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I have a few more players:
Pierre Turgeon
Joe Nieuwendyk
Jeremy Roenick
Mike Modano
Nicklas Backstrom
I have this 5 as follows:
Modano
Backstrom
Turgeon
Nieuwendyk
Roenick
Any objections?
I have a few more players:
Pierre Turgeon
Joe Nieuwendyk
Jeremy Roenick
Mike Modano
Nicklas Backstrom
I have this 5 as follows:
Modano
Backstrom
Turgeon
Nieuwendyk
Roenick
Any objections?
I'd have Modano first and Nieuwendyk last. The other three are very close and in the same tier.
I have a spot for Modano and maybe Backstrom towards the end of the list. The other 3, I just don't see making it.
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Non-NHL Europeans that will be on my list somewhere that already didn't make the last 100 project.
Alexander Maltsev
Vladimír Martinec
Jiří Holeček
Valeri Vasiliev
Václav Nedomanský
Jan Suchý
Vladimir Petrov
Igor Larionov
Other possible candidates:
František Pospíšil
Vladimir Krutov
Sven "Tumba" Johansson
Alexei Kasatonov
Vladimír Dzurilla
Alexander Ragulin
Alexander Yakushev
Milan Nový
Weber ( possible)
Bergeron ( yes)
Marchand ( no)
Toews ( possible)
Getzlaf ( doubt it)
Doughty ( maybe)
Lundqvist ( yes)
Price ( possible)
Karlsson ( not in my top 100)
Hedman ( maybe)
I considered all of these guys. I think that I agree with a lot. Personally:
Bergeron- Yes
Marchand- No
Toews- Yes
Getzlaf- No
Doughty- Yes
Lundqvist- Yest
Price- No
Karlsson- He has to be but I feel like he's been overrated in the past 3 years
Hedman- Just not sure...
Non-NHL Europeans that will be on my list somewhere that already didn't make the last 100 project.
Alexander Maltsev
Vladimír Martinec
Jiří Holeček
Valeri Vasiliev
Václav Nedomanský
Jan Suchý
Vladimir Petrov
Igor Larionov
Other possible candidates:
František Pospíšil
Vladimir Krutov
Sven "Tumba" Johansson
Alexei Kasatonov
Vladimír Dzurilla
Alexander Ragulin
Alexander Yakushev
Milan Nový
Agree right down to Hedman.
For me he has to be a Yes.
Comparing a few Norris records:
Hedman: 1, 3, 3, 3, 7, 9
Doughty: 1, 2, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
Blake: 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 8
Niedermayer: 1, 2, 2, 5, 9, 10, 12
Add in playoffs, etc, my preliminary rank of them:
1. Doughty
2. Niedermayer
3. Hedman
4. Blake
But all reasonably close.
I have these in the same order. Adding Karlsson and Weber for a complete list of recent defensemen I'd consider for the list:
Karlsson: 1, 1, 2, 2, 7, 12
Weber: 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10
How I'd rank them:
1. Karlsson
2. Doughty
3. Niedermayer
4. Weber
5. Hedman
6. Blake
Comparing a few Norris records:
Hedman: 1, 3, 3, 3, 7, 9
Doughty: 1, 2, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9
Blake: 1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 8
Niedermayer: 1, 2, 2, 5, 9, 10, 12
Add in playoffs, etc, my preliminary rank of them:
1. Doughty
2. Niedermayer
3. Hedman
4. Blake
But all reasonably close.
I have these in the same order. Adding Karlsson and Weber for a complete list of recent defensemen I'd consider for the list:
Karlsson: 1, 1, 2, 2, 7, 12
Weber: 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10
Karlsson, if you include international and best on best tourneys, seems like he's definitely below Doughty and Niedermayer and above Weber, not sure about the other 2. My gut says below Hedman and above Blake.
I agree with your view on international play for NHL players. However, I think there's good reason to consider international play as more, or at least equally, important for non-NHL Europeans.I'm going to put a lot more stock in NHL play than international play for NHL players. It's a much, much larger, and I'd argue more important sample. To me, the only time I'm going to give heavy weight to best on best international play is Eastern Bloc players and other early Europeans, simply because it's the only way we can truly compare them to North Americans. Even then, I'm still going to give heavier weight to league play when comparing them to one another among countrymen.
I agree with your view on international play for NHL players. However, I think there's good reason to consider international play as more, or at least equally, important for non-NHL Europeans.
From what I've read the Soviets considered the international tournaments more important than their domestic league, sort of a regular season to playoffs relation in NHL terms, maybe. With the international tournaments being the playoffs, of course. I'm not sure if this was different for the CSSR where the domestic league seems to have been more competitive than the Soviet's most of the time, but I'm sure someone else here can give some insight on this. Also, most Iron Curtain era players who will be considered here will have played more than 100 games of international hockey over 7+ years so the sample size issue isn't an issue in the same way as for NHL players who rarely have more than 20GP in international best-on-bests.
One may very well argue Karlsson below Doughty due to the latter being a contributing factor on two Olympic gold medalists, but I don’t think that Karlsson has been qualitatively worse than Doughty in international tournaments. Karlsson led the 2014 Olympics (his only Olympic tournament) in scoring and was named the best defenseman of the tournament: he was definitely the most important player on that Swedish team.
Unfortunately for Karlsson, Doughty developed earlier and has one more successful Olympic tournament under his belt, thus I may also argue Doughty ahead on that specific parameter.
A friendly reminder just in case you or anyone else has thought of using gold medal count against Karlsson. Anze Kopitar has less Olympic medals than Matt Duchene, but I wouldn’t say his international career is less impressive with some context.
Re: Karlsson. It's easier to destroy than create. The more hockey I watch, the more I put a premium on creation. That doesn't mean I want Housley at 26th overall on the list, but Karlsson wasn't Housley...better said, Housley wasn't Karlsson...
Not saying put him, just saying, he's worth consideration...that was a special, special peak for me...