Rank the Conn Smythe winners since 2005

[Blackhawk93]

For reference of who the winners were:

2006 - Cam Ward
2007 - Scott Niedermayer
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2011 - Tim Thomas
2012 - Jonathan Quick
2013 - Patrick Kane
2014 - Justin Williams
2015 - Duncan Keith
2016 - Sidney Crosby
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2018 - Alex Ovechkin

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[Fenway]

Tim Thomas in 2011 stole the Cup.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Best = Malkin 2009
HM: Zetterberg 2008, Keith 2015

Worst = Ward 2006, Niedermayer 2007, Crosby 2016

 

[sr edler]

Tim Thomas in 2011 stole the Cup.

Bruins shell-shocked the Canucks in most of their wins while the Sedins mostly threw soft muffins at Thomas from outside Seidenberg and Chara. Bruins would have won that series with Antti Niemi.

Malkin, Keith, Zetterberg and Quick are my favorites.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2015 - Duncan Keith
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2012 - Jonathan Quick
2011 - Tim Thomas
2018 - Alex Ovechkin
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2013 - Patrick Kane
2007 - Scott Niedermayer
2014 - Justin Williams
2006 - Cam Ward
2016 - Sidney Crosby

always weird to remember that pat kane won the conn smythe in what was only his third best cup run.

 

[Canucks1096]

2009 Malkin
2008 Zetterberg
2015 Keith
2018 Ovechkin
2017 Crosby
2010 Toews
2012 Quick
2011 Thomas
2014 Williams
2013 Kane
2006 Ward
2007 Niedermayer
2016 Crosby

 

[ChiefWiggum]

2012 quick doesn't get enough love

 

[Epsilon]

2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2015 - Duncan Keith
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2012 - Jonathan Quick
2011 - Tim Thomas
2018 - Alex Ovechkin
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2013 - Patrick Kane
2014 - Justin Williams
2006 - Cam Ward
2016 - Sidney Crosby
2007 - Scott Niedermayer

 

[quoipourquoi]

2012 - Jonathan Quick
2011 - Tim Thomas
2015 - Duncan Keith
2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2014 - Justin Williams
2018 - Alex Ovechkin
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2006 - Cam Ward
2007 - Scott Niedermayer
2013 - Patrick Kane
2016 - Sidney Crosby

 

[K Fleur]

2009 Malkin
2015 Keith
2012 Quick
2008 Zetterberg
2011 Thomas
2017 Crosby
2018 Ovechkin
2010 Toews
2014 Williams
2013 Kane
2006 Ward
2007 Niedermayer
2016 Crosby

 

[daver]

2012 - Jonathan Quick
2011 - Tim Thomas
2015 - Duncan Keith
2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2014 - Justin Williams
2018 - Alex Ovechkin
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2006 - Cam Ward
2007 - Scott Niedermayer
2013 - Patrick Kane
2016 - Sidney Crosby

Really?

 

[quoipourquoi]

Really?

I’m not even the first person here who put 2010 Toews over 2017 Crosby. Obviously Crosby had a better Final, but Toews slaughtered the West in 2010. Down 2-1 to Nashville, he scored 25 points in an 11-2 run to win the Campbell Bowl.

What he did to Roberto Luongo and Vancouver in Game 4 to take a 3-1 series lead was, in particular, disgusting. By comparison, Crosby wasn’t even in the lineup when Pittsburgh took a 3-1 series lead over their biggest challenge: the Washington Capitals.

Toews is a weird run to evaluate, I grant you. It’d be like if Vegas somehow won against Washington while Fleury’s performance was what it was - can you still give him a Conn Smythe?

 

[VanIslander]

I loathe splitting hairs... but some are clearly in different categories...

No doubt whatsoever:

2008 Henrik Zetterberg
2009 Evgeni Malkin

Totally scoffed/doubted:

2006 Cam Ward
2016 Sidney Crosby

I think Ovechkin's 2018 postseason is MUCH closer to the former pair than the latter pair.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Top end: Malkin in 09, Quick in 12

I guess the bottom end would be the ones that didn't deserve it, right? So that's Ward in 06, Thomas in 11, Williams in 14, Crosby in 16, Ovechkin in 18...

 

[East Coast Icestyle]

Justin williams smythe is weird in that the kings had 3-4 very deserving players and I can't choose which I'd rather have it than him, but I don't outright think it should be him

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

09 Malkin
15 Keith
08 Zetterberg
12 Quick
11 Thomas
18 Ovechkin
17 Crosby
10 Toews
14 Williams
13 Kane
06 Ward
07 Niedermayer
16 Crosby

 

[ESH]

2012 quick doesn't get enough love

Quick is a weird one for me because you can’t argue with the results and numbers, but watching the Kings during that run it never seemed like Quick had to steal a game. The 2012 Kings are still the best defensive team I’ve watched win the Cup. Almost flawless, everyone knew what they were doing and where they had to be.

 

[GlitchMarner]

Quick is a weird one for me because you can’t argue with the results and numbers, but watching the Kings during that run it never seemed like Quick had to steal a game. The 2012 Kings are still the best defensive team I’ve watched win the Cup. Almost flawless, everyone knew what they were doing and where they had to be.

1995 Devils?

 

[overg]

1995 Devils?

Oh come on. In that one game Fedorov almost broke through and created some offense. And in the other, Coffey was completely flying, right up until he scored on his own goal.

/still shudders at the memory as a Wings fan. That Devils team was a god-damned monster.

 

[ESH]

1995 Devils?

I wasn’t born yet

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Quick is a weird one for me because you can’t argue with the results and numbers, but watching the Kings during that run it never seemed like Quick had to steal a game. The 2012 Kings are still the best defensive team I’ve watched win the Cup. Almost flawless, everyone knew what they were doing and where they had to be.

funny that this is also how a lot of people view boston in games 3, 4, 6, and 7.

but stats

 

[The Panther]

For reference of who the winners were:

2006 - Cam Ward
2007 - Scott Niedermayer
2008 - Henrik Zetterberg
2009 - Evgeni Malkin
2010 - Jonathan Toews
2011 - Tim Thomas
2012 - Jonathan Quick
2013 - Patrick Kane
2014 - Justin Williams
2015 - Duncan Keith
2016 - Sidney Crosby
2017 - Sidney Crosby
2018 - Alex Ovechkin

The ones that sort-of stand out to me are Malkin in '09 and (to a lesser extent) Zetterberg in '08.

The rest seem to be brief one-offs (Ward), weak choices (Niedermayer), one random guy out of a pool of five or six equally deserving (Williams, Toews), or NHL-sponsored media narrative choices (Crosby '16, Ovechkin).

 

[Sentinel]

09 Malkin
08 Zetterberg
12 Quick
10 Toews
11 Thomas
14 Williams
15 Keith
18 Ovechkin
13 Kane
07 Niedermayer
17 Crosby
06 Ward
16 Crosby

 

[Laineux]

I guess the bottom end would be the ones that didn't deserve it, right? So that's Ward in 06, Thomas in 11, Williams in 14, Crosby in 16, Ovechkin in 18...

That's some huge reaching there trying to put Ovechkin's playoff run on the same level as Crosby's pathetic 16 Conn Smythe.

 

[Michael Farkas]

It was just a general list of players who should not have won it. I believe I had already stated (somewhere) that Ovechkin's '18 is better than Crosby's '16...but on a list of what-should-have-been non-winners, the need to differentiate is clearly not needed...