timo Meier is the best 5-on-5 player left on the board.

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Player	5-on-5 Points	5-on-5 Points/60	Most Common Center Linemate	% of time with center	RAPM Goal Impact	RAPM xGoal Impact	RAPM Corsi Impact
Jake Guentzel	57	2.67	Sidney Crosby	86%	5.45	4	30.2
Timo Meier	47	2.58	Logan Couture	73%	4.88	5.82	125.3
Jonathan Huberdeau	47	2.45	Aleksander Barkov	60%	3.08	2.58	82.4
Alex Debrincat	44	2.36	Dylan Strome	43%	4.12	-1.33	12.6
Phil Kessel	43	2.28	Evgeni Malkin	56%	0.67	-1.65	-135.2
Mikko Rantanen	42	2.17	Nathan MacKinnon	85%	3.95	-1.82	106.8
Jeff Skinner	42	2.08	Jack Eichel	70%	6.37	1.41	17.3
Matthew Tkachuk	41	2.27	Mikael Backlund	76%	-0.37	1.95	108.7
Blake Wheeler	40	1.99	Mark Scheifele	95%	-0.47	-1.83	-4.3
Alexander Radulov	39	2.13	Tyler Seguin	78%	7.24	2.94	12.8
Vladimir Tarasenko	37	2.05	Ryan O'Reilly	65%	0.95	2.39	20.7
Joe Pavelski	36	2.01	Logan Couture	36%	-1.53	4.36	41.3
Jamie Benn	36	1.95	Tyler Seguin	67%	4.97	2.43	-9.2
Jakub Voracek	36	1.94	Sean Couturier	54%	-2.71	-1.25	-43.7
Gabriel Landeskog	36	1.88	Nathan MacKinnon	82%	4.64	0.01	-7.6
Kyle Connor	35	1.8	Mark Scheifele	50%	-0.44	-1.78	-14.1
Viktor Arvidsson	34	2.52	Ryan Johansen	83%	1.64	0.35	21.6
Filip Forsberg	32	2.19	Ryan Johansen	84%	1.22	3.25	54.1
Brock Boeser	32	1.92	Elias Pettersson	63%	-0.18	-1.01	-16.9
Patrik Laine	24	1.35	Bryan Little	58%	-4.29	-6.17	-112.5

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Meier has the best impacts on shot attempts and expected goals out of anybody on this list, and he out-produced everybody besides Jake Guentzel. Guentzel was well ahead of him in points, but that was with far more minutes, and almost all of them coming with Crosby. Meier's primary point rate was actually higher than Guentzel's, and while I do place some value on secondary assists, it's worth looking back at 2016-2017 Conor Sheary and mentioning that Crosby can inflate a player's secondary assists. Meier was also tied for the league lead in 5-on-5 playoff points before his team was eliminated. Point is, if you want to win a game at 5-on-5, Timo Meier is the best player available, and he is better than some other players who were picked before him in this poll.

If you don't want to take him because of his low PP production, I can't argue too much with that, since he has added very little on the PP at this point in his career. But in that case, Huberdeau should still come well before Wheeler and should have come before Rantanen as well. Blake Wheeler and Mikko Rantanen both just don't positively impact the game enough at 5-on-5 to be going this high IMO.

 

[canuckinfuts]

Wheeler

 

[DaveG]

Tarasenko and Wheeler the best 2 on the board, add Teravainen

 

[izzy]

wheeler is definitely better than tank

 

[JoVel]

Wheeler definitely. Back to back 90 point seasons is pretty good stuff.

 

[Ace of Hades]

Wheeler and then Tarasenko.