Choosing NHL's top franchise player.
Craig Custance asked a dozen NHL executives, coaches and players to send in their top five franchise picks, in order, then assigned point values for each vote to come up with an overall ranking.
To keep things simple, there were no other factors brought to the table. It was simply a request to pick the five best players to build a franchise around. In all, the panel is made up of four current team executives (assistant GM or GM), one former GM, four current head coaches, one respected assistant coach and a player from each conference. The ballot of one of the coaches was excluded from the point total because he preferred not to rank them in any particular order. (The excluded ballot looked like this: Jonathan Toews, Steven Stamkos, Drew Doughty, Shea Weber and Jamie Benn.)
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The List:
1. Jonathan Toews (43)
2. Sidney Crosby (41)
3. Drew Doughty (21)
4. Ryan Getzlaf (8)
5. Nathan MacKinnon/Shea Weber (7)
6. Anze Kopitar/John Tavares (6)
7. Carey Price/Steven Stamkos (5)
8. P.K. Subban (4)
9. Evgeni Malkin (2)
