HFBoards Top 31 NHL Wingers - #15

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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%
#14	Blake Wheeler	32			82	20	71	91	46.7%
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Suggested Additions:
Cam Atkinson
Evgenii Dadonov
Mikael Granlund
Clayton Keller
Elias Lindholm
Anthony Mantha
Jonathan Marchessault
Gustav Nyquist
Zach Parise
Sam Reinhart
Reilly Smith
Mats Zuccarello

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[Stewie Griffin]

Was stuck debating between Huberdeau, Tarasenko, and Forsberg. Ended up going Tarasenko in the end cause of his shot.

 

[TheGuiminator]

Unpopular but I think Guentzel is a top 15 winger

 

[Clint Eastwood]

Phil The Thrill

 

[bobholly39]

Unpopular but I think Guentzel is a top 15 winger

I like Guentzel and in a vacuum the idea of calling him a top 15 winger sounds ok to me - but I can't justify putting a player who scores 76 points playing on Crosby's wing full time (and on the loaded Pitt power play) over a winger who scored 92 points on a worst team - Huberdeau.

 

[HyPnOtiK]

Debrincat then Tarasenko

 

[TheGuiminator]

I like Guentzel and in a vacuum the idea of calling him a top 15 winger sounds ok to me - but I can't justify putting a player who scores 76 points playing on Crosby's wing full time (and on the loaded Pitt power play) over a winger who scored 92 points on a worst team - Huberdeau.

That’s why I think people won’t consider Guentzel a top winger because they see him as a product of Sidney Crosby.

And by the way, Guentzel doesn’t play on the first PP unit, his PP minutes are very limited and he still managed to score 40 goals last season. Not to mention that he has a very impressive playoff resume so far and he’s a pretty good overall player.
Huberdeau being on a worst team doesn’t really affect his individual stats, cause he’s still playing top minutes every game (and on the first PP unit), something Guentzel didn’t really have the chance to do yet.

 

[CheckingLineCenter]

I like Guentzel and in a vacuum the idea of calling him a top 15 winger sounds ok to me - but I can't justify putting a player who scores 76 points playing on Crosby's wing full time (and on the loaded Pitt power play) over a winger who scored 92 points on a worst team - Huberdeau.

He doesn’t play on the PP1, and the Pens play their PP2 the least out of anyone leaguewide.

Guentzel is a complimentary player, but he’s not a product of Crosby. Put him with any 1C in the league and he’d be extremely productive. Truly one of the smartest players I’ve ever watched. Oozes hockey IQ.

That said I took Tarasenko here. But Jake should be top 20 imo.

 

[Zamuz]

Huberdeau then Radulov

 

[Merrrlin]

I'll take Tkachuk here. I watched that dude just dominate games last season.

 

[avalancheboi]

I'll take Tkachuk here. I watched that dude just dominate games last season.

Meh he was pretty invisible in our series against the flames. He’s still a ways out in this ranking imo.

 

[LetsGoBLUES91]

Heart says Tarasenko, but honestly after 1 down year I'm not going to dump on Benn just yet. He's a PPG power forward. If I'm drafting a team from scratch and the guys above are my option, I'm taking him. At least for another year or two.

 

[blinds]

Benn, Tarasenko and Huberdeau should be next in some order. It's hard to decide between them, but I'll take Tarasenko for his goal scoring.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

I like Guentzel and in a vacuum the idea of calling him a top 15 winger sounds ok to me - but I can't justify putting a player who scores 76 points playing on Crosby's wing full time (and on the loaded Pitt power play) over a winger who scored 92 points on a worst team - Huberdeau.

Just to clarify, Guentzel didn't get top PP unit minutes other than if Hornqvist or Malkin was hurt. A healthy Pens' top unit didn't include Guentzel, so most of what he did last year was at 5on5.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Tarasenko
Tkachuk
Benn
Huby

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Meh he was pretty invisible in our series against the flames. He’s still a ways out in this ranking imo.

Night and day difference between Timo Meier and Matthew Tkachuk Vs. the Avalanche.

Just to clarify, Guentzel didn't get top PP unit minutes other than if Hornqvist or Malkin was hurt. A healthy Pens' top unit didn't include Guentzel, so most of what he did last year was at 5on5.

Guentzel had the best 5-on-5 production of anybody left on this list and quite a few players above him, but it’s fair to be skeptical of how much of that production is really his own doing after seeing what Crosby once did for the 5-on-5 production of a player like Conor Sheary.

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Tarasenko then Huberdeau

Add Atkinson or E.Lindholm

 

[thadd]

Tkachuk. Puts up a ton of points while driving the opposition insane.

 

[LaMasquerade]

Here's hoping for Laine to bounce back

 

[Ace of Hades]

Add Atkinson.

 

[Prarievarg]

Huberdeau. Add Keller.

 

[Binister]

Huberdeau, Benn and Tarasenko. Then it starts to get tough. Probably Laine.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

Guentzel had the best 5-on-5 production of anybody left on this list and quite a few players above him, but it’s fair to be skeptical of how much of that production is really his own doing after seeing what Crosby once did for the 5-on-5 production of a player like Conor Sheary.

Not saying people should select him right now. I was just clarifying for that poster who listed playing on the top PP as one of the reasons his totals may be inflated that he didn't actually play on the top unit, not unless either Hornqvist or Malkin were injured.

Also, I don't think people should just automatically assume Guentzel's success is because he plays with Crosby. Guentzel's the first winger in Crosby's entire career that's scored 40 goals next to him. So clearly Guentzel's shown he's got the goal scoring ability to convert those chances. Also, people overlook the fact that Crosby himself benefited from Guentzel this past season. Crosby hadn't scored 100 points since his Art Ross year in 2014, yet reached that total last year in large part because of how good both of them were for each other.