" Here I'm talking about the overall game " but Ovechkin before Marchand and Kucherov 5th?

Even though some of them are interchangeable, this is a near perfect list.

SOME of them are interchangeable, for instance I moved the Gs back and forth quite a few times, same goes for RW. Swap Ovi and Marchy if you want, I'd be on board with that

I have a question. Why is Chabot so low, and Heiskanen above Dahlin? I think Dahlin’s better. I think Chabot is better than both Heiskanen, and Slavin honestly, and of course Dahlin. Also Gibson? I have him second behind Vasilevskiy.

I forgot about Gibson, good point

And as it stands, I believe Heiskanen is the best young d-man in the league. IMO Dahlin will be better than Chabot by the end of next season

Okay, I just think Dahlins better than Heiskanen, and he plays on a bad Buffalo team so that doesn’t help either. If he played on Dallas he would be better in my opinion.

move kuch to the top and move the rest of the list down

I think Dahlin is the next Ekblad. He will just plateau as a medium #1D. Where as Chabot was at a PPG when Duchene, Dzingel and Stone were still here. Give him high quality offensive guys and a decent partner and he can easily do that again.

I do believe RD will bring a bit more offense to the table than Ekblad but that's not the craziest comparison, gotta give you that

Craziest thing is Chabot played over 26 mins per game last year and played a ton of 30 minute games. Like playing with Zaitsev definitely held him back a bit too

I also think Quinn Hughes will take a step back this year. JT Miller and that whole team I feel like they played out of their minds this past year, idk if they consistently do that

Kuch and Kane are the best RWs

Dont change anything. It's your list and your opinion

I do wonder (just to discuss) - do you value Mackinnons overall game here? Because he is much more like Crosby but he can keep up with McDavid offensively. Mackinnon can play hard and his advanced stats show (I believe if I remember them correctly for 2019-2020) that he is amazing everywhere on the ice - his defensive play boasts he’s awesome in his own end yet he still has the speed and raw talent to make superstar efforts offensively

Because I’d have mackinnon number one personally - I agree mcdavid crosby and mackinnon are the best players on the world and all kinda have their own argument as to who’s number one. But mackinnon and mcdavid over Crosby for me (again personally) but I think mackinnon took the edge this year for me