Most underrated player in the NHL?

[The S5]

you spelled Makar wrong

You are entitled to your opinion, even though its wrong.

 

[Turning Mangiapanese]

I was just thinking the other day that this must be John Carlson. Dude's just been producing for years and years and never gets talked about.

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Correct answer is in my username

 

[Buck Naked]

I was just thinking the other day that this must be John Carlson. Dude's just been producing for years and years and never gets talked about.

I love that Wolf album.

 

[JTeller97]

Clayton Keller
Rasmus Andersson
JT Miller
Drew Doughty (not talked about enough given how much of a horse he still is)
Joel Eriksson Ek
Dylan Strome
Travis Konecny

 

[waffledave]

Nick Suzuki. Nobody outside of Montreal fans watch the Habs so you see dumbshit takes on here like "he's terrible defensively" because some nerd looks at his +/- on NHL.com.

He's one of the better two-way centers in the league and will win a Selke one day.

 

[toddkaz]

Nick Suzuki. Nobody outside of Montreal fans watch the Habs so you see dumbshit takes on here like "he's terrible defensively" because some nerd looks at his +/- on NHL.com.

He's one of the better two-way centers in the league and will win a Selke one day.

60 point player underrated? They are a dime a dozen

 

[HolyHagelin]

you spelled Makar wrong

Makar is going to be headlining the overrated thread soon at the rate things are going, dude has *trash* metrics this year

 

[waffledave]

60 point player underrated? They are a dime a dozen

Look at him in relation to the rest of the players on the team. It's a miracle he has 67 points as it is. And very few 60+ point centers are as good defensively as Suzuki.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Kyle Connor is definitely very underrated mainly due to playing in Winnipeg.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

For Kempe, Id love to hear Kings fans opinion on this.

He's coming off of a 41 goal season, and before that 35. Currently leading the Kings in pts as well, but I never really hear aboht him.

dude worked on his shot three offseasons ago and came back a transformed player. Feisty, fast, goes to the hard spots, excellent two way game...not trying to give the Kings any ideas at this point because they love his shot on the wing but i'm always surprised theyd idn't try to move him back to C after trying out a million other players there. But I think it became apparent that putting his game on the side was better for him. I'd love to see him make a deep playoff run somewhere, he's got that clutch gene, and is better the more physically engaged he is. Definitely an underrated player over the last couple of seasons and maybe that plays into it, prior to that he was the typical 50-point enigma, gets hot then disappears. Now his A game is better and if he's not scoring he's still eminently useful. He can play any kind of game, prototypical top line winger.

 

[Dijock94]

Hintz
Pesce
Hampus Lindholm

 

[Kingfan1967]

If your on the first line or top pair, your not underrated, your unnoticed which is different.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Market bias is real. Dallas just isn’t sexy, but dudes like Wyatt Johnston are making more people take notice. I’m sure CBJ, Winnipeg, etc. have dudes who are stellar, but they aren’t on stellar teams. Kyle Conor isn’t worth the watch on his own, no one is hyping ‘em, so he goes underrated.

 

[amnesiac]

You are entitled to your opinion, even though it’s wrong.

Make a poll, see how wrong I am….

But of course you won’t

 

[Profet]

Make a poll, see how wrong I am….

But of course you won’t

You don't win "most underrated player" but winning polls.

That's counterintuitive.

 

[Macheteops]

For the Rangers, I would nominate Vince Trocheck. He's been a low-end first line center since forever now.

Also, I always find myself surprised by the amount of goals Adrian Kempe has. There's no hype about it and then I see it and I'm like "wow, he's had a good season."

As an Oiler fan facing LA the last two playoffs Kempe is legit. Agreed though you don't hear much about him

 

[Nico13]

Me

 

[amnesiac]

You don't win "most underrated player" but winning polls.

That's counterintuitive.

has nothing to do with it

hes claiming Fox is better than Makar....

 

[Run the Gauntlet]

Im a Ranger fan and there is no way i take Fox over Makar.
Makar's skating skills are god-like.

 

[LemonSauceD]

This has to be JT Miller

 

[Stephen]

In my mind, this guy is the most underrated player in the game: high end skill player, high intelligence, drive train, great skater, big game player, consistently overlooked, probably underpaid, zero superstar charisma with:

1x 50 goal season
2x 40 goal seasons
2x 90 point season
2 Stanley Cups
PPG in the playoffs

 

[Buck Naked]

In my mind, this guy is the most underrated player in the game: high end skill player, high intelligence, drive train, great skater, big game player, consistently overlooked, probably underpaid, zero superstar charisma with:

1x 50 goal season
2x 40 goal seasons
2x 90 point season
2 Stanley Cups
PPG in the playoffs

Really? He's been mentioned as a top 10 center for the past few seasons at least if I'm not mistaken? I'd say that's fairly correct, seeing as he's never been able to replicate anything close to those numbers without being attached to Kucherov's hip.

 

[dirtydanglez]

keller comes to mind. maybe troy terry too

 

[Albatros]

Travis Konecny is a good candidate.