Rantanen led the position with 30 goals, and Kane was the leader with 51 assists.
The race for most points among right wings should be even tighter this year with Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning and David Pastrnak of the Boston Bruins healthy heading into training camp.
Kucherov, one of the top forwards in the NHL, missed the entire 2020-21 regular season because of hip surgery, and Pastrnak, who led the position in 2019-20 with 95 points (48 goals, 47 assists), missed eight games after his own hip surgery and struggled to get back on track, scoring 48 points (20 goals, 28 assists).
Who will emerge as the best right wing, as listed on their player page, in the 2021-22 season? We asked seven NHL.com writers for their thoughts.
Here are their answers (listed alphabetically):
Patrick Kane, Chicago Blackhawks
Though I've gotten a front-row seat to Pastrnak's brilliance over his career and Rantanen and Kucherov are truly great talents, I'd be remiss not to toss in a vote for Kane, somehow an elder statesman at 32. Kane was tied with Rantanen for second in points among right wings in the NHL and has a track record a mile long. Kane has the most points of any right wing since the start of his career, 14 seasons ago, scoring 1,088 points (404 goals, 684 assists), well above the 875 scored by Phil Kessel. He's also used to knowing how to prepare for a season after a short offseason after all those Cup runs with the Blackhawks. -- Amalie Benjamin, staff writer