dudacek's Sabrespace Offseason NHL Player Ranking Game Thread

[North Buffalo]

Benn, Scheifele, Oshie

Hoffman, JVR, Sheary

Zetterberg, Little

 

Shattenkirk, Gardener, Sharp, Scandella

Edited August 11, 2017 by North Buffalo

[Randall Flagg]

I'm going to post the list of 200 players that I made when this thread started, and put where those players fell on our list next to their position in parenthesis, just because I feel like it.

 

 

 

1.) Sidney Crosby (2)

2.) Erik Karlsson (4)

3.) Connor McDavid (1)

4.) Victor Hedman (14)

5.) Evgeni Malkin (11)

6.) Drew Doughty (19)

7.) Patrick Kane (3)

8.) John Tavares (12)

9.) Ryan Getzlaf (27)

10.) Vladimir Tarasenko (16)

11.) Brent Burns (5)

12.) Nicklas Backstrom (17)

13.) Tyler Seguin (24)

14.) Jamie Benn (13)

15.) Aleksander Barkov (31)

16.) Ryan Suter (33)

17.) Steven Stamkos (20)

18.) Oliver Ekman-Larsson (34)

19.) Carey Price (25)

20.) Jack Eichel (7)

21.) PK Subban (21) NAILED IT

22.) Brayden Holtby (23) 

23.) Nikita Kucherov (would be about 10 spots higher on a re-rank) (6) 

24.) Duncan Keith (28)

25.) Alexander Ovechkin (8)

26.) Mark Scheifele (18)

27.) Auston Matthews (10)

28.) Alex Pietrangelo (57)

29.) Patrice Bergeron (30)

30.) Roman Josi (35)

31.) Taylor Hall (64)

32.) Anze Kopitar (40)

33.) Shea Weber (55) 

34.) Claude Giroux (63)

35.) Brad Marchand (22)

36.) Ryan O'Reilly (47)

37.) Artemi Panarin (26)

38.) Johnny Gaudreau (42)

39.) Filip Forsberg (45)

40.) Sergei Bobrovsky (37)

41.) Marc-Edouard Vlasic (84)

42.) Kris Letang (53)

43.) David Pastrnak (44) 

44.) Blake Wheeler (52)

45.) TJ Brodie (87)

46.) Ryan Kesler (94)

47.) Anton Stralman (83)

48.) Seth Jones (56) 

49.) Leon Draisaitl (9)

50.) Evgeny Kuznetsov (66)

51.) Mark Stone (112)

52.) Ryan Johansen (50)

53.) Colton Parayko (77)

54.) Corey Schneider (90)

55.) Patrik Laine (15)

56.) Mitch Marner (65)

57.) Dustin Byfuglien (39)

58.) Ryan Ellis (124)

59.) Phil Kessel (29)

60.) Jakob Voracek (51)

61.) Cam Fowler (38)

62.) Jonathan Toews (60)

63.) Mark Giordano (81)

64.) Joe Pavelski (36)

65.) Jeff Carter (70)

66.) Oscar Klefbom (114)

67.) Hampus Lindholm (61)

68.) Brandon Saad (115)

69.) Aaron Ekblad (95)

70.) Logan Couture (79)

71.) Rickard Rakell (117)

72.) Rasmus Ristolainen (76)

73.) Nikolaj Ehlers (32)

74.) Wayne Simmonds (75)

75.) John Klingberg (82)

76.) Ryan McDonagh (74)

77.) Corey Perry (88)

78.) David Krejci (147)

79.) William Nylander (72)

80.) Nicklas Hjalmarsson (132)

81.) Sean Monahan (62)

82.) Alex Wennberg (97)

83.) Jaccob Slavin (110)

84.) Jonathan Huberdeau (98)

85.) Nazem Kadri (127)

86.) Mikael Granlund (49)

87.) Adam Larsson (154)

88.) Jake Muzzin (104)

89.) Cam Atkinson (71)

90.) Max Pacioretty (58)

91.) Jeff Skinner (67)

92.) Nick Leddy (96)

93.) John Carlson (111)

94.) Jakob Silfverberg (118)

95.) Bo Horvat (120)

96.) Jonathan Drouin (68)

97.) Gabriel Landeskog (93)

98.) Mattias Ekholm (107)

99.) Jordan Staal (177) 

100.) Justin Faulk (126)

101.) Corey Crawford (NO RANKING)

102.) Jason Spezza (178)

103.) Brian Little (138)

104.) Matt Murray (46)

105.) Nick Foligno (148)

106.) Mats Zuccarello (142)

107.) Andrej Sekera (139)

