from Steve Dryden of TSN,

The NHL premium player stock market has been hit as hard as world financial markets this season.

Each year, the pre-season TSN Top 50 NHL Players list ranks the projected best players in the league, reflecting the rising and falling values of individual players. Some blue-chip stocks annually remain the same - Sidney Crosby has been ranked No. 1 six straight years – and others – for example, Duncan Keith ranked as high as No. 5 and low as No. 49 – endure the vicisitudes of the hockey marketplace.

But this year, even Crosby hasn’t been immune to changing times.

While Patrick Kane has rocketed up the ranking, earning 10 of 10 No. 1 votes in the All-Star Break Top 50 survey of TSN hockey experts, Crosby plummeted to No. 14. Of course Crosby has bounced back from a horrible start and entered the All-Star Break – which he actually gets because he wasn’t invited to the game - on a 7-game point streak.

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