TheDevilMadeMe
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On The Move
Biggest movers between the Wingers Project & Wingers in the recently-completed Top-100 Project:
UP!
1) Patrick Kane: +∞
Not even a nominee in the Wingers Project- but that was done about half-a-dozen years ago. Top-100 Project placed him at 24 among Wingers, which even less than one short year later feels like it's STILL too low.
2) Anatoli Firsov: +9... from 26 to 17
3) Ovechkin: +4... was 9- is now 5-- moved around Bossy/Cook/Makarov/Lafleur; who all dipped one on account of this move.
4) Dickie Moore: +3. Went from 18 to 15, mostly at the expense of Mahovlich (who will be mentioned again in short order)... although he went around Selänne, also.
DOWN!
1) Cy Denneny: -4. Before- 17/After- 21. As Frank Nighbor's fortunes have risen...
2) Boris Mikhailov: -3. His dip is from 20 to 23- and I'm struggling to see reasons behind it. It's not like Kane went around him (although I understand the case that he may have by now). Firsov's comet blew by him- suppose I can see that. Kurri, too- but don't get that Brett Hull nosed ahead of him. There it is, though.
.... (and, as promised)
3) Frank Mahovlich: -2. Was 16, now 18... and probably hasn't fallen far enough for my taste. The Kane meteor looms...
4) Jarome Iginla: -2. earlier positioned at slot 24- and fell to 26 (based on the final Vote in the top-100 Project) and finished Top-100 as our "bubble boy." [Position 101.] Not understanding the case for St Louis over him.
Kane, Firsov, and Ovechkin all deserved to move up. Kane and Ovechkin because of what they did in recent years; Firsov because of convincing information about him in the HOH Top non-NHL Europeans project.
Dickie Moore rose at least in part because of vote splitting and bad procedure. That round, there was a clear top 4, with nobody else getting a majority vote to be added, but we slavishly added 5 names anyway, and Moore had marginally more votes than the guy below him. We should have just added 4 guys that round and punted Moore to the next round for further discussion.
As for the fallers, Denneny and Mahovlich deserved it. Mikhailov kind of suffered from suddenly looking inferior to Firsov. I agree that Iginla finishing below St Louis is nonsensical - he should have finished in a similar range to Mikhailov, as he did in the earlier project.