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This thread will cover some analysis of the results from these threads:
Centers - HFBoards Top 31 NHL Centers
Wingers - HFBoards Top 31 NHL Wingers
Defenders - HFBoards Top 31 NHL Defenders
Goalies - HFBoards Top 20 NHL Goaltenders
Now that the HF Top Players by Position polls have...
RankPlayerAgeTeamCountryGPGAP%
#1Victor Hedman28:bolts7012425461.8%
#2Erik Karlsson29:sharks533424549.2%
#3Drew Doughty29:kings828374533.8%
#4Brent Burns34:sharks8216678333.8%
#5Mark Giordano35:flames7817577546.5%
#6Seth Jones24:cbj759374648.4%
#7Alex Pietrangelo29:blues7113284136.1%
#8Roman...
The top 31 wingers in the NHL as voted on by members of HFBoards.
RankPlayerAgeTeamCountryGPGAP%
#1Nikita Kucherov26:bolts82418712885.0%
#2Patrick Kane30:hawks81446611039.2%
#3Alexander Ovechkin33:caps8151388961.5%
#4Brad Marchand31:bruins79366410038.0%
#5Leon Draisaitl23:edmonton82505510530.9%...
So we put it to a vote this summer and heres the results of such a deep deep draft. Im sure noone aggres with all the order and seems every year therell be shuffled around again
1 EDM Mcdavid (e) Connor McDavid - Wikipedia
2 BUFF Jeichel 70% (e) 2015 NHL redraft poll #1/#2
3 TOR Marner 49% (+1)...
I have been thinking about writing this post for over a month now. I've noticed on different areas of this website, John has been disrespected or generally underrated or underappreciated.
What I've read:
John got overpaid
John never reached his potential
John wasn't a great #1 pick
John's...
Rank
PlayerAgeTeamCountryGPGAP%
#1Connor McDavid22:edmonton78417511685.7%
#2Sidney Crosby32:pens79356510071.8%
#3Nathan MacKinnon23:avs8241589971.3%
#4Aleksander Barkov23:panthers 8235619638.1%
#5Patrice Bergeron34:bruins6532477950.9%
#6Evgeni Malkin33:pens6821517264.3%
#7Auston Matthews21:leafs...
RankPlayerAgeTeamCountryWSOGAAS%%
#1Andrei Vasilevskiy25:bolts3962.40.92527.0%, 64.2% (TB)
#2Carey Price31:habs3542.49.91827.0%, 35.8%(TB)
#3John Gibson26:ducks2622.84.91750.0%
#4Sergei Bobrovsky30:panthers3792.58.91365.7%
#5Ben Bishop32:stars2771.98.93448.5%
#6Tuukka...
Just like many of you, by this time in the middle of the summer I start itching for anything hockey. I was bored and had some spare time so I decided to put together my list of the top 100 forwards in the league.
My Criteria:
This list is based on the top 100 forwards at this very moment. It...
As of this season, Alexander Ovechkin must score 237 goals in order to better The Great One's all time goalscoring record. In this thread I do some back of the envelope calculations to estimate with what probability that will happen, and plot the results.
Key assumptions: I assume that he will...
After creating a trade thread for Jonas Brodin I came across some Minnesota fans who explained to me the direction Minnesota’s GM Fenton is likely headed and it had me wondering:
Shouldn’t Minnesota be going into a full rebuild? Well lets take a closer look:
Their top three point producers...
I know the series is over. I know we won, and the next series is coming up tonight, and this is mostly irrelevant now. But *something* happened on this play and it's been bugging me not understanding exactly what it was. Dougie Hamilton has his weaknesses, but he's not a quitter. And Rod...
Motivation: As a Red Wings fan, I've experienced the entitlement of a team capable of staying competitive for over a decade, followed by the unfamiliar frustration of a team that's not used to being bad. My fanbase is split between those [rightfully] wanting to win games because of pro sports'...
I previously ranked the top 10 players in the NHL at the midway mark of the season in an article here: Top 10 players at each position at the mid-way mark
Now given that game 82 was played last night and the playoffs are still a few days away, it looks like the perfect time to re-rank all the...
By request, cross-posting this to FBOH from a main board thread
Hurricanes attendance trend in a series of images:
This is of course a global view, which shows the overall "bottom out and rebound" trend that goes along with having not played a playoff game since 2009.
But the real action is...
As I promised in the RFA/prospect write-up, UFA players from the KHL are also getting a write-up from me, so here it is. Although I must say that with UFAs it is much harder to make predictions, as it's almost impossible to guess the final destination, so a lot of stuff written here is just my...
Currently, there are only 10 active players who have ever scored 100 points in a season:
-Joe Thornton
-Sidney Crosby
-Alex Ovechkin
-Evgeni Malkin
-Connor McDavid
-Patrick Kane
-Nikita Kucherov
-Claude Giroux
-Nicklas Backstrom
-Eric Staal
However, with the increased scoring this year, there...
March is very soon upon us, and us armchair-GMs have now done our jobs: stressing over the moves the GMs of all our favourite teams have or have not made, causing us endless pain and terrifying the living daylights out of us. ‘Are we going to pay for the privilege of seeing Cody Ceci wear our...
When seeing the hurricane speed with which the Lightning seems to be crashing into the playoffs, I wondered which team was the quickest to clinch the playoffs in the history of the NHL. Well, since 1942. I asked the question on Twitter, but there was no definite answer.
If the mountain will not...
Some of you may remember my 2017-18 WAR leaders thread last fall. I have been tinkering with the formula and values all season. One of the major differences is the incorporation of XG. Pretty happy with the formula for forwards now. Plugged the stats from this season in ( all data via Corsica)...
Just got curious and did a quick spreadsheet over coffee. It doesn't make a ton of difference overall, but when it does make a difference I think I like it. Like Chicago and Colorado, for example. And I like the fact that there's a little more separation between teams, but maybe that goes...
