There will be a considerable number of current NHL players that enter the Hockey Hall of Fame when their playing days are done. The criteria for enshrinement are clandestine, confusing and controversial, thanks to a Selection Committee whose motivations and justifications are slightly more opaque than those of the CIA.
Paul Pidutti is trying to change that on his site Adjusted Hockey. The Sudbury, Ontario, resident is an accountant by trade and a Hall of Fame geek by nature. So he started crunching numbers of Hall of Fame-worthiness and invented a unique statistical measurement of a player’s candidacy, which he humbly called the Pidutti Point Share system.
In speaking with Pidutti, and using our own projections, here is the latest tiered ranking of current NHL players and their Hall of Fame prospects.