The Top 30 Players in the NHL (2018 Edition) - #12

[Brando]

Top 30 Players in the NHL

1. Connor McDavid
2. Sidney Crosby
3. Alexander Ovechkin
4. Evgeni Malkin
5. Erik Karlsson
6. Nikita Kucherov
7. Victor Hedman
8. Drew Doughty
9. Nathan MacKinnon
10. Patrice Bergeron
11. Patrick Kane

Pick someone you'd like me to add to the poll as well when you vote (including goalies).
If people are interested I may go up to 50.

Adds:
1 Giordano
0 Tarasenko
0 Pastrnak
0 Provorov
0 Nylander
1 Getzlaf
0 Laine
1 Kessel
0 Klingberg
0 Marner
0 Pietrangelo
0 Draisaitl
0 Holtby
2 Barzal
0 Josi
0 Jones
0 Gibson
0 Lundqvist
0 Rinne
0 Crawford
0 Backstrom

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[LordNeverLose]

Kopitar add Barzal (who outproduced Panarin, Gaudreau, Eichel, Benn, Seguin, Matthews, Kuznetsov, Tavares, Barkov, and Scheifele while being younger than all of them except Matthews).

 

[amnesiac]

Kopitar add Barzal (who outproduced Panarin, Gaudreau, Eichel, Benn, Seguin, Matthews, Kuznetsov, Tavares, Barkov, and Scheifele while being younger than all of them except Matthews).

he deserves to be there soon, but in no way does a great rookie season make him a top 20 player in this league.

Kopitar
add Kessel

 

[LordNeverLose]

he deserves to be there soon, but in no way does a great rookie season make him a top 20 player in this league.

Kopitar
add Kessel

And yet guys like Matthews and Eichel who have never done what he did in one season are in the poll (and getting votes in Matthews' case)

 

[amnesiac]

And yet guys like Matthews and Eichel who have never done what he did in one season are in the poll (and getting votes in Matthews' case)

whos to say Barzal wont be a 60 pt scorer over the next 5 years? THe point is hes only proven himself over one season, while Eichel and Matthews have proven themselves over several.

Once upon a time: Tyler Myers, Skinner, Landeskog, Huberdeau, MacKinnon, Ekblad all had great rookie seasons (all Calder winners too!), and didnt look as good for several seasons afterwards.

And I love Barzal, I think he'll be a top 20 player soon, but not after 1 season.

 

[Silky mitts]

Tavares add Giordano

 

[NetflixandPhil]

Hall add Getzlaf

 

[Ctrain2k]

whos to say Barzal wont be a 60 pt scorer over the next 5 years? THe point is hes only proven himself over one season, while Eichel and Matthews have proven themselves over several.

Once upon a time: Tyler Myers, Skinner, Landeskog, Huberdeau, MacKinnon, Ekblad all had great rookie seasons (all Calder winners too!), and didnt look as good for several seasons afterwards.

And I love Barzal, I think he'll be a top 20 player soon, but not after 1 season.

None of those guys had anywhere near the season Barzal did, I think the highest point total out of those guys was like 63 or something.

 

[Kamiccolo]

IMO Kopitar then Tavares

 

[Halla]

Tavares. TSN has had him as high as 4 and as low as 13 over the last 5 years, but he is coming off a big season
also can't blame this on a toronto bias as he was with the isles the entire time

https://www.tsn.ca/a-new-no-1-mcdavid-edges-crosby-in-tsn-s-top-50-player-poll-1.867210

 

[Halla]

IMO Kopitar then Tavares

its close. Kopitar has a HUGE year but it should be noted he had a 12g/52 pt stinker the year before and hadnt hit 80pts since 2010

 

[Skolman]

Tavares. TSN has had him as high as 4 and as low as 13 over the last 5 years, but he is coming off a big season
also can't blame this on a toronto bias as he was with the isles the entire time

https://www.tsn.ca/a-new-no-1-mcdavid-edges-crosby-in-tsn-s-top-50-player-poll-1.867210

Who cares?

 

[DitchMarner]

Hall deserves to go ahead of Tavares to be honest. Winning the Hart Trophy is no joke. MacKinnon's already up there and Hall has been at least as good in the last two seasons combined.

 

[Silky mitts]

Hall deserves to go ahead of Tavares to be honest. Winning the Hart Trophy is no joke. MacKinnon's already up there and Hall has been at least as good in the last two seasons combined.

The 5 seasons before last Tavares averaged more goals and points per game than Hall (than Mackinnon as well for the 4 previous seasons).

 

[CanadianSniper]

Giroux. 102 points.

 

[tony d]

Went with Tavares.

 

[DitchMarner]

The 5 seasons before last Tavares averaged more goals and points per game than Hall (than Mackinnon as well for the 4 previous seasons).

How far back are we going?

Five seasons ago, McDavid wasn't even an NHL'er.

I really don't get why MacKinnon is on the board and it looks like Hall won't be all that soon.

 

[StoneHands]

Giroux. 4 PPG seasons in the last 7 years including a 100+ and a 90+ point season. Add in being a good two-way player and I don't know why he's not getting more votes.