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I'll only list five players I've seen play. The most exciting for me were:
1) Denis Savard -- insane moves, the epitome of slick stickhandling and as much creativity and imagination as anyone I've ever seen. Didn't produce as much as some of the all-time greats, but his points were almost ALL fun and exciting.
2) Guy Lafleur -- the hair flying through the breeze, the wicked slap shot from the blue line, the way he could dance around defensemen and those oh so smooth passes. It's rare when Flower would be on the ice and you would NOT be on the edge of your seat.
3) Paul Coffey -- he didn't invent going coast-to-coast when leading a rush, but he perfected it. In fact, he did it with so little effort it was both astonishing and breath-taking at the same time. He was also exciting for all the wrong reasons if you're a coach, because he provided a ton of scoring chances at both ends of the ice.
4) Wayne Gretzky -- what can you say. He wasn't nearly as exciting later on in his career, but while with Edmonton he made moves that just look silly nowadays. There was that "2-minute drill" against the Colorado Rockies, when he danced around everybody, straddled the blueline and held onto the puck for what seemed like an entire shift, then fed a streaking Kurri. Or, there's the wicked slap shot against Calgary, his one-man show against Toronto, his behind-the-back passes, his curl-and-wait move at the blueline. He excited your brain as much as your heart.
5) Al Iafrate -- Don't laugh. When healthy and early on with the Leafs, Iafrate could go coast-to-coast, blow a super slapper by the goalie and even knock the snot out of a forward while crossing the blue line. Something ALWAYS happened when "Wild Thing" was on the ice. He was part of one of the most exciting teams of all time IMHO, the Doug Carpenter-led Leafs, with Peter Ing in goal and lots of kids up front (Clark, Damphousse, Daniel Marois, Gary Leeman). They couldn't play D at all, so they didn't bother. It was fun to watch.
1) Denis Savard -- insane moves, the epitome of slick stickhandling and as much creativity and imagination as anyone I've ever seen. Didn't produce as much as some of the all-time greats, but his points were almost ALL fun and exciting.
2) Guy Lafleur -- the hair flying through the breeze, the wicked slap shot from the blue line, the way he could dance around defensemen and those oh so smooth passes. It's rare when Flower would be on the ice and you would NOT be on the edge of your seat.
3) Paul Coffey -- he didn't invent going coast-to-coast when leading a rush, but he perfected it. In fact, he did it with so little effort it was both astonishing and breath-taking at the same time. He was also exciting for all the wrong reasons if you're a coach, because he provided a ton of scoring chances at both ends of the ice.
4) Wayne Gretzky -- what can you say. He wasn't nearly as exciting later on in his career, but while with Edmonton he made moves that just look silly nowadays. There was that "2-minute drill" against the Colorado Rockies, when he danced around everybody, straddled the blueline and held onto the puck for what seemed like an entire shift, then fed a streaking Kurri. Or, there's the wicked slap shot against Calgary, his one-man show against Toronto, his behind-the-back passes, his curl-and-wait move at the blueline. He excited your brain as much as your heart.
5) Al Iafrate -- Don't laugh. When healthy and early on with the Leafs, Iafrate could go coast-to-coast, blow a super slapper by the goalie and even knock the snot out of a forward while crossing the blue line. Something ALWAYS happened when "Wild Thing" was on the ice. He was part of one of the most exciting teams of all time IMHO, the Doug Carpenter-led Leafs, with Peter Ing in goal and lots of kids up front (Clark, Damphousse, Daniel Marois, Gary Leeman). They couldn't play D at all, so they didn't bother. It was fun to watch.