Daily Faceoff Archetype Rankings: Who are the NHL’s 17 Franchise Players?
It’s that time of year again, the annual rite of passage in the NHL preseason, in which various publications rank the Top 50 or Top 100 players in the league – typically based entirely on subjective opinion.How exactly does one choose between Cale Makar and Nathan MacKinnon? They play two different positions, and they couldn’t be more different players. It’s an apples to oranges comparison to ask, “Who is better?” They’re both equally sublime.
In fact, NHL front offices have been working on similar archetypes projects for the last months and years. Archetype classification and rankings are known to be a big part of the team building process for Julien BriseBois and his two-time Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning. The best ones have properly categorized players because it helps in four important ways for team building:
4) Finally, it can allow teams to take it a step further and identify salary cap prices/averages to archetypes and identify potential value propositions based on how the rest of the league perceives and values certain roles. With some of the elite superstars left off the Franchise list, it becomes a bit easier to envision which archetype classification they might fall under. Gaudreau and Huberdeau are two of the elite passers and playmakers in the league, for instance, so you can expect them in the Distributor archetype ranking in the coming days.
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