I hear you. And I'll probably miss him when he's gone too.
Put it this way, as far as the art of the tip in, it's Kreider and Pavelski and then a big gap between whoever is next, and while there's no surprise those two teams were the best in the NHL, there's a slew of other teams who don't have guys like that and still managed to win a ton of hockey games.
I think the game has evolved to a point where you just have to do more than stand there when you don't have the puck.