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The Full 60 with Craig Custance

Top 100 NHL players: The Athletic’s Player Tiers vs ESPN's Top 100 NHL players

The Full 60 with Craig Custance

The Athletic

News, Hockey, Sports News, Sports

4.8595 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

On a special edition of the Full 60, Craig welcomes The Athletic's analytics expert Dom Luszczyszyn and ESPN's Emily Kaplan and Greg Wyshynski for a debate on the NHL's top 100 players. CC and his panel compare lists, discuss how they came to their conclusions, who was on top, who was on the bottom, and who was left off.

Check out Craig and Dom's masterpiece at 

https://theathletic.com/2311395/2021/01/11/nhl-player-tiers-mcdavid-mackinnon-matthews/


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custins and presented by The Athletic.

0:11.3

Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game.

0:19.6

Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the Full 60.

0:23.5

This one was a blast to do because it aligned two warring factions at ESPN and the Athletic

0:32.2

to come together into one podcast and defend ourselves, and it was a lot of fun.

0:38.3

Greg Wyshinsky and Emily Kaplan, both of ESPN, joined me and Dom Lushchishin of the Athletic

0:46.9

to talk over our top 100 players.

0:50.0

We both went into the season and did, you know, this is not a super original idea.

0:55.2

I would grant, although I would contend both the way both of us, the ESPN and the Athletic,

1:01.2

approached it was different in original, but we both did top 100 players.

1:06.4

In our lists look, I would say, dramatically different.

1:09.1

Now, for one reason, our goalies were sussed out

1:12.5

and included in the goalie tiers package that I ran. So it's going to look different because of that.

1:17.7

But even when you account for that, our lists were pretty dramatically different. And so,

1:23.1

we thought it would be fun to get Greg and Emily on with Dom and I, explain our process,

1:28.6

debate our differences, and we certainly had that, and see if we can find any common ground.

1:35.7

I don't know if we got there, but it was fun just to talk hockey with those three and

1:41.9

debate and have a good time.

1:44.1

And so let's jump right in to this week's episode of the full success. with those three and in debate and have a good time.

1:48.5

And so let's jump right in to this week's episode of the full 60,

1:52.3

the player tiers debate episode.

2:00.9

I'm thrilled to have arch rivals from ESPN, Emily Kaplan, and Greg Wyshinsky.

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