FrankSidebottom
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Best player in the world: 2008
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Dion TheFluff
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hamzarocks
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Ovechkin. My vote is for Malkin only so Zetterberg does not sneak up in 2nd he may still because Detroit fans are relentless but I want it known 08 Ovechkin is my true best player in the world
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It seems to me this works better if people just vote honestly.
norrisnick
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Zetterberg's two-way play from beginning through the Final, IMO, bridges the offensive edge that Ov has. Neither is a poor choice. Lidstrom and Malkin are also right there.
Realgud
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Video Nasty
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Would that be happening to wear the sweater of the nearest team one happened to be born near merely by chance?
Realgud
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Could you rephrase that please, I don't understand.
Alfredsson had the outright Art Ross lead at the 2008 all-star break. Injured first game afterwards and finished just shy of 90 points with 40 goals.
Should be in the conversation at least, after leading the playoffs in goals and points in 2007, a top 5 Art Ross finish finish in 2006, and leading Sweden in goals and points when they won gold in Sochi in 2006.
But it’s Ovechkin here. Heck of a year.
Should be in the conversation at least, after leading the playoffs in goals and points in 2007, a top 5 Art Ross finish finish in 2006, and leading Sweden in goals and points when they won gold in Sochi in 2006.
But it’s Ovechkin here. Heck of a year.
KoozNetsOff 92
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OV, not really close. 1st in goals, GPG, pts, PPG, 200+ hits, 43pts more than 2nd on the team, landslide hart win (128-1 first place votes vs Malkin), lindsay win.
norrisnick
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EdJovanovski
#FreeRempe
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Start breaking bricks wet nips
WarriorOfGandhi
Was saying Boo-urns
JaegerDice
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FrankSidebottom
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Full seasons are considered, i.e with playoffs.
JaegerDice
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Felidae
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JaegerDice
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I will never understand this community's fetishization of regular season awards.
I love Ovi as much as the next hockey fan, but beating up on the Southeast division is not the grand achievement some people make it out to be.
norrisnick
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nowhereman
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I voted Ovechkin but how in the world was Crosby not close to those two? The guy was injured for a chunk of the year but was still better than Malkin when he was healthy and played against the other teams' best match-ups (and outperformed Malkin in the 2008 playoffs). Even the next year, he scored at a similar rate to Geno but, again, did so against a better QOC (and had arguably a comparable playoff run). Best statistical season does not equal best player, especially in the Crosby/Malkin debate.
The big three were all pretty close but OV was the obvious choice for this poll, as his 2007-2008 poll is one of the best non-Gretz/Lemieux seasons ever and he largely maintained that level of play over the next two seasons.
Crosby was leading the league in scoring when he got hurt, but not blowing the league away to the point where you could look to him even though he missed 30 games or whatever it was, so obviously he was one of the best players in the world that year, but I think the past polls here suggests you have to look at those that played.....other than that one year Lemieux came out on top, which I totally disagree with that one......so yeah, deserves to be a choice here, but not top 2 or 3 I don't think.
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Regular season is a way bigger sample size so the chances of someone getting hot and fluking an elite season are way lower than someone getting hot and having an elite playoff run. Not to mention the obvious that playoff success depends on the team.
Lol beating up on the southeast?
OV 07/08
82 GP
65 goals, 0.79 GPG
112 pts, 1.37 PPG
Vs southeast
32 GP
22 goals, 0.69 GPG
39pts, 1.22 PPG
Vs rest of NHL
50 GP
43 goals, 0.86 GPG
73pts, 1.46 PPG
Considering you chose Makar over OV in the "who would you draft at 18 poll" it's not surprising that you are again clueless about the facts.
