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Where does Patrick Kane rank all time when he retires?

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Where does Patrick Kane rank all time when he retires?

  • Top 5

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Top 10

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Top 15

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Top 20

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Top 25

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Top 30

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Top 40

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Top 50

    Votes: 7 14.3%

  • Top 100

    Votes: 34 69.4%

  • Not even the top 100

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Total voters
    49
It really depends on when he retires and how many points he has when he does. If he plays like this for another 2 years or so after this season he's probably retiring top 20 all time in points. He's probably in the top 50 range and in my humble opinion the greatest american born player ever. Chelios himself admitted it :naughty:

jigglysquishy said:
I had him at 78th at the end of last season and third all time for Americans. He will likely be pushed back to fifth all time for Americans in the coming years.
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Which Americans from the 1940's do you have as better than Kane? I'm assuming the two new players who are pushing him down to fifth are Matthews and Q. Hughes? Big LOL to both
 
x Tame Impala said:
It really depends on when he retires and how many points he has when he does. If he plays like this for another 2 years or so after this season he's probably retiring top 20 all time in points. He's probably in the top 50 range and in my humble opinion the greatest american born player ever. Chelios himself admitted it :naughty:


Which Americans from the 1940's do you have as better than Kane? I'm assuming the two new players who are pushing him down to fifth are Matthews and Q. Hughes? Big LOL to both
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Chelios and Brimsek are both clearly better than Kane was. Brimsek gets underrated because people don't like the date on his birth certificate, but he was a goaltending phenom. He was widely considered, at worst, the third best goaltender of all time at retirement, which many considering him the best ever.

Chelios was a Norris finalist 6 times and a playoff warrior for the better part of 20 years. He played in a stacked era for defenseman.

Kane has the big Hart trophy season, but he was only top 5 in points 4 times.

Matthews is already close to Kane and will overtake him soon. Peak on peak they are close and Matthews continues to put up elite goal scoring seasons. Obviously there's an appreciable playoff gap.

Hellebucyk could overtake him as soon as this year. Three Vezinas is histroic territory.

Hughes is further down the line, but it's plausible he'll overtake Kane too. He's too young to tell at this point.
 
SeanMoneyHands said:
I say top 50 of all time and best American born player of all time, what about you?
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I think he's had a better career than LaFontaine, Leetch, Chelios, and Modano, but I think they are his main competition. Matthews and Jack Hughes might be coming.

EDIT: Should have said Quinn Hughes in the last sentence too.
 
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There have been way too many great players in the past. This league has been going for over 100 years.

So many players whose efforts I'm oblivious of.

Comparing Kane to players I have watched, I take Kane over Ronick, Chelios and Molgilny for all time great, but not Federov, Sakic, Modano or Niedermayer.

I feel top 100 choice is most deserving.

Just think of how many great players who played before the 50's that we don't know enough about to include in our top 100 lists.

Top 100 is very generous.
 
thadd said:
There have been way too many great players in the past. This league has been going for over 100 years.

So many players whose efforts I'm oblivious of.

Comparing Kane to players I have watched, I take Kane over Ronick, Chelios and Molgilny for all time great, but not Federov, Sakic, Modano or Niedermayer.

I feel top 100 choice is most deserving.

Just think of how many great players who played before the 50's that we don't know enough about to include in our top 100 lists.

Top 100 is very generous.
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The 1950s are consistently overrated and overrepresented in these types of lists.

It's not uncommon to see a list with 15 or more players from the 1950s (players born from 1924-1932 and raised during the Great Depression/WWII) but 7 or fewer players born in any 11 year span between 1974 and 1988. (Aside from those 7, there aren't any that are on the verge of breaking into that list by virtue of late career heroics).

And the talent pool was likely 4x smaller. Or at least that's the most credible estimate I've seen.

So half as much talent with 4x the talent pool? So Canada during the Great Depression was pumping out 8x per Capita the amount of high end players we are today? That seems unlikely.
 
Midnight Judges said:
The 1950s are consistently overrated and overrepresented in these types of lists.

It's not uncommon to see a list with 15 or more players from the 1950s (players born from 1924-1932 and raised during the Great Depression/WWII) but 7 or fewer players born in any 11 year span between 1974 and 1988. (Aside from those 7, there aren't any that are on the verge of breaking into that list by virtue of late career heroics).

And the talent pool was likely 4x smaller. Or at least that's the most credible estimate I've seen.

So half as much talent with 4x the talent pool? So Canada during the Great Depression was pumping out 8x per Capita the amount of high end players we are today? That seems unlikely.
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The fact remains that there were people playing hockey back then and very few of us take players from that era into account when we make our top 10 top 50 top 100 lists. And I'm not saying that that era deserves a large demographic of the top 100 today but they still deserve a presence nonetheless.
 
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Kane was a really good player. He also played on a really good team. He also played when scoring was down a bit.

For me he is top 100 but im not sure where. Maybe closer to 50 than 100? I don't know. I really started watching hockey around 2000. I'm not the right guy to rank all time greats.
 
thadd said:
The fact remains that there were people playing hockey back then and very few of us take players from that era into account when we make our top 10 top 50 top 100 lists. And I'm not saying that that era deserves a large demographic of the top 100 today but they still deserve a presence nonetheless.
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This is directed at @jigglysquishy as well...

Because the game has expanded so much and has become so much more talented. This is a 32 team league with players from all over the world. This should be an obvious distinction to all. That's not to say players in these far gone eras were crappy hockey players, merely that the skill level and game intensity has lapped their era many times over. They were in all likelihood fantastic athletes and the best of their time.

The game has just changed so drastically from then until now, in a way it hasn't really changed from the 90's until now, in a way it's not likely to change in the 2050's from now. Not to mention virtually no one alive has really watched these guys play. For argument's sake, let's say you should be a teenager as the cutoff to accurately remember and appreciate the impact a certain player had on the game at the time. 14 years old. That means you'd likely have to be born in the 1950's to appreciate players in the 06 era and you'd be 70+ years old.

Kane has more talent and faced tougher competition than Brimsek did. There's no chance in hell he's a worse hockey player than a goalie in the 1940's who didn't have to face 90+mph shots with composite sticks. That's a silly argument to make and you know it.
 
I don't know where I'd rank Kane all time. I haven't seen enough of these guys play as I haven't been a hockey fan until Kane himself was drafted to the Hawks. For whatever it's worth, Kane was voted as 8th best player of this century here on HF. Take that for what you will.

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wetcoast said:
Who is the 11th best player during the 21st century sof ar inspired by the ESPN top 25 this Century

Top 10 so far in the voting results are

1.Crosby
3. Ovechkin
3. McDavid
4. Lidstrom
5. Malkin
6. Brodeur
7. Kucherov
8. Kane
9. Mackinnon
10. Pronger

Also pick a player to add to the next poll please either from this ESPN list or nominate one.



18. Marc-Andre Fleury

25. Jonathan Quick
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There should be about a 100 players selected before him.
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