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The Top 100 NHL Players for 2025-26

Leon Draisaitl (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)       It's been a significant amount of time since I last deigned to engage in the primitive art of player rankings. In 2023, I wrote an article with the purpose of outlining the top 50 players in the National Hockey League. Now that the busy camp summer has wrapped up and the school semester is yet to kick into high gear, I figured it would be a worthy exercise to revisit my old article and provide some much-needed updates to the list.      While I acknowledge the vast number of fun narratives that could be derived from a Sincere Sports player ranking, I don't mince my words when I call this a "primitive art." In actuality, separating the most talented hockey players on the planet by mere numbers is frankly incapable of doing justice to their extreme ability. Truthfully, a tier-based system would be more accurate for encapsulating the various nuances of splitting hairs between a dynamic right winger and a steady...