Retirements shoot Bo Johansson up the active TPA leaderboards.

[Shindigs 1,771]

With the S78 draft class all being sent the the farm upstate this week. It's sure made some moves happen on the Active top TPE (and more importantly TPA) leaderboards. Currently they are a bit hard to judge, since some players have gotten their dono weeks in already, and others haven't. But let's have a look at the TPA leaderboards regardless.

 

1. [80] G - Xavier Booberry @CowboyinAmerica 1240 (1513)

2. [80] C - Saku Kotkakoivu @DollarAndADream  1240 (1304)

3. [79] C - Jonathan Ori @ROOKIE745 1227 (1514)

4. [81] C - Daniel Janser @Daniel Janser 1174 (1175)

5. [82] D - Bo Johansson @Shindigs 1154 (1154)

 

As you can see the list is somewhat dominated by Centers, which makes sense. Centers (especially Power centers, which all 3 are to some degree) are the most TPE hungry players in the Hybrid era by a decent margin, in fact the only other role that comes close is Checking "hybrid pass first" Dman. Aka what Bo is, and Aurelien Moreau was. Since it's the only other role that needs as many attributes. But the dmen only "need" about 80 PA, the Centers need closer to 90 FO (and slightly more SC). So they are still having the upper hand when it comes to being TPE hungry, for sure.

 

But what this also means is that Bo is now actually the highest TPA dman in the entire league, woo! Time to hopefully live up to that with a 100 point season. Though knowing Bo he will start hot, then forget what hockey is for the last half of the season, like he always does. 

[ROOKIE745 599]

I like how Ori is the only S79 player on there lol

[Shindigs 1,771]

The others are bunched up just outside the top 5, pretty much.