Power Forward Ranking #1

[RapidKnight]

Please choose the best power forward today. Use any criteria.

Note: This won’t necessarily represent a best overall players list. Some will put emphasis on power forward qualities while others will choose the best overall player whom they consider a power forward.

I will continue series until interest fades. Suggest who to add!

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[wintersej]

Meier should really already be on the list. To me, Ovi, Svech, Brady, Wilson and Meier are the top choices in some order.

 

[ViD]

Val

 

[ghostingtaro]

Ovie and its not even close

 

[biturbo19]

I say Kreider. He's pretty much the epitome of the "contemporary power forward". Big, fast, powerful, physical. Scores a lot the way you tend to expect a "power forward" to. Driving the net, crashing the crease, plowing through traffic to where he's adept at tipping and redirecting pucks and banging in rebounds.


Someone like Ovechkin has obvious "power forward" qualities to his game, but there's also a lot of his game that's much more "finesse scorer". So i don't tend to think of him as a real "power forward" per se.

 

[Ignite111]

I say Kreider. He's pretty much the epitome of the "contemporary power forward". Big, fast, powerful, physical. Scores a lot the way you tend to expect a "power forward" to. Driving the net, crashing the crease, plowing through traffic to where he's adept at tipping and redirecting pucks and banging in rebounds.


Someone like Ovechkin has obvious "power forward" qualities to his game, but there's also a lot of his game that's much more "finesse scorer". So i don't tend to think of him as a real "power forward" per se.

Lol

 

[Regal]

Lol

Lol

 

[swiftwin]

I say Kreider. He's pretty much the epitome of the "contemporary power forward". Big, fast, powerful, physical. Scores a lot the way you tend to expect a "power forward" to. Driving the net, crashing the crease, plowing through traffic to where he's adept at tipping and redirecting pucks and banging in rebounds.


Someone like Ovechkin has obvious "power forward" qualities to his game, but there's also a lot of his game that's much more "finesse scorer". So i don't tend to think of him as a real "power forward" per se.

Like this?


Also, Matthew Tkachuk is not a power forward. Are you kidding me? Might as well add Marchand if we're adding skilled pests who play with an edge.

 

[The Nuge]

Ovi. Add Kane

 

[RapidKnight]

Like this?


Also, Matthew Tkachuk is not a power forward. Are you kidding me? Might as well add Marchand if we're adding skilled pests who play with an edge.

Excluding M. Tkachuk would be stretching the definition pretty thin in my opinion. He still hits, shoots, and crashes the net far more often than Marchand. Rebuttal: How many pass-first players drive the net more often than Tkachuk?

 

[tarheelhockey]

Ovechkin until he stops ringing up 50-goal seasons.

 

[Kcb12345]

I'd add Mason Marchment to this list

 

[Mitts]

Huberdeau had more hits than Tkachuk last year, Chucky is no power forward.

 

[ole ole]

Huberdeau had more hits than Tkachuk last year, Chucky is no power forward.

Neither is Nichushkin and he's on the list.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

I would take Brady Tkachuk.

Add Sam Bennett, remove Matthew Tkachuk.

Excluding M. Tkachuk would be stretching the definition pretty thin in my opinion. He still hits, shoots, and crashes the net far more often than Marchand. Rebuttal: How many pass-first players drive the net more often than Tkachuk?

Matthew Tkachuk is not a power forward. He's a finesse player who goes to the dirty areas. He lacks the speed and power to really be considered a power forward. And he only throws like 1 hit per game.

 

[ijuka]

Brady Tkachuk is a power forward. Matt Tkachuk is a rat-type skill player like Marchand, not a power forward.

Considering some names you added, why do you not have Evgeni Malkin? He's more of a power forward than half the list.

 

[QJL]

Right now, Matthew Tkachuk is a better overall hockey player than Alexander Ovechkin.

 

[jbeck5]

I think we first need to discuss what a power forward is.

You should be near the top of the league in scoring and physical stats.

A lot of these players don't meet the criteria.

Growing up I used to see 40 goals and 100pims as the minimum. There was lower goal scoring for a bit so I accepted 30 goals and 100pims in the 2000s. But now the scoring is back up and the fighting is down, so maybe 40 goals and 80 pims?

We should set some basic definitions or else everyone will be bickering about if players are power forwards or not.

 

[NyQuil]

I mean, as far as traditional power forwards go, Brady Tkachuk led the league in fights last year as well IIRC.

 

[Miro4Norris]

Josh Anderson just like last year lmao?

Ovi is far from power forward he was power forward 13 years ago. Power forwards do power forward things they don't stand on the p point waiting other guys to drive the play and pass them puck

Matt Tkachuk is the right answer and he's better than Ovi as a overall player anyways

 

[wintersej]

The list of guys that would have been considered power forwards in the Neely or Lindros style is small indeed. Makes these polls hard in this era because big + fast + hits + fights + scores is a lot harder to come by in a league that has deemphasized hitting and fighting and especially stars fighting. Like is Tom Wilson *really* the only one? You end up having to make some judgments on how much you are willing to fudge with the definition. Ovi checks a lot of boxes. He sure isn't throwing fists everywhere. Is that OK? He only throws the body in big games or the playoffs. Is that OK?

 

[Pinto Bean]

There are better players on this list then Brady but if we're relating to players to specifically to the Power Forward play style I'd have a hard time seeing someone beating him.

He's always a top guy in hits, fights, goals off powerful drives to the net, and is an absolute horse around the crease and generates an absurd amount of shots from that area.

So he's dominant physically, fights, produces and scores goals how typical PWF's score goals. He lacks the skill & finesse that some of these other guys have, but purely in the power-forward sense, it just might be him.

 

[Tralfamadore]

Nichushkin. Obviously.

 

[sennysensen]

Is Nichushkin really a power forward? I get that he's big, forechecks, protects the puck well, etc. But how many big hits has he given? How many fights has he been in? How often does he intimidate opponents physically?

I guess it comes down to definition of power forward. Back in the day, when Lindros was the top power forward, some people considered Jagr a PF. I suppose if Jagr is a PF, Nichushkin is.

I tend to stick to the old definition of a PF, if you don't give out big hits, rough up players on the other team, or fight capably, you're not a true PF.

 

[RapidKnight]

I would take Brady Tkachuk.

Add Sam Bennett, remove Matthew Tkachuk.


Matthew Tkachuk is not a power forward. He's a finesse player who goes to the dirty areas. He lacks the speed and power to really be considered a power forward. And he only throws like 1 hit per game.

I can’t remove Tkachuk as a mediator here. Personally, I’d still consider him a power forward but he’d be lower on my list for the very reasons you described. Will count your vote for Bennett.