Connor McDavid, Quinn Hughes, $54,000,000 Avalanche Star Leads NHL Analyst's List of Top 30 Players in 2030

Connor McDavid, Quinn Hughes, $54,000,000 Avalanche star leads NHL analyst's list of Top 30 players in 2030

NHL analyst Paul Pidutti of the Daily Faceoff unveiled his highly anticipated list of the Top 30 players expected to dominate the ice in 2030, and the results are nothing short of captivating.

NHL 2030: Oilers’ McDavid, Draisaitl expected to lead league into next decade

On Wednesday, Daily Faceoff’s Paul Pidutti published a list titled NHL 2030, aiming to predict how the league’s top 30 will shape up in five years. Leon Draisaitl nabbed the 23rd spot from the Edmonton Oilers while, unsurprisingly, Connor McDavid came in at number one. Amongst the crop of named defe

Flyers’ Matvei Michkov stupidly ignored in top NHL player projection

Philadelphia Flyers phenom Matvei Michkov was somehow getting completely ignored in an exercise projecting who the top NHL players will be five years from now. The list is slightly ridiculous. We’re in the deepest canyon of the NHL offseason. Nothing is happening. People are thinking about low-end unrestricted free agents like Jack Roslovic and Victor Olofsson, who might not even finish the season in the league. It’s the worst time. So, naturall…

NHL 2030: Projecting the league’s top 30 players in five years - Daily Faceoff

Take a moment and picture the NHL five years from now. It’s the Year 2030. Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin are retired. Patrick Kane, Drew Doughty, Erik Karlsson… all are long gone. Even Gary Bettman packed it in. Nikita Kucherov and Connor Hellebuyck are 37. Nathan MacKinnon and Leon Draisaitl will turn 35 in the Fall of 2030. The NHL’s talent landscape will have had a major makeover. We’ll all be five years older too. And Father Time will rema…