{"id":238950,"date":"2026-04-17T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/one-must-watch-player-from-each-nhl-team-in-the-stanley-cup-playoffs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:20:20","slug":"one-must-watch-player-from-each-nhl-team-in-the-stanley-cup-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/one-must-watch-player-from-each-nhl-team-in-the-stanley-cup-playoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"One must-watch player from each NHL team in the Stanley Cup playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stanley Cup playoffs<\/a> are officially set. There&#8217;s no shortage of talent this year in the postseason, with each team having at least one can&#8217;t-miss, must-watch player. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how they rank in pure watchability in reverse order:<\/p>\n<p>Zegras&#8217; immense skill shined in a career-best 67-point campaign. He also enjoyed the best health of his NHL career.<\/p>\n<p>A late-season addition by trade, Panarin scored 27 points in 25 games to help power the Kings to a 12-8-6 record after the Olympic break.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old scored 41 goals in just his second full season in the NHL. Just 12 skaters scored 25 goals at five-on-five this season \u2014 no one did it in fewer minutes than Gauthier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnston is \u00a0coming off a career year with 45 goals. He&#8217;s a trigger man for the second-best power play in the NHL, scoring a league-high 27 goals with the man advantage.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nhl\/articles\/one_must_watch_player_from_each_nhl_team_in_the_stanley_cup_playoffs\/s1_13132_43738031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stanley Cup playoffs are officially set. There&#8217;s no shortage of talent this year in the postseason, with each team having at least one can&#8217;t-miss, must-watch player. \u00a0 Here&#8217;s how they rank in pure watchability in reverse order: Zegras&#8217; immense skill shined in a career-best 67-point campaign. He also enjoyed the best health of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-238950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}