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#NHLTopPlayers: Nos. 20-11

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Jan 4, 2021 12:00 AM

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  • Point set NHL career highs in goals (41), assists (51) and points (92) in 2018-19, when he led the League with 20 power-play goals.
  • He was third on the Lightning with 64 points (25 goals, 39 assists) in 66 games, was plus-28 and won 51.1 percent of his face-offs last season.
  • In four NHL seasons, Point has scored 262 points (116 goals, 146 assists) in 295 games, and 21.6 percent of his goals (25) have been game-winners, including four in 2019-20.
  • He scored 33 points (14 goals, 19 assists) in 23 games during the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs to help the Lightning win the Cup.
  • The three-time Stanley Cup champion (2009, 2016, 2017) has scored at least 25 goals in 10 of his 14 NHL seasons and at least 70 points in 11 of the 14.
  • Malkin led the Penguins last season with 74 points (25 goals, 49 assists) and has averaged more than one point per game in each of the past nine seasons.
  • He was voted winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs in 2009 after scoring 36 points (14 goals, 22 assists) in 24 games during Pittsburgh's championship run and is fourth among active NHL players with 63 postseason goals.
  • Bergeron scored 56 points (31 goals, 25 assists), was plus-23 and averaged 18:44 of ice time in 61 games last season.
  • Eichel scored an NHL career-high 36 goals in 68 games last season and finished with 78 points, four below his high set in 2018-19.
  • 16, the start of a 17-game point streak (31 points; 16 goals, 15 assists) that was the longest in the NHL last season.
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  • Carlson led NHL defensemen in assists (60) and points (75), each an NHL career high, and tied his high from 2017-18 with 15 goals in 69 games last season.
  • Carlson was first among NHL defensemen in game-winning goals (six), second in power-play points (26; two goals, 24 assists) and tied for ninth in average ice time (24:38).
  • Video: Top 50 Players Right Now: John Carlson.
  • Josi won the Norris Trophy last season after setting NHL career highs in goals (16), assists (49) and points (65) in 69 games, ranking second among NHL defensemen in each offensive category
  • Among defensemen, he was fifth in power-play points (23; four goals, 19 assists), tied for seventh in plus-minus rating (plus-22) and tied for 33rd in blocked shots (108)
  • Josi has scored at least 53 points in five of six seasons since 2014-15 and ranks third among defensemen with 339 points (86 goals, 253 assists) during that span
  • Marchand scored 87 points (28 goals, 59 assists) in 70 games last season, the fourth in a row he's scored at least 85 points
  • During that span, he ranks fifth in the NHL with 357 points (137 goals, 220 assists) in 297 games
  • Marchand ranks second in the NHL during the past three postseasons with 52 points (20 goals, 32 assists) in 49 games, one point behind Lightning forward Nikita Kucherov
  • Few players have been more dynamic or consistent during the past decade than Kane, who finished eighth in the NHL last season with 84 points (33 goals, 51 assists)
  • He has scored at least 21 goals in each of his 13 NHL seasons and is third in points since entering the League in 2007 (1,022; 389 goals, 633 assists)
  • The right wing had a 15-game point streak (11 goals, 13 assists) from Nov