HFBoards Top 31 NHL Wingers - #18

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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%
#15	Vladimir Tarasenko	27			76	33	35	68	35.7%
#16	Jonathan Huberdeau	26			82	30	62	92	43.0%
#17	Jamie Benn	30			78	27	26	53	28.8%
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Evgenii Dadonov
Nikolaj Ehlers
Mikael Granlund
Clayton Keller
Anthony Mantha
Jonathan Marchessault
Gustav Nyquist
Zach Parise
Sam Reinhart
Reilly Smith
Mats Zuccarello

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[Filthy Dangles]

I’ll go with the guy who had a god awful year by his standards and still scored 30 goals, something a lot of players only dream of, Laine

 

[pekkaspecker]

Definitely Forsberg here

 

[crazyfisherman]

Its gonna be baaaad if Forsberg go ahead of tkachuk

 

[Sasso09]

Tkachuk
Forsberg
DeBrincat
Radulov
Voracek

My next 5

 

[Lebowski]

I think Radulov has arguably been better than Benn since joining the Stars.

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Tkachuk pretty easily

 

[n00bxQb]

Lots of centres on this list.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Lots of centres on this list.

Who? Draisaitl plays on McDavid's wing, and Giroux on Couturier's. Just because NHL.com lists them as Cs doesn't mean that's where they actually play.

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Also i'd say add Marchessault

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

Tkachuk/Forsberg

 

[Dominance]

Add Marchesseault, Gallagher, Bailey, and Niederreiter.

 

[FromRussiaWithLove]

Radulov gets my vote

 

[penguindog]

Voted Radulov. Hope to see Kessel go soon

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Nobody on this list has shown they're capable of having the season Tkachuk had on both sides of the puck. Crazy that this board just voted a 30 year old player with 53 points over him

 

[Snippit]

Should be Tkachuk

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Nobody on this list has shown they're capable of having the season Tkachuk had on both sides of the puck. Crazy that this board just voted a 30 year old player with 53 points over him

Timo Meier just had a better season than Tkachuk on both sides of the puck.

 

[Rhaegar Targaryen]

Timo Meier just had a better season than Tkachuk on both sides of the puck.

Well, that's not true. Not taking away from Meier but he was definitely a step or two below Tkachuk

 

[Ace of Hades]

Would've taken Radulov over Benn, since he's the better player than the latter.

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Well, that's not true. Not taking away from Meier but he was definitely a step or two below Tkachuk

Outside of power play points, there really isn’t any argument for that.

 

[crazyfisherman]

Outside of power play points, there really isn’t any argument for that.

Better corsi and 2 less EV points, yep, definitely no arguments at all

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Classic case of an obvious answer (Tkachuk) and people voting for someone else to either spite him or look like you know more than you do

 

[amnesiac]

Kessel, 82 pts and 92 pts past 2 seasons, and didnt play with Sid or Malkin 5 on 5. Hasnt missed a game since 09-10!

add Pacioretty and Lee

 

[wetcoast]

Its gonna be baaaad if Forsberg go ahead of tkachuk

I agree maybe alot of people don't watch Tkachuk and can see what he does besides points to help his team win every night?

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Better corsi and 2 less EV points, yep, definitely no arguments at all

In terms of play driving, they were about equal on the defensive side of things and Meier was significantly better on the offensive side of things.

I'm also guessing you're pulling your data from NHL.com, which counts empty net situations as "even strength". Tkachuk scored 4 points with an empty net and 7 points against an empty net, where as Meier only scored 2 points with an empty net and 4 points against an empty net. Drop those empty net points from each player's stats, and use true even strength situations, and Meier has 49 even strength points while Tkachuk has 42.

Or, look at just 5-on-5, where Meier had 47 points and Tkachuk had 41. That is a 15% difference.

And if you still think there's any argument, take a look at how how they each fared in the playoffs.