Top 10 Best NHL Players of All Time

[Michael Farkas]

Uh oh...we don't need to break out the shift by shift videos do we...?

 

[1909]

I want to know who yhall's top 10 Players of all time are, this list includes foward's, defensemen, and goalies.

My List
1. Wayne Gretzky
2. Mario Lemuiex
3. Connor Mcdavid (assuming his career stays on track)
4. Bobby Orr
5. Sidney Crosby
6. Alexander Ovechkin
7. Dominik Hasek
8. Nicklas Lindstrom
9. Gordie Howe
10. Jaromir Jagr

Lemieux

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Lemieux

Lemieux is your top ten player of all-time?

 

[buffalowing88]

Lemieux is your top ten player of all-time?

Maybe he's a Claude guy.

The arguments made here are really great. I can't say it shifted me on Hull > Ovechkin, but it gave me a newfound appreciation of the metrics used to try and compare these guys from very different eras.

My only contribution is that Hull tops Ovie in the pure run of First Team All-Star selections. That tells me that he was a notch above everyone else, but we can argue whether or not the growth of the league since then has hurt or helped...

 

[Hockey Outsider]

There's been a lot of discussion on Hull vs Ovechkin in this thread. I think there's a meaningful difference between their playoff performances (see thread).

I don't think that the edge is so decisive that it necessarily means we have to rank Hull higher. But we should be doing a deeper dive than saying (paraphrasing) "both were the best players on teams that didn't win as much as they should have".

 

[VistamarCroissants]

Honourable mention: Gilbert Perreault