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Most Underrated player in the league?
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:20 pm
by Griff83
List the player who you feel is most underrated by the General Public. My Choice is Ryan Whitney of Pittsburgh. When people talk about the Pens all you hear is Crosby, Malkin, Stall and Fluery. Meanwhile Whitney is just his 2nd season in the league finished 6th in the league in defencemen scoring.
14 goals
45 assists
59 points
+9
he is a good skater, very elite at moving the puck and is responsible in his own end.
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:27 pm
by UTMCretin
Ales Hemsky
Jason Blake
Kristian Huselius
Todd Marchant
Thomas Vanek
That's my decidedly random list. Not entirely sure about the general public's perception, so I just picked the first few players who came to mind as under-exposed.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:16 am
by ajaX82
UTMCretin wrote:Ales Hemsky
Jason Blake
Kristian Huselius
Todd Marchant
Thomas Vanek
That's my decidedly random list. Not entirely sure about the general public's perception, so I just picked the first few players who came to mind as under-exposed.
Good list. Hemsky is prolly #2 behind, imo, Marian Hossa. This guy should be seen as one of the greats in the league and he gets moderate attention. Rick Nash too in the terrible Columbus market gets not as much respect.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:01 am
by UTMCretin
I think Nash is rated rather appropriately considering he has never passed 57 points in a season. He's improved defensively under Hitchcock and become a more balanced player, but his production is still low for a guy who had so much hype going for him before the lockout
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:52 am
by ajaX82
UTMCretin wrote:I think Nash is rated rather appropriately considering he has never passed 57 points in a season. He's improved defensively under Hitchcock and become a more balanced player, but his production is still low for a guy who had so much hype going for him before the lockout
While true, he put up 54 pts in 05, while only playing in 54 games. I think its safe to say he would have topped 70 given a full season. And remember he is still playing on a terrible team. Who is giving him the puck to score? Nonetheless, he is still 23, so id say he has room to grow. And he is still an extremely talented star who is never really discussed, regardless of production.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:14 pm
by Crowned
I've always thought Havlat was rather underrated. He was putting up some nice numbers in Chicago. Give him a full healthy season, and he's going to produce.
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:17 pm
by Swift21
Mike Grier
Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:48 pm
by matt2727
Mike Fisher
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:07 am
by Southward1
Derek Roy
Tomas Kaberle
Cory Stillman
Tim Connelly
Kyle Wellwood
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:39 pm
by Islanders82
Marco Sturm
Rostislav Klesla
Scott Walker
Radim Vrbata
Duncan Keith
Mike Ribeiro
Vaclav Prospal
Pavol Demitra
Manny Fernandez
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:37 am
by RoyceDa59
Patrice Bergeron.
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:42 am
by Rodanlee
Martin Havlat
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:59 pm
by BringBackPopeye
mattias ohlund
ollie jokinen
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:06 pm
by Mr Swagtastic
Spezza is my vote, the guy is a great player does it all really. I agree with Royce as well.
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:45 am
by Nolan
Vanek for sure
Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:15 pm
by JurassicJake
Martin Straka
Martin Rucinsky
Trent Hunter
Michael Ryder
Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:06 am
by risktaker91
xbl_sucks wrote:Spezza is my vote, the guy is a great player does it all really. I agree with Royce as well.
Spezza is not underrated at all...
Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:24 pm
by JurassicJake
If anything Spezza is overrated. The guy gets all the credit for the line, eventhough its Heatly doing all the work. Don't get me wrong, he is a quality player, and he is invaluable to the Sens, but he does not deserve all the credit he gets.