Top ten players for each franchise?

[BrockLobster]

1. Potvin
2. Bossy
3. Trottier
4. Smith
5. Gillies
6. Nystrom
7. Lafontaine
8. Turgeon
9. Tonelli
10. Tavares

HM: Palffy, K. Jonsson, Morrow, Barzal

 

[djboos22]

I’d have the same top 3:

1. Ron Francis
2. Rod Brind’Amour
3. Eric Staal

But a bit different after that:

4. Cam Ward
5. Kevin Dineen
6. Mark Howe (influenced by the WHA years)
7. Glen Wesley
8. Justin Williams
9. Arturs Irbe
10. Pat Verbeek

What’s crazy is how many current players could very easily end up on this list, considering the age of the franchise. It’s not hard at all to see Aho/Svechnikov/Slavin on there in a few years, and even a guy like Jordan Staal is kind of creeping up on it.

Insane as it sounds, the Justin Faulk trade helped avoid an awkward situation in a couple of years when he would have caught RBA and Dineen in tenure, while also holding all the significant records for a D-man.

I agree with your list. However, I still go back and forth with Ward and Staal. I like how you included Irbe.

I mean one more deep playoff run and Aho/Svech/Slavin are right there already.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I agree with your list. However, I still go back and forth with Ward and Staal. I like how you included Irbe.

I mean one more deep playoff run and Aho/Svech/Slavin are right there already.

Yeah, Ward and Staal are really close. In some ways Ward was more of a "Canes guy"... certainly that seems the case now that Eric has team-hopped a bit, but I think it was the case even back in their primes.

I rank Staal a little higher here mainly because he spent quite a bit more time as a leaguewide-relevant player, wore the C, and had a big impact on team culture with the whole brothers thing. Cam was just always back there, steady eddie, while Eric was a bit higher profile. But it really is close.

 

[ESH]

Yep, comes down to Stevens vs. Johansson then

Hard to believe that actually seems like an argument for anyone

I could maybe see arguments for Carlson and Gonchar but Stevens feels pretty firmly the 2nd best Caps defenseman ever

 

[The Panther]

Joe Sakic
Patrick Roy
Peter Forsberg
Nathan MacKinnon
Peter Stastny
Adam Foote
Milan Hejduk
Michel Goulet
Anton Stastny
Alex Tanguay

Are these in order? I'm not seeing MacKinnon above Stastny yet, or Hejduk or Foote above Goulet. Not sure Roy should be above Forsberg or Stastny either, as the team got only half his career.

 

[djboos22]

1. Ron Francis
2. Rod Brind’Amour
3. Eric Staal
4. Cam Ward
5. Kevin Dineen
6. Glen Wesley
7. Justin Williams
8. Arturs Irbe
9. Pat Verbeek
10. Erik Cole

Soon...Aho

 

[SCampo98]

Clancy
Apps
Broda
Horton
Mahovlich
Bower
Keon
Sittler
Salming
Sundin

Goodness, I looked at this and wondered where Conacher, Primeau, and Butcher were, but I can't justify replacing any of the players on your list with them. The only change I think I'd make would be replacing Broda with Kennedy. No disrespect to Broda at all, just a bunch of respect for Kennedy.

 

[DeysArena]

Goodness, I looked at this and wondered where Conacher, Primeau, and Butcher were, but I can't justify replacing any of the players on your list with them. The only change I think I'd make would be replacing Broda with Kennedy. No disrespect to Broda at all, just a bunch of respect for Kennedy.

Most people seem to favour Kennedy over Broda.

Conacher was one of the last people removed from the list.

 

[Bluesguru]

Lemieux
Crosby
Malkin
Jagr
Francis
Letang
Kehoe
Fleury
Stevens
Barrasso

Really want Coffey on there to better represent defensemen, but don't think his Pens career makes the cut.

Pronovost should be in over Stevens. Look who Kevin played with plus those big years was generated when scoring was league high. Pronovost > Stevens