Top 10 Players Of The Last Decade

[Carman 387]

What I can't believe there are 2 players that only dominated the league for half the decade actually on the all-decade team. That makes no sense, I'd much rather have above average players that played the whole decade that didn't dominate their peers to be on the list before players who actually were the best players and in their prime for half a decade...

[dropkickshanahans 463]

The list would be completely different if that was the case. Why would they call it best players of the decade when they mean best players right now?

That's not what I meant. Since 05-06, nobody has touched Crosby and Ovechkin over that span, and the creators felt that was good enough to warrant a spot on the list, let alone 3rd and 4th.

[CopenhagenWing 38]

Nick is undoubtedly the best player of the decade, and he would have 7 if it wasn't for the lockout and could be in a position to tie Bobby O.

If Lidstrom's birth certificate listed Regina as his place of birth, he would've passed Orr already.

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If Lidstrom's birth certificate listed Regina as his place of birth, he would've passed Orr already.

If you go back and have the voters vote with Lidstrom as a Canadian, he might have 10 or 11 Norrises by now.

[Guest CaliWingsNut]

Like the person said before, it's subjective, so it's easy to say what most of the posters on here want to say according to first glance of the title's meaning of the list. Everyone believes that Ovie and Crosby need a full decade in order to even be mentioned on the list, but that's not how I looked at it.

I think the list has a little bit to do with everything over the stretch of the decade, season dominance, playoffs and cups won, etc. You believe Ovechkin and Crosby shouldn't be ranked 3 and 4, which is fine; I can see where you're coming from. But the way I believe the creators of the list looked at it was if you take a look back at this decade, which players have been the most dominate? If a person argued that they believe Alfredsson should be on this list because of the amount of points he's racked up over the span of a decade, would that person then say he would rather have Alfredsson on his team than Ovechkin, given what we've seen of him this year and the past 4 years and his total dominance? Nope, he'd pick Ovechkin over Alfredsson everytime. Who's the bigger threat on the ice, Ovechkin or Heatley? This is where I think the creators are coming from.

I key in on Ovechkin because he's the one player that has the ability to take over games compared to Crosby (aside from the playoffs last season). Crosby gets his points but other than that I've never known him to be someone to take over a game the way Ovechkin can. Therefore I believe Crosby should be lower on the list.

As for Malkin, well, it's a list of the best 10, and Jagr is probably more deserving of the #10 spot than Malkin is in their eyes., which is hard to argue with; Jagr's had some pretty dominate seasons this decade.

Who was the bigger threat in 2003? This is a decade list.

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Who was the bigger threat in 2003? This is a decade list.

And Ovechkin has been the league's most dominant offensive player for four years, with almost as many points this decade as Heatley has. It's like this: if one player scores two goal and two assists in the first period of a team's 7-5 win, and is injured with 3 minutes to go in the first and is out for the game, and another player scores two goals and two assists over the course of the game, who should be the star of the game? The guy who put up four points in less than a period, or the other guy who put up four points over the course of the game?

[akustyk 84]

And Ovechkin has been the league's most dominant offensive player for four years, with almost as many points this decade as Heatley has. It's like this: if one player scores two goal and two assists in the first period of a team's 7-5 win, and is injured with 3 minutes to go in the first and is out for the game, and another player scores two goals and two assists over the course of the game, who should be the star of the game? The guy who put up four points in less than a period, or the other guy who put up four points over the course of the game?

Steve Mason's save percentage for 2008-09 season was 2.16

Dominic Hasek's save percentage for his entire career was 2.20

Patty Wah's was 2.53

so much for the numbers, thank you