Hockey Pool Primer: Top 25 Scorers Since All Star Break

Often a good indication of who will be hot this year will be players who were hot down the stretch the previous season. Here's a look at the top 25 scorers after the All Star Game last season.

Player        GP   G   A   Pts
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Ovechkin      33   25  26   51
Crosby        30   16  27   43
Malkin        34   16  27   43
Kovalchuk     31   23  19   42
Datsyuk       35   13  28   41
E. Staal      34   20  20   40
M. Green      33   19  21   40
Havlat        36   14  26   40
Backstrom     34   10  30   40
Parise        35   17  22   39
Ribeiro       37   11  28   39
Cammalleri    36   17  21   38
Semin         32   16  22   38
H. Sedin      34   14  24   38
Ray Whitney   34    9  29   38
Connolly      35   13  24   37
R. Nash       35   21  15   36
Iginla        36   16  20   36
Spezza        38   14  22   36
Langenbrunner 35   21  14   35
Boyes         36   13  22   35
Getzlaf       33    8  27   35
Kesler        34   17  17   34
M. Richards   33   14  20   34
St. Louis     35   13  21   34

By the way, "lesser" players who strong down the stretch included

Ott           35   14  19   33
Weiss         36    7  26   33
Ponikarovsky  35    9  22   31
Eriksson      37   14  17   31
Burrows       34   18  11   29 
Backes        36   15  14   29
Booth         33   12  17   29