Top 10 non-NHLers

[Slitty]

Who are, in your opinion, the top 10 players not currently playing in the NHL. This includes kids in the North American minor leagues, former NHLers in Europe, and overage prospects all over the world! In other words, who are the top 10 players who deserve to be in the NHL, but arent.

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[Kaizer]

Malkin and 9 others

 

[VanCanuck]

Malkin and 9 others

plus Alex Semin

 

[Corto]

Malkin
Morozov
Zinovjev
Sushinsky
Reichel

Top-5 anyway...

 

[gars59]

latendresse

 

[Fan.At]

Chistov
Hudler
Kallio
Kharitonov
Korolyuk
Kopitar
Kraft
Liv
Malkin
Morozov
Nummelin
Ryan
Schremp
Semin
Strbak
Yushkevich

more than ten, but i guess those are the best ones...

 

[Robertsson 4-ever]

Hmm, Kenny Jönsson, Marcus Ragnarsson and Jörgen Jönsson could all play in the NHL if they wanted to.

Christian Berglund is a guy who is performing really well in Schweiz and on the swedish national team. He's a guy for the NHL as well IMO.

Others:
Maxim Sushinsky
Vladimir Orszagh
Evgeny Malkin
Alexander Semin

 

[mattihp]

As a Finn I'd have to say Kallio has no business on such a list. Post-concussion he's been a shadow of himself and plays softer than a marshmallow. Excellent technical skills, for sure, but not even close to the top-20 players of the russian league.

Malkin
Semin
Sushinsky
Kharitonov
Orszagh
K.Jönsson
Zinovjev
Berglund
Bartecko

are some names that come to mind...

 

[Chootoi]

Who are, in your opinion, the top 10 players not currently playing in the NHL.

rick nash

 

[thestonedkoala]

Voloshenko has to be up there. He's up in the top of the AHL...

 

[GentlemanOfLeisure]

jere karalati

 

[Spooky371*]

Two years ago I would say Mark Streit, but now..
He completly dominating Switz league..

And what the name of a Finnish player who try his shot at Nashville but that never work ? Hes always one of top 5 scorer in SM-Liiga..

 

[Vikke]

Magnus Kahnberg could be on the list, too.

 

[salty justice]

Sergei Berezin



Malkin

the rest

 

[Pepper]

Karalahti is probably a top5 d-man not in NHL, if not for NHL's idiotic bible-thumping rehab program he would most likely still be playing in north-america.

 

[Maithz]

Two years ago I would say Mark Streit, but now..
He completly dominating Switz league..

And what the name of a Finnish player who try his shot at Nashville but that never work ? Hes always one of top 5 scorer in SM-Liiga..

Ville Peltonen ? but actually he play in Swiss league for Lugano he try in SJ too drafted 3rd round 58th overall in 1993

 

[WADEugottaBELAKthat]

Grigorenko is putting up impressive numbers this year. It looks like he's back.

 

[The Kingslayer]

Ville Peltonen ? but actually he play in Swiss league for Lugano he try in SJ too drafted 3rd round 58th overall in 1993

He had a good showing at the World Cup. My list includes:

Malkin
Shremp
Grigorenko
Hudler
Kraft

 

[kingpest19]

Karalahti is probably a top5 d-man not in NHL, if not for NHL's idiotic bible-thumping rehab program he would most likely still be playing in north-america.

I could have understood them suspending him had he been using heroin again but the fact that he couldnt even have a couple of beers when he wanted to me is a joke. I guess after fuhr and probert and their battles they figured they had to toughen up the program. Would be nice to see him back in the NHL

 

[Buumbaclat22]

OLEG PETROV!!
hehe

 

[psycho_dad*]

Just to add few more for debate....

Hentunen
Boumedienne

 

[Maithz]

in nets , is Price could be consider ? I know he had a bad start with tricity but he had goals very well in his last games .

 

[Transported Upstater]

Best players outside of NHL...

If you are including Carey Price, I sincerely hope that is due to a misunderstanding or language problem, because I cannot imagine any other legitimate reasons for bringing him up.

 

[The Mars Volchenkov]

Alexei Kaigorodov, 2nd in the RSL in scoring last year, would have made the Sens this year if not for Russian contract.

 

[Zine]

GOALTENDERS
Roman Cechmanek
Fredrik Norrena

DEFENSEMEN
Karel Rachunek
Jere Karalahti
Petteri Nummelin
Kenny Jonsson
Marcus Ragnarsson
Dmitri Yushkevich

FORWARDS
Robert Reichel
Jan Hlavac
Ville Peltonen
Jukka Hentunen
Evgeny Malkin
Maxim Sushinsky
Sergei Zinoviev
Alexander Semin
Alexei Morozov
Alexander Korolyuk
Jorgen Jonsson
Andreas Johansson