Penguins’ Sidney Crosby voted by the most complete player from the peers

Sidney Crosby According to his peers, he remains the most complete NHL player.

An annual survey of the Association of NHL players was released on Tuesday, with 663 members developing on 12 questions related to hockey. It is 10. Edition of the Players’ Survey.

Crosby, 37 -year -old Pittsburg penguins Star, was named the most complete NHL player for the sixth straight season. But his throne has a challenge: Crosby earned 33.81% of votes with Florida Panthers star Aleksander Barkkov (30.95%) right behind him. Annually, Barkkov reduced Crosby’s leadership for the price of 140 votes to only 18 votes.

Crosby was also appointed the smartest NHL player (27.02%) Tampa Bay Lightning star Nikita Kucharov (24.71%), as well as a player, his peers would most relied on overtaking the Vhai (20.39%) Nashville predators center Ryan O’Reilly (9.95%) who won the category last season. Kucherov was named the best NHL player (48.25%).

Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid He was also the winner of multiple categories and overall moved best (73.89%) Nathan Mackinnon from Colorado Avalanche (9.62%); and the best overall skater (66.41%) Cale Makar from an avalanche (11.41%), which was named the best overall defender of the NHL (71.78%) by a wide margin Quinn Hughes from Vancouver Canucks (7.44%).

The vote for the best goalkeeper offered the most surprising result of the survey. Connor Hellebuyck for Winnipeg Jetswho is expected to win his second straight trophy Vezina as the best goalkeeper of the league, ranked third in the vote (15.57%) for Tampa Bay Andrei Vasilevskiy (31.13%) and Igor SHESTERKIN from New York Rangers (23,58%).

In other superlatives, Boston Bruins forward David Pastrnak and Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews tied up for players with the best fashion sense (15.75%) while Kevin Hayes Of the penguins, he was named a player who would be the best transmitter after completing their game career. The Bell Center in Montreal won the best ice (44.96%) for the seventh season.

In the end, NHLPA members were asked what innovative rule from a professional female hockey league would like to see transferred to the NHL. The “escape prison” rule won 29.70% of the vote in which playing power for a smaller penalty ends if a short -term goal is scored. Right behind this was the PWHL’s Format of Three points for winning the regulation, two points for a shootout or overtime, and one point for a shootout or overtime loss.