Every NHL Team's Most Important Player in the Next 3 Years

Now that the days left in the season are whittled down to single digits and teams are clinching playoff berths or a place in the lottery, it offers us an opportunity to take a look around the league and wonder which one player on each team is the most important one to them for the immediate future.

Is it the player who piles up goals and points to such a degree that it feels like it would be hopeless without them? What about the defenseman who plays more than 20 minutes per game and silences the opposing attackers? And what's to say of the goaltender who can cover up any and all mistakes on the ice and win games on their own? Most teams don't have all three of those, and the ones that do…