{"id":136489,"date":"2025-09-11T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136489\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T16:00:09","slug":"six-jets-crack-the-athletics-top-150-players-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/136489\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Jets Crack The Athletic’s Top-150 Players List"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Athletic revealed its list of the Top-150 players<\/a> currently serving in the NHL.<\/p>\n

No, this wasn’t your traditional, run-of-the-mill ranking either. It wasn’t a numbered 1-150 ranking, but rather a list of groupings – 1A to 5C – that contained the 150 players currently at the top of the league rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Assembled by Dom Luszczyszyn, Sean Gentile and Shayna Goldman, the all-encompassing overview provided the following pre-amble to set the stage for the annual breakdown:<\/p>\n

“For the second straight season, we\u2019ve separated 150 players into five groups: MVP cornerstones, franchise pillars, All-Star candidates, the true stars and elite support. Last year, we added a fifth tier and 25 slots and incorporated goaltenders for the first time, and we carried that template into 2025.<\/p>\n

“For those new here, this isn\u2019t your typical ranking \u2014 because it isn\u2019t really a ranking. It\u2019s a hierarchy, one in which grouping players together is the primary feature and is meant to illustrate the diversity of viewpoints within the sport. There are levels to the league and sub-levels within each basket of players. While one player may be more well-liked by some over another, another group may see it differently.”<\/p>\n

Included on The Athletic’s list were six members of the Winnipeg Jets – most of which the average hockey fan could likely have guessed. Their rankings are as follows:<\/p>\n

2A – Connor Hellebuyck (No. 15 overall)\u00a0<\/p>\n

2C – Josh Morrissey (No. 27 overall)\u00a0<\/p>\n

3B – Kyle Connor (No. 48 overall)\u00a0<\/p>\n

4A – Mark Scheifele (No. 70 overall)\u00a0<\/p>\n

5B – Gabe Vilardi (No. 133 overall)\u00a0<\/p>\n

5C – Dylan Samberg (No. 147 overall)<\/p>\n

Former Jets Nikolaj Ehlers (4A), Pierre-Luc Dubois (5A) and Sean Monahan (5A) were also included on the list, while Manitobans Seth Jarvis (3A), Mark Stone (4A) and Travis Sanheim (5A) also cracked the Top-150.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, The Athletic revealed its list of the Top-150 players currently serving in the NHL. No, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-136489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}