There's that "Canada Heritage Moment" commercial a lot of us grew up watching where the Rocket had to help a friend move, carrying furniture up two flights of stairs all day, then had to play that night and could barely move and wasn't sure he could play, and then scored five goals and three assists against the Wings.

Shocked he wasn’t already tbh

Honestly, deserved. It was really cool learning about the "Richard Riot" and Quiet Revolution in school.

I mean, he helped launch a revolution

Having a much older dad had some benefits. He saw The Rocket play and would tell me stories all the time. He also saw Jackie Robinson when he played his 1 Season of Minor League ball in Montreal.

Jean Beliveau is widely regarded as the classiest, most respected player in league history. Every player referred to him as Mr. Beliveau. Plus he put up ridiculous stats.

If your question is popular amongst his peers, that's the answer.

If it's popular amongst the masses, it's clearly Gretzky.

As someone who didn't pay attention to hockey when they were a kid, the answer is Wayne Gretzky.

Wayne Gretzky. Transcended the sport, to the point that he and Michael Jordon were doing commercials together.

Tim Horton has certainly made a name for himself.

Radek Bonk

Bondra and Kolzig were why I loved Washington before Ovi

Really the only correct player named so far.  Every other player named has gotten their share of accolades.

Ziggy played his entire career in dead puck Era and was ppg.

If counting only between 94/95 to 05/06, I would guess he is top 5 in pts or ppg. 

Edit: looks like 9th in points per game from 95 to 04.  But as high as 4th if games played are considered. (600gp)

He rightfully takes some flak for being a bit annoying, and his career dropped off early due to injuries, but I think people forget how devastating prime PK Subban was - he'd blow you up at one end and then charge the other way and make a great play.

most one of a kind player ever. never skated into a hit was either stopped or gliding and at 6'5, 260 he had some great skating and soft hands

Refraining on commenting on Palffy due to how he left the Penguins in 05-06.

My elderly aunt, Habs fan for life, listened to Habs games on the radio in the 50s and 60s until they got a television, said that he was her favourite Hab of all time.

She was devastated when he got traded, RIP

The iconic pick of him carrying two guys by their jersey.

Won a few Cy Young’s though. That lockout year stat line of 34 goals and 9 assists is something special

Humble? Lmao.

Marty is an all time great, but he's a fucking asshole. He made a giant production of everything he did.

Marty was the man.

And oddly I have the same exact signed mask that I won in a silent auction a few years back!

Marty’s Better!

Lucky.

We were lucky to have him on our team and watch him on our home ice.

La La La La LaFontaine…… -Rick Jeanneret the Goat, RIP

Lemieux is the 🐐

I once got into a spirited debate with a Devils fan that claimed Scott Stevens only elbowed one player his entire career.

Gretzky being #2 in PPG in the 90s is nuts. He must've averaged like 3 PPG in the early half of the decade.

Or Orr

You're missing my point. I expected he had a super front loaded PPG average in the early part of the decade as I assumed the tail end of his career would kill the average. I was wrong as he only dipped to a sub 1 PPG in his very last season. The consistency with 99 was insane.

You guys want a fun factoid? From 1981 to 2001, there were only three Art Ross winners.

Gretzky, Lemieux, and Jagr.

Twenty years of dominance. And I'm confident Lemieux would have won in 2002 if he were healthy.

In a Koho model, no less! My personal holy grail :P

I know that it was a different time, and that pretty much none of us were alive to watch him play, but it feels like #9 is way too low for Maurice Richard. In 1998, The Hockey News ranked him the 5th best player of all time. In 2017, theScore ranked him #7. In 2018, Bleacher Report ranked him #6.

He's probably at worst a consensus top 20 player of all-time, I think the lowest he can be on this list of wingers is like #4.

The Canucks fan in me was immediately going to argue for Bure, but there is a lot of fantastic wingers.

Bobby Hull needs to be more than an HM, probably top 5-7. Dude won 2 harts and led the league in goals 7 times. Shitty person for sure but an absolute stud.

I don’t think Bobby Hull is only a honorable mention

If only Bossy's career had not been shortened by injury. The only player with 9 straight 50 goal seasons. 5 60 goal seasons. NHL's all-time leader in average goals scored per regular season game. Probably the greatest pure goal scorer in NHL history…..If only.

Love it.

Edit: And the names following when I checked the comments? Datsyuk, Mario, Fedorov, and Hasek. LGRW!

peter forsberg

Datsyuk, but I also love screaming GETZLAF for unknown reasons

Jarome Iginla.

Steve Yzerman

Are you suggesting that goalies are not players?

Iggy Iggy Iggy!!! Oi Oi Oi!!!

Hail king Loui, blessed be

That's KING Loui

Should probably put OEL under Vancouver as well, since our cap hit for him is higher than Toronto.