Best Player of All Time at Each Number - #88

[Mitch nylander]

Skipped 87 cause Crosby has no competition

This should be really close. I think I take Patty over Lindros.
Options for #88
Brent Burns
Patrick Kane
Eric Lindros
David Pastrnak
Andrei Vasilevskiy

#0 and #00 were skipped, we can do them last if it is in demand. Skipping 66 and 99.
#1 - (final ) 1. Jacques Plante 2. Terry Sawchuk 3. Bernie Parent
#2 - (will redo forgot Shore) 1. Doug Harvey 2. Brian Leetch 3. Al Macinnis/Vyacheslav Fetisov
#3 - (final) 1. Pierre Pilote 2. Scott Stevens 3. Harry Howell
#4 - (final) 1. Bobby Orr
#5 - (final) 1. Nick Lidstrom
#6 - (final) 1. Toe Blake 2. Phil Housley 3. Shea Weber
#7 - (final) 1. Phil Esposito 2. Ray Bourque 3. Howie Morenz
#8 - (final) 1. Alex Ovechkin
#9 - (final) 1. Gordie Howe 2. Maurice "Rocket" Richard 3. Bobby Hull
#10 - (final) 1. Guy Lafleur 2. Pavel Bure 3. Ron Francis
#11 - (final) 1. Mark Messier 2. Gilbert Perreault
#12 - (Final) 1. Jerome Iginla 2. Dickie Moore 3. Adam Oates
#13 - (Final) 1. Pavel Datsyuk 2. Mats Sundin
#14 - (Final) 1. Brendan Shanahan 2. Dave Keon 3. Theo Fleury.
#15 - (Final) 1. Milt Schmidt 2. Ryan Getzlaf 3. Dany Heatley
#16 - (Final) 1. Bobby Clarke 2. Marcel Dionne 3. Brett Hull.
#17 - (Final) 1. Jarri Kurri 2. Ilya Kovalchuk 3. Rod Brind'Amour
#18 - (Final) 1. Denis Savard 2. Serge Savard 3. Marian Hossa
#19 - (Final) 1. Joe Sakic 2. Steve Yzerman 3. Larry Robinson
#20 - (Final) 1. Luc Robitaille 2. Ed Belfour 3 Pete Mahovlich
#21 - (Final) 1. Stan Mikita 2. Peter Forsberg 3. Borje Salming
#22 - (Final) 1. Mike Bossy 2. Brad Park 3. Daniel Sedin
#23 - (Final) 1. Bob Gainey 2. Eddie Shack/Milan Hejduk
#24 - (Final) 1. Chris Chelios 2. Terry O'reilly
#25 - (Final) 1. Jacques Lemaire 2. Joe Nieuwendyk 3. Vincent Damphousse
#26 - (Final) 1. Peter Stastny 2. Martin St.Louis 3. Patrick Elias
#27 - (Final) 1. Scott Niedermayer 2. Frank Mahovlich 3. Alex Kovalev
#28 - (Final) 1. Claude Giroux 2. Steve Larmer 3. Steve Duchesne
#29 - (Final) 1. Ken Dryden 2. Nathan Mackinnon 3. Leon Draisatl
#30 - (Final) 1. Martin Brodeur 2. Henrik Lundqvist
#31 - (Final) 1. Grant Fuhr 2. Carey Price 3. Billy Smith
#32 - (Final) 1. Claude Lemieux 2. Jonathan Quick 3. Dale Hunter
#33 - (Final) 1. Patrick Roy 2. Henrik Sedin 3. Zdeno Chara
#34 - (Final) 1. Mikka Kiprusoff 2. John Vanbiesbrouck 3. Auston Matthews
#35 - (Final) 1. Tony Esposito
#36- (Final) 1. John Gibson 2. Matthew Barnaby 3. Mats Zuccarello
#37 - (Final) 1. Patrice Bergeron
#38 - (Final) 1. Pavol Demitra 2. Vladimir Malakhov
#39 - (Final) 1. Dominik Hasek
#40 - (Final) 1. Henrik Zetterberg 2. Tuukka Rask 3. Alex Tanguay
#41 - (Final) 1. Jason Allison 2. Mike Smith/Jaroslav Halak
#42 - (Final)1. Sergei Makarov 2. David Backes
#43 - (Final)1. Nazem Kadri 2. Tom Wilson 3. Martin Biron
#44 - (Final) 1. Chris Pronger
#45 - (Final) 1. Sami Vatanen 2. Dmitri Kalinin 3. Aaron Asham
#46 - (Final) 1. David Krejci 2. Jared Spurgeon
#47 - (Final) 1. Alexander Radulov 2. Torey Krug 3. Hampus Lindholm
#48 - (Final) 1. Daniel Briere
#49 - (Final) 1. Brian Savage 2. Victor Rask 3. Michael Leighton
#50 - (Final) 1. Corey Crawford 2. Antoine Vermette
#51 - (Final) 1. Brian Campbell 2. Alexei Kovalenko
#52 - (Final) 1. Adam Foote 2. Mike Green
#53 - (Final) 1. Jeff Skinner 2. Derek Morris 3. Bo Horvat
#54 - (Final) 1. Adam Mcquaid 2. David Jones
#55 - (Final) 1. Larry Murphy 2. Sergei Gonchar 3. Nicklas Kronwall
#56 - (Final) 1. Sergei Zubov
#57 - (Final) 1. David Perron 2. Tyler Myers
#58 - (Final) 1. Kris Letang
#59 - (Final) 1. Roman Josi 2. Jake Guentzel
#60 - (Final) 1. Jose Theodore
#61 - (Final)1. Rick Nash 2. Mark Stone 3. Maxim Afinogenov
#62 - (Final) 1. Carl Hagelin
#63 - (Final) 1. Brad Marchand 2. Mike Ribeiro
#64 - (Final) 1. Mikael Granlund
#65 - (Final) 1. Erik Karlsson
#66 - (Final) 1. Mario Lemieux
#67 - (Final) 1. Max Pacioretty 2. Michael Frolik/Rickard Rakell
#68 - (Final) 1. Jaromir Jagr
#69 - (Final) 1. Andrew Desjardins 2. Mel Angelstad
#70 - (Final) 1. Braden Holtby
#71 - (Final) 1. Evgeni Malkin
#72 - (Final) 1. Sergei Bobrovsky
#73 - (Final) 1. Michael Ryder 2. Charlie Mcavoy 3. Tyler Toffoli
#74 - (Final) 1. John Carlson
#75 - (Final) 1. Hal Gill (2009-14) 2.Ryan Reaves
#76 - (Final) 1. Pk Subban
#77 - (in progress) 1. Ray Bourque 2. Paul Coffey 3. Pierre Turgeon
#78 - (in progress) 1. Pierre-Eduourd Bellemare 2. Marc-Antoine Pouliot
#79 - (in progress) 1. Andrei Markov 2. Alexei Yashin (02-07)
#80- (in progress) 1. Nik Antropov 2. Kevin Weekes
#81- (in progress) 1. Marian Hossa 2. Phil Kessel
#82 - (in progress) 1. Martin Straka
#83 - (in progress) 1. Ales Hemsky 2. Jay Beagle
#84 - (in progress) 1. Mikhail Grabovski 2. Gillaume Latendresse
#85 - (in progress) 1. Petr Klima 2. Mathieu Perreault
#86 - (in progress) 1. Nikita Kucherov
#87 - (Final) 1. Sidney Crosby
#88 - (in progress) 1. Patrick Kane 2. Eric Lindros

