The Top 50
By Wanye
15 years ago
We read Spector’s Hockey Blog with great regularity because:
- He is now the only writer for The Hockey News who doesn’t stroke the Leafs with delicate care
- He works for Fox Sports yet incredibly understands hockey, and doesn’t ask what happened to the glowing puck
- He links to the OilersNation on the rare occasion that it breaks news
Spector just told us that The Hockey News just released their top 50 players for the 2008-2009 season. And they are:
- Sidney Crosby
- Alex Ovechkin
- Henrik Zetterburg
- Pavel Datsyuk
- Vincent Lecavalier
- Niklas Lidstrom
- Roberto Luongo
- Jarome Iginla
- Evgeni Malkin
- Dany Heatley
- Chris Pronger
- Daniel Alfredsson
- Marian Gaborik
- Henrik Lundqvist
- Brendan Morrow
- Evgeni Nabokov
- Marian Hossa
- Ilya Kovalchuk
- Eric Staal
- Zdeno Chara
- Joe Thornton
- Dion Phaneuf
- Martin Brodeur
- J-S Giguere
- Martin St-Louis
- Scott Niedermayer
- Brian Rafalski
- Sergei Gonchar
- Marty Turco
- Ryan Getzlaf
- Andrei Markov
- Zach Parise
- Ales Hemsky
- Jason Spezza
- Vesa Toskola
- Rick Nash
- Joe Sakic
- Scott Gomez
- Ryan Miller
- Jonathan Toews
- Daniel Sedin
- Daniel Briere
- Anze Kopitar
- Miika Kiprusoff
- Paul Statsny
- Shane Doan
- Derek Roy
- Mark Savard
- Mike Richards
- Patrick Kane
Notes
First thing is first: #33, lambs—none other than the Hemskyianian One himself. Sorry Spezza. Sorry Nash. Sorry Briere.
Overrated
#7 Luongo? Try explaining that when the Canucks finish last in the Northwest.
#20 Zdeno Chara? Really? Is this list actually titled “Big donkeys who signed fortunate deals in Original Six Cities?”
#28 Sergei Gonchar? Huh? What year is this list from?
#46 Shane Doan? Zuh? How many strings did Gretzky have to pull to get him on this thing?
Underrated
#2 We would rank Ovi-One over Crosby any day.
#36 Poor Rick Nash. Brule isn’t the only player who suffered in Columbus the past few seasons.
Where is Henrik Sedin? He is the exact same player as Daniel. If one makes it, the other should tie at the same position.
And also…
Have you ever heard of The Sports Score Forecaster? They are new our favourite magazine for gambling degens, as they have picked the Oilers to finish THIRD in the Western Conference. And you have to pay $9.99 for the report. Suckers—we would happily pay $100 for a report that lists the Oil as winners of the Northwest in 2008–09
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