Definitely not Mitch Marner. Hes worth every penny of that 4 year 44 mill contract

Burn on Andrew Agozzino... Also who is this guy?

Hes underrated on this site... until he signs and people get over the contract, than he will go back to overrated

I just had to fill out 10 players to post

Overrated is probably - Laine
Underated is probably - Eichel/Stone

Wow, have to pick just one i guess it’s Dougie Hamilton.

Risto rantanen Ceci (by the people that think he'll be able to play top line minutes) Subban, everyone on the leafs to an extent, probably quite a few others that I'm not thinking of rn

I feel like Risto and ceci actually get ****ttt on, on this site

Matt Murray is overrated

Yeah but there's also the people that overvalue them to an insane amount, but yeah there are people that underrate them as well

"Overrated" is hard to determine because it involves a lot of aspects, but I'll try.

For me, its Auston Matthews. And that is not to say I don't like him as a player, I think he is an absolute super star. But the level he is held to at this point makes the least sense to me.

The combination of the absurd amount of media attention on Toronto alongside the fact that, really, he was probably the 3rd most important leafs forward last year after Tavares and Marner (but I think a full healthy season allows him to prove that he is definitively more important than Marner) does it for me.

For example, the fact that the Hockey News just listed him as the 2nd highest individual of "power and influence" in Hockey is telling. I get that he plays in the biggest market, and so that ranking reflects that bloated attention and the money that he brings in for the sport there, but still. He hasn't won any major awards other than the Calder, and IMO Tavares is, right now, this year, a more important overall player even looking at just the Leafs, regardless of all the other influential and talented players on other teams.

Link to the Hockey News ranking: https://thehockeynews.com/news/article/the-hockey-news-people-of-power-and-influence-no-2-auston-matthews

All this to say, Matthews is, in my books, probably a top 10 player in the league, but is definitely around the "10th" best player mark. Right now, in a game, I would definitely take McDavid, Crosby, Kucherov, Kane, Ovechkin, MacKinnon, Tavares, Hedman (healthy) and perhaps even Barkov ahead of him. I simply do not understand why the league and so many of its fans have, at 20 years old, decided he is so monumentally important as a figure in the league already.

I know Leafs fans might not like this, but from my perspective, when you have a debate as to whether Matthews is even the most important player on your team, and the Hockey News is ranking him as the second most important individual in the game as a whole, there is a decent amount of overrating going on. However, its not a bad "problem" to have is it. Lucky buggers.

This was a really good post, and really well explained... I agree, Matthews is a superstar but people are talking about him on another level... and he hasnt done that much in the league yet, not saying he wont.. but as of today he has yet too

overrated based on fan perception - bergeron. fantastic player that should be captain, but the way i hear a lot of people talk about him is like he's the greatest player to ever step foot on the ice. i also think people overvalue two-way centers in general though.

I feel like figuring out whose actually good defensively is so subjective and tough to put in perspective people just use the same names everytime(as i would be guilty of this sometimes)

Lots of players are overrated by their team's fans. By overall fans Dustin Byfuglien is up there for me.

I'd have a top ten list that includes:
P.K. Subban
Wayne Simmonds
Jacob Trouba
Kevin Hayes
Esa Lindell
Zach Sanford
Connor Hellebyuck
Adam Larsson
Micheal Ferland
Max Pacioretty

Some people think of overpaid and overrated as the same thing, but they're not really.