Who Are the Elite Players in the NHL?

Elite is thrown around too often in Hockey. But who are the true elite players? This is my $.02, feel free to name your own.

The Elites-

Forwards-

Ryan Getzlaf
Ilya Kovalchuck
Tomas Vanek
Jerome Iginla
Eric Staal
Joe Sakic
Rick Nash
Brenden Morrow
Pavel Datsyuk
Marian Hossa
Henrik Zetterberg
Dustin Brown
Marian Gaborik
Daniel Alfredsson
Dany Heatley
Mike Richards
Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Joe Thornton
Vincent Lecavalier
Alex Ovechkin

Defensemen-

Scott Niedermayer
Zdeno Chara
Sergei Zubov
Nicklas Lidstrom
Brent Burns
Andrei Markov
Shea Weber
Chris Pronger
Sergei Gonchar

Goalies-

Ryan Miller
Miikka Kiprussoff
Cam Ward
Martin Brodeur
Rick DiPietro
Henrik Lundqvist
Evgeni Nabokov
Roberto Luongo

The Borderline Elites-

Correy Perry
Marc Savard
Tim Thomas
Oli Jokinen
Jay Bouwmeester
Dion Phaneuf
Robyn Regehr
Martin Havlat
Patrick Kane
Johnathan Toews
Cam Barker
Ryan Smyth
Paul Stastny
J.M. Liles
Mike Madano
Marty Turco
Brian Rafalski
Chris Osgood
Ales Hemsky
Shawn Horcoff
Sheldon Souray
Lubomir Visnovsky
Dwayne Rolonson
Nathan Horton
Stephen Weiss
Bryan McCabe
Tomas Vokoun
Anze Kopitar
Alex Frolov
Mikko Koivu
Saku Koivu
Andrei Kostitsyn
Alex Tanguay
Jason Arnott
Patrik Elias
Zach Parise
Chris Drury
Scott Gomez
Michal Rozsival
Jason Spezza
Danny Briere
Jeff Carter
Simon Gagne
Kimmo Timonen
Shane Doan
Ed Jovanovski
Ilya Bryzgalov
Jordan Staal
M.A. Fleury
Patrick Marleau
Rob Blake
Dan Boyle
Brad Boyes
Paul Kariya
Andy McDonald
Chris Mason
Martin St.Louis
Niklas Hagman
Tomas Kaberle
Ryan Kesler
Henrik Sedin
Daniel Sedin
Matt Sundin
Mattias Ohlund
Alex Semin
Mike Green