FDH Top 30 players in NHL

By Rick Morris

NOTE: These players are ranked based not merely on how they have produced this year, but also the past year or two.  These are not fantasy rankings, but are based on overall play.  Numbers in parentheses indicate where the players ranked on our 2012 rankings, with the ones who fell out of those rankings listed at the bottom.

TOP TIER

1 Sidney Crosby (1)

2 Steven Stamkos (3)

3 Alex Ovechkin (6)

4 Evgeni Malkin (4)

5 John Tavares (NA)

6 Henrik Lundqvist (4)

7 Jonathan Toews (26)

8 Pavel Datsyuk (18)

9 Patrick Kane (NA)

10 Erik Karlsson (7)

11 Martin St. Louis (29)

12 Claude Giroux (5)

13 Kris Letang (13)

14 Chris Kunitz (NA)

15 PK Subban (NA)

16 Henrik Zetterberg (NA)

17 Jimmy Howard (25)

SECOND TIER

18 Cory Schneider (NA)

19 Ryan Getzlaf (NA)

20 Eric Staal (NA)

21 Craig Anderson (NA)
22 Taylor Hall (NA)

23 Phil Kessel (NA)

24 Anze Kopitar (27)

25 Nicklas Backstrom (20)

26 Jakub Voracek (NA)

27 James Neal (14)

THIRD TIER

28 Henrik Sedin (9)

29 Zdeno Chara (10)

30 Daniel Sedin (11)

Jonathan Quick (8)

Jason Spezza (12)

Tim Thomas (15)

Mike Smith (16)

Pekka Rinne (17)

Marian Gaborik (19)

Ilya Kovalchuk (21)

Marian Hossa (22)

Shea Weber (23)

Alex Pietrangelo (24)

Ryan Kesler (28)

Brian Elliott (30T)

Jaroslav Halak (30T)