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Take a look at the expert consensus top player rankings heading into the NHL Season.
Top 100 NHL Players of 2018–19: The Full List
Here are the Top First, we asked 16 of our NHL insiders to rank the top players in the league at this exact moment, and then we combined their individual lists to create a definitive master ranking. Earlier this week we gave you the first 50 , No. Today, at long last, we offer up the top 10 NHL players of the —19 season. See below for the cream of the crop.
Kucherov has seemingly improved with each passing season. The Russian winger reached the point mark for the first time in —18, notching 39 goals and emerging as a dark-horse Hart Trophy candidate. Doughty does it all.
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He can spring his forwards with crisp outlets passes but loves to jump up into the rush as well. He cuts off angles well, blocks shots, intercepts passes and makes an impact playing on either side of the ice. What a season it was for the Great Eight. He scored his th goal, vaulting all the way to 19th on the all-time list. He won his seventh Rocket Richard Trophy.
Oh, and, in case you somehow forgot, he finally claimed that elusive first Stanley Cup while leading all playoff performers with 15 markers. Now on the back half of his career, the soon-to-be year-old is showing no signs of slowing down offensively. That bodes well for the Caps. All the Kings captain did after his worst regular season as an NHLer was respond with his best.
Year over year, Kopitar spun 12 goals into a career-high 35, and 52 points into He won the Selke and finished third in Hart voting, and may have fetched even more votes — West Coasters believe — if more members of the hockey media were on Pacific Time. At 30, Kopitar is the all-situations centre youngsters should aspire to be. This summer, L.
Erik Karlsson , D, Ottawa Senators. At 28, he has a string of all-star years ahead — no matter where he ends up playing. His newfound chemistry with linemate Mikko Rantanen was a treat for hockey fans and a nightmare for opposing goalies as MacKinnon found the back of the net 39 times. The smooth-skating centreman almost added to his trophy cabinet, too, with his name in the MVP conversation all year long.
The smooth-skating Swede has amassed 33 goals and points for the offensively inclined Bolts over his last two campaigns, that latter mark ranking as the second-highest among all defencemen in that span, and 29th-best among all NHLers. Not coincidentally, his Lightning have made a similar recent push for greatness.
Top 100 NHL Players of 2018–19: Best of the rest
Evgeni Malkin , C, Pittsburgh Penguins. While somewhat lax defensively, Malkin is a pure terror on offence and comes up big when it matters. He now has 62 goals and career points in the post-season. Sidney Crosby , C, Pittsburgh Penguins. At 30 years old and with every trophy and medal under the sun already on his resumé, Crosby still managed to break new ground last year — he played a full 82 games for the first time in his year career.
In fact, the only players with more even-strength points than Crosby in the past three seasons are Connor McDavid and Patrick Kane. Think of Mario back when.