The 2010s in the NHL

The decade's most valuable players

1. 1
   Alex Ovechkin

   L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (22.4)

   190.2
2. 2
   Patrick Kane

   R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2016 (24.1)

   188
3. 3
   Sidney Crosby

   C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (23.3)

   181.2
4. 4
   John Tavares

   C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2019 (22.1)

   172.7
5. 5
   Claude Giroux

   R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (22.9)

   171.8
6. 6
   Steven Stamkos

   C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2019 (22.9)

   169.7
7. 7
   Phil Kessel

   R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (21.6)

   169.5
8. 8
   Anze Kopitar

   C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (22.2)

   167.8
9. 9
   Nicklas Backstrom

   C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (23.3)

   167.1
10. 10
    Joe Pavelski

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2016 (20.8)

    163.9
11. 11
    Jamie Benn

    L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2016 (22.1)

    162.6
12. 12
    Jonathan Toews

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2019 (19.9)

    162.4
13. 13
    Blake Wheeler

    R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (20.7)

    160.7
14. 14
    Evgeni Malkin

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (22.4)

    159.5
15. 15
    Patrice Bergeron

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2019 (19.1)

    155.4
16. 16
    Eric Staal

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (19.3)

    153.2
17. 17
    Ryan Getzlaf

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2014 (21.4)

    152.4
18. 18
    Tyler Seguin

    C · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2014 (21.4)

    152.3
19. 19
    Joe Thornton

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2016 (19.5)

    147.4
20. 20
    Corey Perry

    R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (22.2)

    146.9
21. 21
    Brad Marchand

    L · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2019 (22.2)

    146.2
22. 22
    Jakub Voracek

    R · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2018 (19.5)

    146.1
23. 23
    Patrick Marleau

    C · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2010 (20.8)

    144.4
24. 24
    Daniel Sedin

    L · 9 seasons in the decade · best 2011 (24.1)

    141.9
25. 25
    Brent Burns

    D · 10 seasons in the decade · best 2017 (20)

    135.4

Decade VAL is the sum of a player's VAL across the decade's seasons. How VAL works.

The decade's greatest single seasons

What this page stands on

VAL player-seasons in the corpus for each year of the decade.