108.) Dougie Hamilton (80)

109.) Brendan Gallagher (NO RANKING)

110.) Alex Radulov (99)

111.) Jared Spurgeon (129)

112.) Devan Dubnyk (172)

113.) Derek Stepan (157)

114.) Mika Zibanejad (144)

115.) Vincent Trocheck (160)

116.) Matt Duchene (91)

117.) Torey Krug (54)

118.) Ondrej Palat (151)

119.) Viktor Arvidsson (101)

120.) Nathan MacKinnon (86)

121.) James Neal (161)

122.) Chris Kreider (85)

123.) Kyle Okposo (106)

124.) TJ Oshie (43)

125.) Tuukka Rask (102)

126.) Alex Galchenyuk (100)

127.) Alexander Steen (NO RANKING)

128.) Mike Hoffman (48)

129.) Andrei Burakovsky (159)

130.) Cody Ceci (NO RANKING)

131.) Matt Tkachuk (125)

132.) Erik Johnson (NO RANKING)

133.) David Savard (NO RANKING)

134.) Mikko Koivu (NO RANKING) - for a 58 point Selke finalist, really??

135.) Tyler Toffoli (169)

136.) Joe Thornton (141)

137.) Brian Dumoulin (NO RANKING)

138.) Zach Werenski (69)

139.) Jaden Schwartz (134)

140.)  Max Domi (145)

141.) Jonas Brodin (NO RANKING)

142.)  Cam Talbot (NO RANKING)

143.) Sebastian Aho (105)

144.) Dylan Larkin (NO RANKING)

145.) Kyle Turris (NO RANKING)

146.) JVR (73) 

147.) Jacob Trouba (121)

148.) Ben Bishop (NO RANKING)

149.) Evander Kane (109)

150.) RNH (149)

151.) Boone Jenner (NO RANKING)

152.) Martin Jones (NO RANKING)

153.) Morgan Rielly (180) 

154.) Danny DeKeyser (171) 

155.) Derek Brassard (NO RANKING)

156.) Mikko Rantanen (NO RANKING)

157.) Henrik Zetterberg (108)

158.) Tyler Johnson (164)

159.) Jake Gardiner (133)

160.)  Sam Reinhart (59)

161.) Brayden Schenn (170)

162.) Conor Sheary (78)

163.) Frans Nielsen (NO RANKING)

164.) Radko Gudas (NO RANKING)

165.) Henrik Lundqvist (146)

166.) Patric Hornqvist (166) NAILED IT

167.) Nikita Zaitsev (NO RANKING)

168.) Jonathan Marchessault (NO RANKING)

169.) David Backes (NO RANKING)

170.) Victor Rask NO RANKING)

171.) Eric Staal (89)

172.) Justin Williams (NO RANKING)

173.) Dmitri Orlov (NO RANKING)

174.) Brett Pesce (NO RANKING) 

175.) Henrik Sedin (NO RANKING)

176.) Daniel Sedin (NO RANKING)

177.) Nino Niederreiter (150)

178.) Tomas Hertl (NO RANKING)

179.) Kevin Hayes (NO RANKING)

180.) Adam Henrique NO RANKING)

181.) Jay Bouwmeester (NO RANKING)

182.) Sean Couturier (NO RANKING)

183.) Troy Stetcher (NO RANKING)

184.) Paul Martin (NO RANKING)

185.) John Gibson (156)

186.) JT Miller (NO RANKING)

187.) Brady Skjei (NO RANKING)

188.) Milan Lucic (92)

189.) Chris Tanev (NO RANKING)

190.) Ivan Provorov (116)

191.) Andrei Markov (KHL) (NO RANKING)

192.) Sam Bennett (NO RANKING)

193.) Zach Parise (136)

194.) Tomas Tatar (NO RANKING)

195.) Zach Boychuk (NO RANKING)

196.) Andrew Cogliano (NO RANKING)

197.) Jordan Eberle (135)

198.) Bobby Ryan (NO RANKING)

199.) Tyler Bozak (NO RANKING)

200.) Marcus Johansson (165)

 

Honorable mentions: Scandella, Nash, Edmundson, Braun, Frolik, Rieder, Manson, Dvorak

 

Players the board had in their top 180 that I didn't have in my top 200: Jake Guentzel (41), Kevin Shattenkirk (103), Shayne Gostisbehere (113), Sam Gagner (119), Jaromir Jagr (122), Pekka Rinne (123), Anthony Duclair (128), Jake Allen (130), Justin Schultz (131), Tyson Barrie (137), Ryan Strome (140), Jake McCabe (143), Thomas Vanek (152), Vasilevsky (153), Anders Lee (155), Anthony Mantha (158), Sami Vatanen (162), Patrick Sharp (163), Clayton Keller (167), Marco Scandella (168), Nico Hischier (173), Keith Yandle (174), Matt Niskanen (175), Rick Nash (176), Paul Stastny (179)

