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50 Top NHL Players
Alexander Ovechkin or Sidney Crosby? Who is No. 1 out of the NHL's 700 or so players?
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Top 50 NHL Players
KK Hockey — ... exceptional goals, the kind of goals that made the difference in some especially close wins for his team. 1. Alexander Ovechkin, Washington An exceptional talent, a born scorer, a player who brings intensity to every game. 2. Sidney Crosby, Pittsburgh He’s maintained an average of 1.56 goals per game since his start in the NHL. 3. Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit He can do anything on ice. read on

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Habs Inside/Out — ... Colorado had to make some moves to appease the bottom line. Tanguay was shipped to Calgary, where he had one good season, in 2006-07, followed by a bad one last year under Flames coach Mike Keenan. Long story short, Tanguay was shipped out again, this time to his home province of Quebec to play for the Canadiens. No pressure, Alex, but the Habs need you to return to your scoring ways so they can claim their 25th Cup in their 100th anniversary season.  • Yvon Pedneault's Top 50 players.    • Eugene Melnyk says expansion to Europe will ...

Sidney Sets New Record...Gretzky Eclipsed
The Peerless Prognosticator — The Toronto Sun offers up its take on the top 50 players in the NHL today. Surprisingly (Toronto being in Canada, last time we looked), they ranked Alex Ovechkin number one among the top 50. ...

Hot Clicks: How to cheer up Cubs fans
SI.com - Extra Mustard — ... during the Predators-Thrashers game in Prague on Friday. We also learned a lot from this list of the NHL's top 50 players. ...

Four Wings crack Sun Media's Top 50 player list
Snapshots — Sun Media's Yvon Pendault tasked himself with assessing the NHL's top 50 players, and Red Wings forward Henrik Zetterberg ranks third on his list, behind Alex Ovechkin and Sidney Crosby. Four other Red Wings made his list, but the ranking of the last one is a stunner: October 7, Sun Media : 3. Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit : He can do anything on ice. ... 7. Nicklas Lidstrom, Detroit : Unique in defence, in a class of his own. A magician on the blue line. 8. Pavel Datsyuk, Detroit : Good scorer, focused and very fast. ... 13. Marian Hossa, Detroit : He proved his worth with a ...

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