The NHL ranking anything feels a lot like asking me to rank my favorite desserts — arbitrary at best, heavily biased, not necessarily grounded in fact.
You don’t have to look much further than their much-derided 100 Greatest Players list, released in conjunction with the league’s centennial season. Almost immediately, criticism rolled in across the internet, calling out the absence of prominent players from all eras, including Evgeni Malkin, Joe Thornton, Pierre Pilote, Jarome Iginla, and Ed Belfour.
So when the NHL Network recently posted its list of the top 20 centers in the league, of course there was an immediate uprising on social media.