Most Underrated player in the league?

Griff83 · Post #1 » by **Griff83** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:20 pm

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.

Post #2 » by **UTMCretin** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:27 pm

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.

Post #3 » by **ajaX82** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:16 am

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.

Post #4 » by **UTMCretin** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:01 am

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

Post #5 » by **ajaX82** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:52 am

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.

Post #6 » by **Crowned** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:14 pm

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.

Swift21 · Post #7 » by **Swift21** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:17 pm

Mike Grier

matt2727 · Post #8 » by **matt2727** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:48 pm

Mike Fisher

Southward1 · Post #9 » by **Southward1** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:07 am

Derek Roy
Tomas Kaberle
Cory Stillman
Tim Connelly
Kyle Wellwood

Islanders82 · Post #10 » by **Islanders82** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:39 pm

Marco Sturm
Rostislav Klesla
Scott Walker
Radim Vrbata
Duncan Keith
Mike Ribeiro
Vaclav Prospal
Pavol Demitra
Manny Fernandez

RoyceDa59 · Post #11 » by **RoyceDa59** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:37 am

Patrice Bergeron.

Rodanlee · Post #12 » by **Rodanlee** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:42 am

Martin Havlat

BringBackPopeye · Post #13 » by **BringBackPopeye** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:59 pm

mattias ohlund
ollie jokinen

Post #14 » by **Mr Swagtastic** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 4:06 pm

Spezza is my vote, the guy is a great player does it all really. I agree with Royce as well.

Post #15 » by **Nolan** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:45 am

Vanek for sure

JurassicJake · Post #16 » by **JurassicJake** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:15 pm

Martin Straka
Martin Rucinsky
Trent Hunter
Michael Ryder

risktaker91 · Post #17 » by **risktaker91** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 3:06 am

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...

JurassicJake · Post #18 » by **JurassicJake** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:24 pm

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.