This is thoroughly unscientific, but I couldn't think of a better way to combine the league leaders in deflections, hits, rebounds, takeaways, penalties drawn and wraparounds. So, in the spirit of corrupt Russian figure skating judges, I added together each player's league-wide rank in each category and threw out the highest and lowest figures. Ranking the players by lowest score gives us the following top 25:
| Deflections | Rebounds | Takeaways | Draw Pens | Hits | Wraps | ||
| 1 | Ryan Smyth | X | X | X | X | ||
| 2 | Eric Staal | X | X | X | X | X | |
| 3 | Zach Parise | X | X | X | X | ||
| 4 | Ryan Malone | X | X | X | |||
| 5 | Alexander Ovechkin | X | X | X | X | ||
| 6 | Henrik Zetterberg | X | X | X | X | ||
| 7 | Rick Nash | X | X | X | |||
| 8 | Vaclav Prospal | X | X | X | |||
| 9 | Thomas Vanek | X | X | X | X | ||
| 10 | Sidney Crosby | X | X | X | |||
| 11 | Andrew Brunette | X | X | X | |||
| 12 | Jonathan Cheechoo | X | X | X | |||
| 13 | Shane Doan | X | X | X | |||
| 14 | Martin St. Louis | X | X | X | |||
| 15 | Brian Gionta | X | X | X | |||
| 16 | Olli Jokinen | X | X | ||||
| 17 | Jarome Iginla | X | X | X | X | ||
| 18 | Mike Knuble | X | X | ||||
| 19 | Alexander Frolov | X | X | ||||
| 20 | Corey Perry | X | X | ||||
| 21 | Justin Williams | X | X | ||||
| 22 | Daniel Sedin | X | X | ||||
| 23 | Chris Neil | X | X | X | |||
| 24 | Mike Richards | X | |||||
| 25 | Dustin Brown | X | X |
Players who ranked in the top 30 in the NHL in a given category have an 'X' under that heading. Offensive-zone hits are the least predictive of the six categories, followed by wraparounds. Ryan Smyth is the most complete player in these categories, with several top ten rankings - he fell just outside the top 30 in rebounds. Eric Staal and Zach Parise also have a broad skill-set, and if we just consider the first four ratings - excluding hits and wraparounds - Parise is #1 in the league. We can argue about the exact order of the top 10-20 players on this list, but it's clear that we've figured out basically who the best players in the league are around the other team's goal.