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Congrats Henrik Sedin on Making TSN's Top-50 Players poll for start of 2015-16 season

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TSN Hockey's Top 50 Players

Sidney Crosby remains the only player to be ranked No. 1 in the six-year history of TSN's Top 50 Players poll, but his edge as the best player in the world may be slipping.

For the first time, Crosby was not the overwhelming recipient of first-place votes, garnering just 44 per cent. In three previous polls, Crosby accounted for more than 80 per cent of the first-place votes. Crosby, 28, finished third in the NHL's points race last season, but still led the league in points-per-game in an overall down year for scoring.

Some of Crosby's biggest rivals believe Crosby deserves to still be No. 1.

"I think he's on top, rightfully so, to be honest," said Flyers forward Jakub Voracek, who joined the Top 50 club for the first time. "He had 84 points last year and everybody's saying what a down season he had. I had 81 points and everybody said how great of a season I had.

"The guy has been on top since he got into the league. It's pretty impressive that he's been at the same level for so long, considering the injuries he's had in his career. Different people have different opinions, but I think if you were to ask players, they would say Crosby is on top."

A selection of TSN Hockey experts and NHL general managers were surveyed and asked to project the Top 50 players in 2015-16.

Jonathan Toews and Carey Price both stole first-place votes away from Crosby in this year's poll. Toews finished No. 2 for the second straight year; Price climbed 21 spots to No. 3 after capturing the Hart, Vezina and Ted Lindsay trophies last season.

Crosby still managed to make an impact on the rest of the poll. His new linemate, Phil Kessel, improved two positions (to No. 36) even after the worst season of his career.

Riding sky-high expectations, Connor McDavid became the first player to make the TSN Top 50 before appearing in an NHL game. McDavid, 18, ranked No. 37, but second-overall pick Jack Eichel did not make the cut.

In all, 13 newcomers helped bump off three mainstays who were featured in all five previous polls: Joe Thornton, Zdeno Chara and Eric Staal.

The league, as a whole, is trending younger. More than half of the Top 50 players are 23 to 27-years-old, most not old enough yet to become unrestricted free agents.

No player made a bigger jump than Vladimir Tarasenko, who went from being unranked to No. 14 thanks to his electrifying 73-point season. Tarasenko, 23, signed the largest ($60 million) contract of the off-season.

Victor Hedman (No. 21) and Voracek (24) also cracked the Top 25 after being unranked. Other newcomers for this year included Mark Giordano (27), Tyler Johnson (28), Pekka Rinne (29), Max Pacioretty (32), Roman Josi (40), Rick Nash (41), Brent Burns (45), Braden Holtby (49) and Henrik Sedin (50). Nash, Rinne and Sedin were all ranked in previous year's polls, but not last season.

Notable exclusions included Tuukka Rask, David Krejci, Nathan MacKinnon, Gabriel Landeskog, Jeff Carter and Patrick Sharp.

Steven Stamkos also fell for the first time in the six-year history of the poll, sinking from third to sixth.

Six teams failed to rank any players among the Top 50: Buffalo, Carolina, Florida, New Jersey, Toronto and Winnipeg. Panthers' defenceman Aaron Ekblad was just on the outside at No. 51.

The poll results: http://www.tsn.ca/crosby-no-1-for-sixth-straight-year-on-tsn-s-top-50-list-1.368712

Good to see a Canuck being recognized for the great season they had.

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RECONGNIZED!?!?! DANIEL SEDIN WAS 8TH IN POINTS LAST YEAR AND HE WAS A PLUS PLAYER. WHY ISNT HE ON THE LIST???

BECAUSE MCDAVID HAS A SPOT.

AND CROSBY AT #1??? GIVE ME A BREAK

Defensemen and Goalies don't rack up as many points and can be quite valuable to their teams.

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Defensemen and Goalies don't rack up as many points and can be quite valuable to their teams.

True but still when a guy finishes 8th overall in scoring he should be considered among the top 50, even when you factor in Dman and goalies. I mean Daniel outscored Tarasenko last year but Tarasenko went from unranked to 14th overall and Daniel doesn't even make the list, that makes no sense!!

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The twins have been underappreciated throughout their entire careers (even when they were winning Art Ross/Ted Lindsay/Hart Trophies - people said it was because other players had poor years not because they had great years). When they were at their peak around the 2010 season - I always thought we were witnessing a truly golden era not seen before since the Bure era.

They have gas in the tank still imo, and are already two of the greatest Canucks of all time for what they do both on and off the ice.

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True but still when a guy finishes 8th overall in scoring he should be considered among the top 50, even when you factor in Dman and goalies. I mean Daniel outscored Tarasenko last year but Tarasenko went from unranked to 14th overall and Daniel doesn't even make the list, that makes no sense!!

Yeh and they will be top 15 scoring this year also. Tsn rankings are just a popularity vote. If Crosby was in Vancouver he wouldnèt top 40

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AND CROSBY AT #1??? GIVE ME A BREAK

Uh, are you kidding? Sorry to break it to you but Crosby is the best player in the world and has been for the last decade. The guy has multiple Harts, multiple Art Ross trophies, multiple Lindsays, holds more NHL records than any active player and will finish his career a top 10-15 player of all time. If not for injuries, he'd probably be one of the five most decorated forwards in NHL history, behind only Gretz, Mario and Howe. And he will likely lap the field in next year's scoring race, like he did in 2014.

On a list with all sorts of ridiculous rankings, you take issue with the most obvious one of all???

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Uh, are you kidding? Sorry to break it to you but Crosby is the best player in the world and has been for the last decade. The guy has multiple Harts, multiple Art Ross trophies, multiple Lindsays, holds more NHL records than any active player and will finish his career a top 10-15 player of all time. If not for injuries, he'd probably be one of the five most decorated forwards in NHL history, behind only Gretz, Mario and Howe. And he will likely lap the field in next year's scoring race, like he did in 2014.

On a list with all sorts of ridiculous rankings, you take issue with the most obvious one of all???

Price was better than Crosby last year by a mile. Crosby should definitely be no lower than 2, but Price should've gone #1. Sid didn't even win the scoring race. Also The fact that McDavid is on this list is appalling.

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Uh, are you kidding? Sorry to break it to you but Crosby is the best player in the world and has been for the last decade. The guy has multiple Harts, multiple Art Ross trophies, multiple Lindsays, holds more NHL records than any active player and will finish his career a top 10-15 player of all time. If not for injuries, he'd probably be one of the five most decorated forwards in NHL history, behind only Gretz, Mario and Howe. And he will likely lap the field in next year's scoring race, like he did in 2014.

On a list with all sorts of ridiculous rankings, you take issue with the most obvious one of all???

crosby wont lap the field he only got 84 points last yr a guy named benn got 87 stop sniffing the glue he isnt that good he has one cup compared to toews has 3

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LOL Nash, Burns, Pietrangelo, Kessel, Pacioretty, Voracek... They are good players but can we say they are better than the Sedins?

The top 10, maybe top 20 is OK but beyond top 20... crap of a list. Just consensus of TSN $hit heads.

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