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Best player in the world: 2017

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Best player in the world: 2017

  • McDavid

    Votes: 53 36.8%

  • Crosby

    Votes: 61 42.4%

  • Kane

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Kucherov

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Marchand

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Malkin

    Votes: 4 2.8%

  • Bergeron

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Burns

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Karlsson

    Votes: 21 14.6%

  • Hedman

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Bobrovsky

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Holtby

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Price

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    144
  • Poll closed .
Karlsson was the best player in the world this year. I have never seen a single player (outside of a goalie) carry his team like Karlsson did this year. Ottawa regularly won games on essentially his effort alone, it was absurd to watch. Unless you watched him every night you wouldn't see all the little things he'd do every time he was on the ice.
 
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Erik Alfredsson said:
Karlsson was the best player in the world this year. I have never seen a single player (outside of a goalie) carry his team like Karlsson did this year. Ottawa regularly won games on essentially his effort alone, it was absurd to watch. Unless you watched him every night you wouldn't see all the little things he'd do every time he was on the ice.
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I think it's always hardest in those years where you have to compare across positions. I think there could have been a lot more years that a goalie or a defenseman *could* have been the best player in the year; they're just playing a different game than the forwards are, and our method of judgment for them is less obvious or apparent. Much like the years where you had Hasek competing with Jagr, and Lidstrom competing with whoever; I think Karlsson and Price give Crosby the greatest challenge to his claim for best in the world in any given year over this part of the decade, and it's because they were so brilliant and dominant at their position.
 
Last year Crosby is undisputed #1

Honestly next year if MAlkin or z Kessel liked each other in playoffs.

They could have won 3 in a row. Crosby was so good those 2 first rounds.
 
wetcoast said:
Well you did quote this so your claim is what exactly?
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Is it hard to understand how part of the poll doesn't = top 3?

Is it your assertion that Hall was not good enough to be among the 13 players in the POLL?

take the L and get a "D" in reading comprehension and move on.
 
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Crosby may get some votes next season as well due to his 21 point in 12 games playoff. But McDavid will take over the polls from now on
 
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Xirik said:
Is it hard to understand how part of the poll doesn't = top 3?

Is it your assertion that Hall was not good enough to be among the 13 players in the POLL?

take the L and get a "D" in reading comprehension and move on.
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Sure I get there are 13 players in the poll but at any given time there are at best maybe 3 players with a legitimate claim to best player in the world and often less.

Hall has never been in that conversation as a serious candidate.
 
wetcoast said:
Sure I get there are 13 players in the poll but at any given time there are at best maybe 3 players with a legitimate claim to best player in the world and often less.

Hall has never been in that conversation as a serious candidate.
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Not to mention mackinnion was robbed blind of that hart
 
Midnight Judges said:
In reality he certainly wasn't, but his fans will pretend he was.
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Right, I guess this poll would have more validity if it were on the main boards rather than only the Pens board.

Wait...

wetcoast said:
Canadians too eh.
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There are a number of Canadian players on the poll. If "Candians" are an x-factor voting bloc, there's a danger of vote splitting.

Maybe Crosby's just really good.
 
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Erik Alfredsson said:
Karlsson was the best player in the world this year. I have never seen a single player (outside of a goalie) carry his team like Karlsson did this year. Ottawa regularly won games on essentially his effort alone, it was absurd to watch. Unless you watched him every night you wouldn't see all the little things he'd do every time he was on the ice.
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Ben White said:
Karl
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Karlsson is great - and he was absolutely fantastic in these playoffs - but he's still #3 behind Crosby and McDavid. Even at his very best, he was never on their level. It's fine to think highly about EK without exagerating and thinking he was better than both McDavid and Crosby too - because he definitely was not.

Dipsy Doodle said:
Amazing consistency from Crosby.

12 years and counting considered one of the 3 best players in the league.
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Sidney Crosby is one of the most consistently elite players in the history of the sport - in fact, "one of the most"...he has argument for #1 all-time. Bourque is up there too, with his ~18 top 4 norris, and Howe - and Crosby as well.

Only player in history to be above ppg every single season of his career up to this age.

As for these polls - Crosby was not yet a top 3 player in the world in 2005-2006, and shouldn't have been voted as such. But every season since, yes.
 
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Dipsy Doodle said:
Right, I guess this poll would have more validity if it were on the main boards rather than only the Pens board.

Wait...
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The thing about this voting is, it isn't ranked choice.

So Crosby fans really were claiming - with a straight face - that he was better than Jagr/Thornton in 2006, better than Ovechkin in 2008-2010, better than Malkin in 2012, better than Price in 2015, better than Kane in 2016.

There is absolutely zero case for Crosby as best player in any of those seasons.

So again, this poll series is more a measure of rank homerism on this forum than anything else.
 
Midnight Judges said:
The thing about this voting is, it isn't ranked choice.

So Crosby fans really were claiming - with a straight face - that he was better than Jagr/Thornton in 2006, better than Ovechkin in 2008-2010, better than Malkin in 2012, better than Price in 2015, better than Kane in 2016.

There is absolutely zero case for Crosby as best player in any of those seasons.

So again, this poll series is more a measure of rank homerism on this forum than anything else.
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Like usual you are off topic as the question isn't who had the best season and even if you don't agree with those choices you have to admit that Crosby was in the mix or else there is some other narrative or bias creeping in here.

Your cries of nationalism and homerism are just absurd to say the least and unfortunate that these types of weak arguments even come up here.
 
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