As Kent Wilson pointed out this week on Puck Daddy, the NHL is constantly looking for "winners"; an intangible quality that turns the very good into the great and the potentially great into the unfulfilled potential by career's end. Obviously, the greatest measure of being a "winner" is actually winning, and in the National Hockey League that means winning in the playoffs. It's the single most transformative process for a team or a player ? like a director who won an Oscar, a player is forever known as a guy who "has a ring." It's in the playoffs when we truly understand the mental mettle and the considerable drive of a player who thrives in the clutch. But the regular season also reveals its own clutch players as the months pass and the important goals add up. Coming up, 12 of the most clutch players in the NHL based on our targeted metric of what "clutch" entails in the regular season. Who do you consider to be money in the first 82 games? More...