Matthews, Marner, Tavares rankings on TSN's Top 50 Players of 2021
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ToneDog
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What Drai at #3, M Tkachuk at #25, Barzal at #34, Kyle Conner at #36 and no Nylander ?? 
Pettersson, Point, Eichel, Pasta, Schieffele above Marner. All those underpaid players.
Marner above Jones but nobody would trade you Jones 1 for 1 for Marner. Interesting.
Pettersson, Point, Eichel, Pasta, Schieffele above Marner. All those underpaid players.
Marner above Jones but nobody would trade you Jones 1 for 1 for Marner. Interesting.
kk87
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Crosby at 7 is hilarious. Draisaitl at 3 is brutal. Tkachuk way too high. Laine shouldn't be on the list
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Fogelhund
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Thanks for sharing the list, this isn't a criticism of posting it, or of the list.
I don't care if we have players #1, #2 and #3... it's time to win. Win, and I don't care about much else. Having top ranked players, on a team that doesn't win, that's a consolation prize I can do without.
I think it's a slightly strange list, but not terrible.
For Leafs, Matthews and Marner are pretty well placed IMO. Tavares a touch low I think - I'd have him above Zibanejad (had an amazing season but I'm very skeptical he repeats), Quinn Hughes, ROR, Barzal and Connor, more like 33 than 38.
Overall, worst rankings on this list is Point up at 10, with Malkin way down at 19. I feel this is pure bias with Tampa being a better team than Pittsburgh, and over-indexing on Point's recent playoff performance. Malkin is well above Point IMO, while they have him well below.
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Beyonder91
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What Drai at #3, M Tkachuk at #25, Barzal at #34, Kyle Conner at #36 and no Nylander ??
Pettersson, Point, Eichel, Pasta, Schieffele above Marner. All those underpaid players.
Marner above Jones but nobody would trade you Jones 1 for 1 for Marner. Interesting.
Nylander is not that respected outside of some Leaf homers...
ToneDog
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God Bless the members of the William Nylander fan club. At this point, what matters is whether he makes the list next year.
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LeafsNation75
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I remember us saying they ranked Kessel to low never making the top 20, because TSN used the excuse how he did not play a position like Centre.
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LeafsNation75
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So you think Matthews would have been ranked ahead of Kucherov even if he wasn't injured and out for this season?
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Tavares is better than some of the guys listed in the 20's and 30's, but Marner and Matthews are about where they should be.
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I have no idea how they would’ve ranked him, but he’s right there with those guys. 3,4,5.... no appreciable difference
Jmo89
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Many Leaf fans are also just sick of the same 5-10 Leaf fans constantly bickering on both sides of the argument.
Overpaid, underpaid, doesn't really matter if they never win anything.
@Fogelhund is right, winning is all that matters.
LeafsNation75
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At least with Matthews being ranked 4th this year it makes the Leafs haters all upset because they hate seeing TSN always putting Matthews in the top 10 and now the top 5.
Jmo89
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I haven't followed much NHL news the past couple months. Didn't realize Kucherov was out for the season. Didn't Boston lose Marchand and Pasta for awhile too? The on-hiatus Atlantic division is getting pretty banged up.
LeafsNation75
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Marchand and Pastrnak both had surgery a few months ago and are going to miss the start of the season.
LeafsNation75
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If Tavares can play like he did in the 2018-19 Season when he wasn't injured, I would not be surprised to see him rank higher on this list before the 2021-22 Seeason.
hamzarocks
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Matthews 3-4 spots to high for now though I see him being that spot by end of the year so not much of an issue
Marner about where he should be though I expect marner to move 8-12 spots this year
Tavares about 10-12 spots to low and I expect him to be in the mid 20s after a strong year this season
Marner about where he should be though I expect marner to move 8-12 spots this year
Tavares about 10-12 spots to low and I expect him to be in the mid 20s after a strong year this season
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LeafsNation75
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Maybe Matthews would have been 5th or 6th if Kucherov was playing this season.
MattySnipes
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JT just hung up on the overdrive guys. Has to be because of his ranking
LeafsNation75
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Since Tavares has a more proven career than Zibanejad I can see a case why he should be ranked ahead of him.
I also agree that Tavares should be ahead of Barzal, Q Hughes, Connor, and O'Reilly.