Excited to see how 91 and 88 shake down, and if the addition of Shore changes #2

 

[Foppberg]

Lindros.

 

[Voight]

Kane > Lindros

 

[Tad Mikowsky]

Kane has done more than Lindros. So Kane.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Kane is way, way better than Lindros at this point.

 

[Dominance]

Kane is way, way better than Lindros at this point.

Better? There’s certainly *more* to his career at this point, but I would not say better.

 

[CanadienShark]

Voted Kane, but hesitated on Lindros.

 

[hamzarocks]

Kane cuz he statyed healthy and has become the best American player ever. If lindros has gotten another 300 games in his prime being healthy he would have been a top 10 player of all time and easily blown away the other worthy names here

 

[Regal]

Kane has had the fuller career, but Lindros was the better player and when I saw 88 I immediately thought Lindros first. Likely more nostalgia with it, but that's fine.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

The Big E.

 

[AdamParrot]

Is it in their prime or career?

Prime? Big E by far.
Career? Kane by far.

 

[Merrrlin]

Those are 5 very good players.

 

[Voight]

Kane cuz he statyed healthy and has become the best American player ever. If lindros has gotten another 300 games in his prime being healthy he would have been a top 10 player of all time and easily blown away the other worthy names here

Disagree, even in his healthy seasons the best he did was tie for the Art Ross. If he had been healthy he'd likely be higher in all time rankings but I'm not convinced he reaches top 10 status.

At his peak Kane won the scoring title with a 17 point margin, was 2nd in goals (behind Ovy) and easily won the Hart (Pearson as well).

He followed that up with 2nd & 3rd place point finishes plus 10th & 5th goal finishes.

 

[Sasso09]

Without a doubt Lindros was the much better player. Kane has had a longer career and a cup. It really depends on how you view the question. For me it's Lindros easily and the only reason Kane would be close is due to team accomplishments and injury.

 

[Sasso09]

Disagree, even in his healthy seasons the best he did was tie for the Art Ross. If he had been healthy he'd likely be higher in all time rankings but I'm not convinced he reaches top 10 status.

At his peak Kane won the scoring title with a 17 point margin, was 2nd in goals (behind Ovy) and easily won the Hart (Pearson as well).

He followed that up with 2nd & 3rd place point finishes plus 10th & 5th goal finishes.

Yeah.... just crazy. "just tied for art ross" with absolute legends in the league, also while being the most complete and dominant player in the game. There's more to hockey than points.

 

[Voight]

Yeah.... just crazy. "just tied for art ross" with absolute legends in the league, also while being the most complete and dominant player in the game. There's more to hockey than points.

He tied with Jagr.

Kane beat prime Crosby in the scoring race by 21 points.

Not saying Crosby is a better all time player, but he (along with Ovy) are in that upper tier of all time greats.

 

[Tutu to]

Kane has had the fuller career, but Lindros was the better player and when I saw 88 I immediately thought Lindros first. Likely more nostalgia with it, but that's fine.

While Kane has had the better career when I see the number 88 I think of Lindros.

 

[newfy]

Kane has definitely passed Lindros. The hype for what Lindros could've been is out of control, he tied for the Art Ross once. Kanes hart season was more dominant offensively than anything Lindros ever did. Hes also got a better track record/clutch play factor in the playoff as well

 

[Paul4587]

He tied with Jagr.

Kane beat prime Crosby in the scoring race by 21 points.

Not saying Crosby is a better all time player, but he (along with Ovy) are in that upper tier of all time greats.

That same Sidney Crosby lost a scoring title to Jamie Benn a year earlier. Crosby may have been in his prime as a player around that point but his regular season point totals were far from his best. He started that season playing horribly and didn’t turn it around until his coach was fired.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Lindros was the better player, Kane has had the better career.