One of my favourite stats for evaluating a player's offensive ability is the stat that ESPN.com refers to as Production. It basically determines how much ice time a player averages to get a point.

It might not be perfect since players who play on the penalty kill are penalized for being on the ice a lot during non-offensive situations.

Below are the top 30 players accord to production as of last night who have played at least 20 games.

Rank	Player	Games	Icetime	Goals	Assists	Points	PROD
1	Peter Forsberg, COL	22	19:06	10	26	36	11:40
2	Alex Tanguay, COL	44	18:17	14	39	53	15:11
3	Keith Tkachuk, STL	39	19:27	19	26	45	16:51
4	Marian Hossa, OTT	46	18:54	23	28	51	17:03
5	Markus Naslund, VAN	47	19:25	25	28	53	17:13
6	Marc Savard, ATL	32	22:29	15	26	41	17:33
7	Robert Lang, WAS	47	21:21	23	33	56	17:55
8	Joe Sakic, COL	45	19:44	19	30	49	18:07
9	Martin Havlat, OTT	37	16:51	12	22	34	18:20
10	Zigmund Palffy, LA	35	21:29	16	25	41	18:20
11	Pavel Datsyuk, DET	48	18:29	21	26	47	18:53
12	Brett Hull, DET	47	17:17	16	27	43	18:53
13	Ladislav Nagy, PHO	42	18:34	20	21	41	19:01
14	Eric Lindros, NYR	36	16:03	10	20	30	19:16
15	Mike Ribeiro, MON	47	16:33	11	29	40	19:27
16	D. Alfredsson, OTT	45	19:29	19	26	45	19:29
17	Milan Hejduk, COL	46	18:53	23	21	44	19:44
18	Jeff Cowan, ATL	37	10:51	6	14	20	20:05
19	Michael Ryder, MON	47	15:27	14	22	36	20:10
20	Doug Weight, STL	39	21:13	10	31	41	20:11
21	Jason Spezza, OTT	47	14:48	14	20	34	20:27
22	Ilya Kovalchuk, ATL	48	23:52	25	30	55	20:50
23	Shane Doan, PHO	45	20:55	17	28	45	20:55
24	Jaromir Jagr, WAS	45	20:57	16	29	45	20:57
25	Pavol Demitra, STL	40	21:01	16	24	40	21:01
26	Mats Sundin, TOR	47	20:14	16	29	45	21:08
27	Martin St. Louis, TB	45	20:14	19	23	42	21:40
28	Pierre Dagenais, MON	25	13:54	10	6	16	21:43
29	Joe Nieuwendyk, TOR	36	16:26	11	16	27	21:55
30	Trent Hunter, NYI	42	15:10	15	14	29	21:58

Some interesting names on the list.

Maybe Eric Lindros isn't washed up after all.

Jeff Cowan? Pierre Dagenais? In the top 30?

Michael Ryder and Trent Hunter look like they could be the real deal when it comes to rookies.