NHL Network\u2019s Jamison Coyle, E.J. Hradek, and Mike Rupp unveiled their rankings of the NHL\u2019s top 20 wingers on Sunday, with Colorado Avalanche star Martin Necas earning the No. 15 spot after a career year. <\/p>\n
The panel weighed players\u2019 performances during the 2025-26 regular season and Stanley Cup Playoffs while also factoring in future upside. Necas, who is only 27, is coming off a career-best campaign, recording 100 points in the regular season before adding just one goal and 13 points in 13 playoff games. He\u2019s also set to begin a maximum-term, eight-year contract this season playing alongside star center Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n
Necas was sandwiched between Florida Panthers forward Sam Reinhart at No. 14 and Tampa Bay Lightning winger Jake Guentzel at No. 16. He finished tied for second in NHL scoring among wingers during the 2025-26 regular season. <\/p>\n
Rupp praised Necas\u2019 elite skating ability during the broadcast. \u201cHe has great size, skates like the absolute wind, he can fly out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Topping the list was Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov. The reigning Hart Trophy winner is also a three-time Art Ross Trophy recipient, a two-time Ted Lindsay Award winner, and captured his first Hart Trophy during the 2018-19 season.<\/p>\n
Former Avalanche star Mikko Rantanen also cracked the list, landing at No. 5 after his first full season with the Dallas Stars. He finished one spot behind Vegas Golden Knights winger Mitch Marner. Boston\u2019s David Pastrnak and Minnesota\u2019s Kirill Kaprizov rounded out the top three behind Kucherov.<\/p>\n
NHL Network\u2019s\u00a0Top\u00a020 Wings\u00a0Right Now:<\/p>\n
Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n
David\u00a0Pastrnak,\u00a0Boston Bruins<\/p>\n
Kirill\u00a0Kaprizov,\u00a0Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n
Mitch Marner, Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n
Mikko\u00a0Rantanen, Dallas Stars<\/p>\n
Matt Boldy, Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n
Jason Robertson, Dallas Stars<\/p>\n
Matthew Tkachuk, Florida Panthers<\/p>\n
Cole Caufield, Montreal Canadiens\u00a0<\/p>\n
William Nylander, Toronto Maple\u00a0Leafs<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor, Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n
Artemi Panarin,\u00a0Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n
Brandon Hagel, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n
Sam Reinhart, Florida Panthers<\/p>\n
Martin Necas, Colorado Avalanche\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jake Guentzel, Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n
Clayton Keller, Utah Mammoth\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brady Tkachuk, Florida Panthers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cutter Gauthier, Anaheim Ducks\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lucas Raymond, Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL Network\u2019s Jamison Coyle, E.J. Hradek, and Mike Rupp unveiled their rankings of the NHL\u2019s top 20 wingers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":845088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,758,6850,448,82],"class_list":["post-845087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-martin-necas","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845087","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=845087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/845088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}