This list isn’t based on the past year, or the past 3 years. This is just a general assessment of who I think are the best and most valuable skaters RIGHT NOW.
rantanen, pastrnak, kucherov? also how does fox make this list, hes good but hes not that good. Also your sleeping on draisaitl
Draisaitl is an incredible player, but I don’t think he’s worthy at the moment of being considered better than the 2-4 spots on the list mainly because of his two-way play and relying too much on the power play to generate offence. His numbers at even strength are just above-average.
For Kuch, it’s all about his defence. He’s still the best offensive forward in the game, but his defensive effort has gotten to the point of being non-existent, and I expect it to stay that way.
Ranking Pasta in the top 10 would be a result of recency bias.
There’s definitely an argument for Rantenen, though.