The Hockey News Top 50 Rankings & Predictions

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Top 50 players

1. Sidney Crosby
2. Alex Ovechkin
3. Henrik Zetterberg
4. Pavel Datsyuk
5. Vincent Lecavalier
6. Nicklas Lidstrom
7. Roberto Luongo
8. Jarome Iginla
9. Evgeni Malkin
10. Dany Heatley
11. Chris Pronger
12. Daniel Alfredsson
13. Marian Gaborik
14. Henrik Lundqvist
15. Brenden Morrow
16. Evgeni Nabokov
17. Marian Hossa
18. Ilya Kovalchuk
19. Eric Staal
20. Zdeno Chara
21. Joe Thornton
22. Dion Phaneuf
23. Martin Brodeur
24. J-S Giguere
25. Martin St-Louis
26. Scott Niedermayer
27. Brian Rafalski
28. Sergei Gonchar
29. Marty Turco
30. Ryan Getzlaf
31. Andrei Markov
32. Zach Parise
33. Ales Hemsky
34. Jason Spezza(a legjobb harmincban benne lehetne, de más hozzáállással persze)
35. Vesa Toskala
36. Rick Nash
37. Joe Sakic
38. Scott Gomez
39. Ryan Miller
40. Jonathan Toews
41. Daniel Sedin
42. Daniel Briere
43. Anze Kopitar
44. Mikka Kiprusoff
45. Paul Stastny
46. Shane Doan
47. Derek Roy
48. Marc Savard
49. Mike Richards
50. Patrick Kane


Predictions 08-09

East
1. Montreal
2. Pittsburgh
3. Washington
4. Philadelphia
5. Ottawa(ez így egész megtisztelő)
6. New York Rangers
7. New Jersey
8. Carolina
9. Tampa Bay
10. Boston
11. Buffalo
12. Florida
13. Atlanta
14. Toronto
15. New York Islanders

West
1. Detroit
2. San Jose
3. Minnesota
4. Dallas
5. Anaheim
6. Edmonton
7. Chicago
8. Calgary
9. Nashville
10. Phoenix
11. Vancouver
12. Columbus
13. Los Angeles
14. Colorado
15. St-Louis