Patrick Kane, Patrick Marleau, Dany Heatley, Nicklas Backstrom, Jonothan Toews, Jarome Iginla, Marc Savard, Marian Gaborik, Alexander Semin.
Not only is he by far the best player in the NHL today, he's in the conversation for best player in the history of the game. He's fourth in NHL history in points per game at 1.41, behind only Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Mike Bossy. He makes everyone around him better and does not need star wingers to excel. Is Sidney Crosby better than…OK, fine, Sidney Crosby is better than everyone. What follows is a list of the top 50 players in the NHL one quarter of the way through the 2013-14 season. It does not weigh the player's contract, age or team. I am going to be counting down the top ten best NHL players today. NOTE: Honour Roll to the players that missed the cut: Patrick Kane, Patrick Marleau, Dany Heatley, Nicklas Backstrom, Jonothan Toews, Jarome Iginla, Marc Savard, Marian Gaborik, Alexander Semin. Career Games: 621. Ilya Kovalchuk has gone six straight seasons with over forty goals. He is the second best goal scorer in the NHL and is a natural sniper. He has great speed. He is the THIRD best NHL player today. Steve Dryden-Senior Managing Editor, Hockey. Sidney Crosby is top of the TSN polls for a fifth straight year-reaffirming his status as the best hockey player in the world. Crosby was the overwhelming choice as the NHL’s No.1 player in balloting by a selection of league general managers and coaches and TSN experts.  We ended up with a ranking of the top 50 NHLers and we’ve been releasing that list in chunks of 10. Today, we finish with the top 10 players in the NHL and where they ranked on last year’s Top 50 (LY). Here is the rest of the list: But we’re concerned with what players do on the ice, and Giroux is arguably the most creative and deceiving set-up man in the NHL today. He might have been the best player in the league in the last 60 games of 2013-14. 10. Today I rank the Americans who are fortunate and talented enough to be top players in the National Hockey League. There are a lot of them in today’s NHL, and this is my ranking of the top 5 American Hockey players in the world today. Prospect Jack Eichel is a player that could be on this list in the future.  39 – Ryan Kesler. What a difference a year makes. Prior to the 2009-10 season the appearance of Ryan Kesler on a list of the top 50 best players in the NHL would have raised some eyebrows to say the least. When I set out to make this list of the top 50 best players in the NHL today I thought I’d given myself plenty of wiggle room. I figured once I’d gotten beyond 35 or so the challenge would be finding enough good players to complete the list. Top 10 Russian Hockey Players in the NHL Today. As recently as a decade ago, coming up with a list of the top 10 best Russian players in the NHL would have been challenging simply due to the fact that it would have been tough to find enough Russian NHL stars to populate a list. These days it is still a challenge, but for completely different reasons. We ended up with a ranking of the top 50 NHLers and we’re releasing that list in chunks of 10. Today, we present players ranked 11-20 in the NHL and where they ranked on last year’s Top 50 (LY). On Tuesday, we’ll share our top 10 NHL players. 11. SHEA WEBER | NASHVILLE | D | LY: 27. One of two things missing from Weber’s resume is a Norris Trophy View gallery. The player of the year isn’t the player with the best stats … although it nearly was. It’s about impact and mounting a memorable campaign in the last calendar year – and not just in the NHL. Here are Puck Daddy’s Top 10 Hockey Players of 2014. 10. 
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