Players Who Are "Boring" But Very Good/Effective?

[McMoMoney29]

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

 

[Ceremony]

Devon Toews

 

[Oddbob]

Nik Lidstrom was the Tim Duncan of NHL superstars.

Rock solid fundamentals.

Perfect positioning.

Clean on and off the ice

Interviews full of all the cliches.

“Boring”.

Never once in all my time watching Nick did I think boring! Regarding interviews, virtually all players are boring here and give cliche answers and that has nothing to do with the thread.

 

[JoVel]

Alex Killorn

 

[Ulysses31]

Tavares

tavares fun to watch, fascinating to see how much he can get done on craftiness, hockey sense, hands, play making, strength, shooting n no speed

 

[BonMorrison]

The early 2010's New York Rangers, my god.

McDonagh and Girardi blocking 392434344 shots a game and if those shots got through, they had to deal with Lundqvist.

 

[Murzu]

Ryan O'Reilly.

 

[Machinehead]

Trocheck

 

[robertmac43]

People from Leafs land are going to hate this....JT91

 

[Moose Head]

Danault

 

[Toronto makebeleifs]

Shocked noone mentioned Phil danault yet

Edit- beaten by a minute

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Joel Eriksson-Ek
Brock Nelson
Oliver Bjorkstrand
Nazem Kadri
Ryan O'Reilly
Alex Tuch

Jaccob Slavin
Jonas Brodin
Mikey Anderson
Brandon Carlo
Seth Jones
Jake Sanderson (but I think he is about to breakout)

A lot of non boring players here.

 

[Rebels57]

Pre-injury Couturier. Few Centers shutdown other top centers while driving play into the offensive zone as well as 2017-2021 Couturier.

 

[HockeyScotty]

A lot of non boring players here.

Personally I agree; just thinking of players that don't get hyped, highlight-reels, but in my mind are excellent hockey players that have high IQ/Skill just not as much "flash" as the superstars.

 

[missionAvs]

On the Avs, Devon Toews is pretty boring but that's why he's so effective. Sound positionally, no big hits but is sound with taking the body and rubbing guys out of the play, meh shot but can sometimes get it through for the tip. He's just a solid player.

 

[HockeyVirus]

tavares fun to watch, fascinating to see how much he can get done on craftiness, hockey sense, hands, play making, strength, shooting n no speed

IDK about fun to watch. Compared to Nylander and Matthews and Marner he is pretty boring. Kind of blends into the game and then randomly seems to find himself in open ice with the puck and usually does something with that. Not sure how he does it.

 

[PavelBure10]

Dave Andreychuk was always a very good NHL player, but I never found him overly flashy. Very average skater that scored a bunch of goals in the league, but always found the bland way of doing it.

 

[Crow]

Sasha Barkov

Really? Dude has amazing hands and vision and makes highlight reel plays often.

 

[dalewood12]

Brenden Morrow

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Darnell Nurse. The entire world saw just how effective he was last playoffs espeically in the cup final.

 

[Xirik]

Adam Larsson

 

[sansabri]

Ryan O'Reilly.

crashing into a timmy's is def not boring

 

[ManofSteel55]

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

I came to post Nuge as well.

Darnell Nurse. The entire world saw just how effective he was last playoffs espeically in the cup final.

Nurse is too chaotic to be boring.

 

[Xirik]

I came to post Nuge as well.


Nurse is too chaotic to be boring.

bet you miss Larsson's calming and boring playstyle, especially for a very chaotic Oilers team. It's sometimes nice to have a breather where you can relax when the puck is in the Oilers zone and you can just say "Larsson got it".

 

[Bouboumaster]

I agree with those who went with Danault