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 | | Crosby is the best hockey player of the XXI century according to Sportsnet. Ovechkin-2nd, McDavid-3rd, Datsyuk-7th, Kucherov-8th, Malkin-19th29.04.2025 |
Alexander Ovechkin became the 2nd in the ranking of the best hockey players of the 21st century from Sportsnet. The Canadian site chose the TOP-25 players. To get into the rating, the hockey player was supposed to spend at least 400 matches in regularities from the 1999/00 season to date.
only the achievements earned in this century were considered. Sportsnet notes that Yaromir Yagr was not included in the list of this criterion.
Rating of the best players of the 21st century is as follows:
1. Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh);
2. Alexander Ovechkin (Washington);
3. Connor McDavid (Edmonton);
4. Niclas Lidstrom;
5. Martin Broder;
6. Netan McKinnon (Colorado);
7. Pavel Datsyuk;
8. Nikita Kucherov (Tampa Bay);
9. Patrick Kane (Detroit);
10. Victor Hedman (Tampa Bay);
11. Jerome Iginla;
12. Chris Pringer;
13. Patrice Bergeron;
14. Scott Netermayer;
15. Oston Matthews (Toronto);
16. Dankan Kit;
17. Leon Dreseitl (Edmonton);
18. Drew Dauti (Los Angeles);
19. Evgeny Malkin (Pittsburgh);
20. Jonathan Taves;
21. Joe Sacchik;
22. Joe Thornton;
23. Zdino Hara;
24. Angei Capitar (Los Angeles);
25. Carey Price.
Note: The current teams of existing players are indicated in brackets.
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