NHL Network named San Jose Sharks centers Joe Thornton and Logan Couture the 25th and 24th-best centers, respectively, in the NHL, as the pair missed on the top 20 unveiled on Sunday.
A season after finishing fifth in Hart Trophy voting, the now-38-year-old Thornton began to show signs of aging last season, as he scored his lowest point total (50) since scoring 41 points as a 19-year-old in 1998-99. He remained a solid possession player, but his raw and relative corsi-for percentages dropped 3.4% from the previous season, according to Hockey Reference, as the team’s corsi-for percentage dropped 0.