Players poll: Love-hate with Bruins’ Marchand

NHL gamers hate competing in opposition to Boston Bruins star Brad Marchand however they’d love him as a teammate, in accordance with a brand new NHL Gamers Affiliation ballot.

The NHLPA launched its annual participant ballot Wednesday, an nameless survey of 566 gamers on all 32 groups. One of many questions requested: “Which participant do you least take pleasure in taking part in in opposition to, however want to have in your group?” Marchand gained with 26.4% of the vote, adopted by Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid (18.3%) and Washington Capitals ahead Tom Wilson (10.7%).

McDavid gained the ballot for the skater that the majority gamers would need on their group in the event that they wanted a victory, with 42.4% of the vote. Sidney Crosby of the Pittsburgh Penguins was second at 17.3%. However Crosby gained probably the most coveted votes within the annual ballot for “most full participant,” amassing 29.5% of the vote. Crosby was additionally named the NHL’s finest position mannequin (42.7%).

Patrick Kane of the Chicago Blackhawks gained finest stickhandler in a landslide, with 57.3% of the vote. Edmonton Oilers heart Leon Draisaitl (17.7%) simply edged Kane (15.6%) and the Capitals’ Nicklas Backstrom (15.4%) for finest passer. Washington’s Alex Ovechkin was named the skater that gamers wished they might shoot the puck like essentially the most, with 53.1% of the vote; Toronto Maple Leafs heart Auston Matthews, who hit 60 objectives for the primary time this season, was second at 24.0%.

Andrei Vasilevskiy, who led the Tampa Bay Lightning to 2 straight Stanley Cups, was named the goalie that gamers would need to begin in a must-win sport with 37.4% of the vote, topping Carey Value of the Montreal Canadiens (13.9%).

In different classes, Dallas Stars heart and golf aficionado Joe Pavelski was named the participant most certainly to excel in one other sport; Cody Eakin of the Buffalo Sabres was voted as having the most effective hockey hair; and New Jersey Devils defenseman P.Okay. Subban was voted as the most effective social media observe.

Within the superlatives classes, Bell Centre in Montreal was voted as having the most effective ice (39.6%), Las Vegas was town by which gamers most wished to spend a time off (30.6%) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady was named the non-hockey athlete that the gamers would most wish to swap locations with for a day.

The NHLPA additionally named Canada’s Marie-Philip Poulin (43.2%) because the world’s finest ladies’s hockey participant, over Workforce USA star and ESPN analyst Hilary Knight (20.7%).