Favotite current NHL Players

[El Fangel]

Please spare me the Ovy and Sid comments, everyone loves them, yadda yadda yadda.

I have the template, so go through each team and tell us why you like who you do.

Anaheim -
Getzlaf - My favorite player in the game, one of the most well rounded out there and in my opinion is what a hockey player should be
Perry - See above

Atlanta - Kane - He could get by on the fact he knocked out Cooke, but the fact he is a ifted young player who plays with an edge, puts him on this list

Boston
Rask - Liked him from the first time he played in Providence
Lucic - Power forward with hands, my kinda player
Thomas - Persevarence and now on top at 36
Chara - One of the best dman in the game today, love watching him.

Buffalo -
Miller - One of the best in the game today
Myers - Chara Jr


Calgary -
Iggy - Same reasons I gave for Getzlaf, seems the years of carrying the team has caught up to him

Carolina

Skinner - Amazing player, with amazing hands.

Chicago -
Toews - One of the best at what he does

Colorado -
Duchene - Will be captain in 5-6 years in my opinion, guy is a born leader

Columbus -
Nash - Basically Getzlaf only a goal scorer
Umberger - Solid guy to have, love watching him on PK

Dallas -
Eriksson - Solid under the radar sniper

Detroit -
Datsyuk - Amazing at his position, best defensive forward in the game today
Howard - Guy toiled in the minors for 6 years to get his chance
Lidstrom - Best player in the game today, try to argue that I dare you.
Kronwall - His hits are fucking highlight reel after highlight reel

Oilers -
Eberle - Mr fucking Clutch

Florida -
Stillman - I remember watching this guy when I first got really into hockey, one of my all time favs

Los Angeles -
Doughty - Will be almost as good as Lidstrom someday
Kopitar - Model of how a player can still do his best on a terrible (a few years ago) team

Minnesota -
Backstrom - Doing as good as he does on a mediocre team is amazing
Brunette - Ironman, missed like 2 games in 9 years or something of the sort

Montreal -
Cammaleri - Always thought this guy was underrated
Price - hate his cockiness sometimes, but like the guy overall
Hamrlik - See Cammaleri
Gionta - Fiesty little bastard
Plekanec - Defensive and reliable forward

Nashville -
Weber - Big brusing dman with a cannon for a shot, whats not to like

New Jersey -
Brodeur - Marty is the man, just not this year.
Parise - Favorite american player, love this kid

New York Ilses -
Streit - Great underrated dman
Tavares - Liked the kid since I seen him in Junior
Roloson - At 41 is still good on a bad team

New York Rangers -
Del Zotto - Hate everyone in this team cept this guy

Ottawa -
Alfredsson - Gold, thats what this guy is, gold.

Philly -
Richards - 3 career 3 on 5 goals, premier PK guy, amazingly rounded player
Carter - great sniper
Pronger - One of my fav of all time

Phoenix -
Doan - Captaining a team no one cares about takes alot of effort
Jovanovski - Crushing hits and reliable dman

Pittsburgh -
Malkin - Amazingly good player would be better on another team
Staal - See above
Kennedy - The guy who never had a chance, made it to the big time

San Jose -
Thornton - Getzlaf, just a few years old, fucking love this guy
Marleau - Eyebrows make me lol

St. Louis -
Backes - Power forward with hands
Halak - 2010 Playoffs

Tampa - Stamkos - Amazing kid, who if he keeps the rate up has a legit shot at Gretzky season goal record
St. Louis - All time favorite RW, fiesty little guy who plays a dominint game
Downie - Power forward with good hands, loves to fight and if you knew his backstory, you would almost cry

Toronto -
Phaneuf - Too good to be playing in Torono
Kaberle - See above
Schenn - See above

Vancouver -
Luongo - Cant thank this wall enough for the Olympics
Sedins - Amazingly awesome set of players
Kesler - Is a player in the mold of Datsyuk, just slightly worse

Washington -
Backstrom - Doesnt get his due because of a certain player

[Stickman]

Sid, Ovechkin, Lucic.

[Arashi Kage]

FA, you have too many favorite players, lol. Traditionally, a favorite or favorites are a select few. :p

lol, I'm finally coming into acceptance of the new generation after all my favorite players from my childhood have retired.


Kris Letang - liked him as Captain of the world junior champs, he's finally finding the success that I expected of him in the NHL.

Drew Doughty - he played OHL in my hometown and I watched him play live many times, awesome that he made the Olympic team and played amazing.

Jason Spezza - always liked him for some reason, lol

Jonathan Toews - class act

Dion Phaneuf - was my favorite player on Calgary, now that he's on the Leafs, I'm sort of 'meh".


Not to hy-jack the thread, but my REAL favorite players:
Mario Lemieux
Paul Coffey

[weather vane]

MILAN LUCIC

[Zen v.W.o.]

My fave players at different times of my life:

Mario Lemieux
Dale Hawerchuk
Todd "the animal" Ewen
Shayne Corson
Darcy fucking Tucker
Jaromir "mario jr" Jagr
Richard Zednik
Carey "jesus" Price
Bob Probert
Joe Sakic

[Gertner]

Wade Belak: started off as a joke with my friends, but we became friends with Wade. He invites us down to Wings games and we shoot the breeze with him.
Colton Orr: bascially whoever is the current Leafs enforcer becomes a fav.
Ovechkin: just cause he's awesome
Sean Avery: I friggen LOVE Sean Avery. I know fans bitch about him but he's effective and one of the few players that are actually interesting and have a personality.
Really digging Stamkos right now as well as Drew Doughty.
My favourite goaltender is definitley Henrik Lundqvist.

Players I hate: Alfredsson, Maxim Lapierre and Dan Carcillo, although I hate Carcillo kinda the same reason I hate Lucic, because their fans claim they are the toughest in the league and never lose fights. I'd kill to have them both on the Leafs though.

[OssMan]

Mike Grier

[XCaliber]

Brad Richards

[KleptoKlown]

Kesler - Is a player in the mold of Datsyuk, just slightly worse




I'd take Kesler over Datsyuk simply for durability.

To answer the question: Milan Lucic for me. Reminds me of Cam Neely. I'm still pissed about the Canucks trading Neely. I hope the Canucks can sign Lucic away from Boston...I know it's unlikely, but Milan was born in Vancouver, played for the Giants(MVP while winning the Memorial Cup.) He has a big fan base in Vancouver, so if any team could do it, its the Nucks.

[Adder]

Probably go with Toews right now.

[Gertner]

No more Belak :(