My rankings of centers: Crosby, McDavid, Malkin, Tavares, Getzlaf, Backstrom, Seguin, Barkov, Stamkos, Eichel, Scheifele, Matthews, Bergeron, Kopitar, Giroux, O'Reilly, Kesler, Draisaitl, Kuznetsov, Johansen, Toews, Pavelski, Carter, Couture, Rakell, Krejci, Monahan, Wennberg, Kadri, Granlund, Horvat, J. Staal, Spezza, Little, Stepan, Zibanejad, Trocheck, Duchene, MacKinnon, Galchenyuk, Koivu, Thornton, Turris, RNH, Jenner, Brassard, Zetterberg, T. Johnson, S. Reinhart, B. Schenn, Nielsen, V. Rask, E. Staal, H. Sedin, Hertl, K. Hayes, Henrique, Couturier, Bennett, Bozak

 

My rankings of defence: Karlsson, Hedman, Doughty, Burns, Suter, OEL, Subban, Keith, Pietrangelo, Josi, Weber, Vlasic, Letang, Brodie, Stralman, Jones, Parayko, Byfuglien, Ellis, Fowler, Giordano, Klefbom, H. Lindholm, Ekblad, Ristolainen, Klingberg, McDonagh, Hjalmarsson, Slavin, Larsson, Muzzin, Leddy, Carlson, Ekholm, Faulk, Sekera, Hamilton, Spurgeon, Krug, Ceci, E. Johnson, Savard, Dumoulin, Werenski, Brodin, Trouba, Rielly, DeKeyser, Gardiner, Gudas, Zaitsev, Orlov, Pesce, Bouwmeester, Stetcher, Martin, Skjei, Tanev, Provorov, Markov, Boychuk

 

My rankings of wingers: P. Kane, Tarasenko, Benn, Kucherov, Ovechkin, Hall, Marchand, Panarin, Gaudreau, Forsberg, Pastrnak, Wheeler, Stone, Laine, Marner, Kessel, Voracek, Saad, Ehlers, Simmonds, Perry, W. Nylander, Atkinson, Pacioretty, Skinner, Silfverberg, Drouin, Landeskog, N. Foligno, Zuccarello, Gallagher, Radulov, Palat, Arvidsson, Neal, Kreider, Okposo, Oshie, Steen , Hoffman, Burakovsky, Tkachuk, Toffoli, Schwartz, Domi, Aho, Larkin, JVR, E. Kane, Rantanen, Sheary, Hornqvist, Marchessault, Backes, Williams, D. Sedin, Niederreiter, JT Miller, Lucic, Parise, Tatar, Cogliano, Eberle, Ryan, Johansson

 

My rankings of goalies: Price, Holtby, Bobrovsky, Schneider, Crawford, Murray, Dubnyk, Rask, Talbot, Bishop, Jones, Lundqvist, Gibson

 

Takeaways: For all of our posting chemistry, NS either had players ranked 100 spots higher than I had them, or had players I didn't even put on my board :P

 

 

 

 

Edited August 11, 2017 by Randall Flagg

[North Buffalo]

Sorry I picked JVR, not sure what pic but you have him not ranked.

[Randall Flagg]

Sorry I picked JVR, not sure what pic but you have him not ranked.

Nice catch

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Randall,

 

I skimmed until I got to the very bottom and your 'takeaway' ...

 

:lol:

[Eleven]

Takeaway: we gotta get Flagg a girlfriend.

[WildCard]

Takeaway: we gotta get Flagg a girlfriend.

He has one :lol:

[Randall Flagg]

Takeaway: we gotta get Flagg a girlfriend.

I've been with my girlfriend for 4 years

 

Yes, I've made her detest hockey

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Takeaway: we gotta get Flagg a girlfriend.

 

I had suggested this before and ...

 

He has one :lol:

 

Maybe a second one ...  :flirt:

 

I've been with my girlfriend for 4 years

 

Yes, I've made her detest hockey

 

Maybe a boyfriend?

 

:flirt:  :flirt:

[SwampD]

I've been with my girlfriend for 4 years

 

Yes, I've made her detest hockey

You've made me detest hockey?

:lol:

[Randall Flagg]

You've made me detest hockey?

:lol:

I hope not babe  :wub: