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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
I guess I'm one of the few who have virtually no problem with this list. There are always a couple of omissions or ranking order questions, but I look at that list and i sorta say to myself "yup, looks about right".
One thing that was obvious to me was that only 4 players in the top 30 did not make the playoffs last year: McDavid, Karlsson, Tavares, and Seguin. Hard to rank Gaudreau ahead of any of those players IMO. 8 out of the next 20 on the list didn't make the playoffs last year, so it's clear that the higher ranks are reserved for players that can get you to the playoffs except for some clearly elite players.
If you want to see Flames players higher on this list, then they need to make the playoffs, and preferably make some noise in the playoffs.
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I'm not sure that the playoffs should play heavy in criteria when judging the top players. It's not Monahan and Gaudreau's fault they had poor coaching and below average goaltending and a lot of good players on bad teams have that same argument.