News Article: NHL player poll 2024

[Webster]

Interesting stuff on The Athletic, anonymous voting by the NHL players.
I'll include the winners first, then Wild players if mentioned.

Best player: Connor McDavid - 69% (Kaprizov - 1%)

Best goalie: Andrei Vasilevskiy - 44% (Fleury - 3%)

Most underrated player: Other - 22% (Eriksson Ek - 4%, Brodin - 2%, Kaprizov - 1%)

Player whose face you most want to punch: Nick Cousins - 29%
Ek isn't even mentioned, 2% don't like Fiala.

Best referee: Wes McCauley - 53%

Worst referee: Justin St Pierre - 29%

Best jersey: Chicago Blackhawks - 21% (Wild - 1%)

Best road city: Las Vegas - 25%

Worst road city: Winnipeg - 41% (St. Paul - 1%)

Good to see that the players don't dislike Eriksson Ek.
I too think Wild's home jersey sucks, road jersey is okay.

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[TaLoN]

Helps to have a link...

Anonymous NHL player poll 2024: Who's the best player? Most overrated? Best goalie? Worst road city?

Best goalie? Player you'd most like to punch? Best and worst refs? Favorite and least favorite road cities? Nearly 200 NHL players weigh in.

theathletic.com

 

[Digitalbooya]

Winnipeg being the worst road city warms my heart

 

[57special]

The very few people who didn't like St. Paul said that it was because they didn't like the hotel the team stayed at, rather than anything about the city. I would get that it would seem pretty small compared and de centralized compared to other places, though, unless they were open to grabbing an uber and going to MPLS.

OTT actually has a decent, historic downtown, but the arena is way out in the burbs. Sort of like Maple Grove.

 

[MuckOG]

The very few people who didn't like St. Paul said that it was because they didn't like the hotel the team stayed at, rather than anything about the city. I would get that it would seem pretty small compared and de centralized compared to other places, though, unless they were open to grabbing an uber and going to MPLS.

OTT actually has a decent, historic downtown, but the arena is way out in the burbs. Sort of like Maple Grove.

Don't visiting teams stay at the St Paul Hotel? It's a pretty nice place and just a quick walk across the park to the arena.

 

[57special]

Don't visiting teams stay at the St Paul Hotel? It's a pretty nice place and just a quick walk across the park to the arena.

Maybe some teams stay elsewhere, maybe that one player was annoyed at the service he got...who knows. It can be pretty arbitrary stuff, when the numbers are so small.