The NHL hottest hockey players season is now less than a quarter done. Now would be a great moment to take a look at the 25 most popular players.

This list will include some familiar names, as well as some new players and some surprises. Let’s face it, how many of these NHL hottest hockey players would you choose to have on your list of 25 most popular hockey players?

Marc-Andre Fleury

• Fleury seems to have made it through the early season without any difficulties.
• Fleury has won six consecutive starts and allowed only nine goals in his six previous starts.
• Fleury is a good goal-setter. However, Fleury Crescent Moon Drawing has only gold wall sconce faced 193 shots in those games. This translates to a.953 save rate.

Hottest Hockey Players Sidney Crosby

• It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Crosby would be competing with other NHL elite players for the scoring lead. But maybe this season, it should be documented on how he did it.
• Crosby has been an incredible player over the past three weeks and will continue to be so.
• Crosby’s last four games have seen him score two power-play goals and a shorthanded goal. He also has 16 shots on goal and plus-2. He has seven points for four goals and three assists.

Carey Price

• Carey Price is still one of the most popular players in the NHL.
• Price is having a career-best year.
• Price is only one win behind Marc-Andre Fleury of Pittsburgh in his nine last starts. Price also has a 1.23 GAA.
• Price is the league’s leader with a.967 save rate.

Steven Stamkos

• With 21 goals, Stamkos leads all NHL hottest hockey players. But what’s more is that he did it with only 91 shots.
• Ten of these goals were scored by the power-hottest hockey players
• Stamkos’s last four games have seen him score two goals and three assists, on 16 shots.

Red Hottest Hockey Players is a Big Hit in Big Apple

Madison Square Garden, the Big Apple’s main venue, is fully booked on Saturday, November 28. This might not seem like a big deal if the Knicks and Rangers were playing. But Red Hot Hockey — Boston University against Cornell is the weekend’s hot ticket.

Terrier fans without tickets have some consolation. The game will be streamed live on the Athletics Department’s Web site.

With a 7-2 win by the Terriers in January 1925, the seeds of the BU/Cornell rivalry were sown. The two teams met in the NCAA title game in 1972, more than 40 years later. Cornell won 1967 and BU won 1972. The teams only met a handful of times after BU joined Hockey East in 1984. This was before the 2007 Red Hot Hockey match at Garden.