6 Hall of Famers on regular shifts?

[MyDogSparty]

What teams regularly played 6 Hall of Famers on the ice at one time? I’m not talking about Power Plays.

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6 HOFers
1930s Boston Bruins: Dumart-Schmidt-Bauer-Shore-Clapper-Brimsek
1950s Detroit Red Wings: Lindsay - Abel - G.Howe - R.Kelly - M.Pronovost - Sawchuk
1970s Montreal Canadiens: Shutt - Lemaire - Lafleur - L.Robinson - S.Savard - K.Dryden

5 HOFers
1940s Montreal Canadiens: Blake-Lach-M.Richard-Bouchard-?dman?-Durnan
1980s New York Islanders: Gilles - Trottier - Bossy - D.Potvin - Morrow* - B.Smith

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[steve141]

8 HOFers:

1919-1920 Senators: Nighbor, Darragh, Broadbent, Denneny, Cleghorn, Gerard, Boucher, Benedict.

 

[silkyjohnson50]

2002 Detroit's top line, top pairing, and starting goaltender featured 5 Hall of Famers out of the 6:

Yzerman-Fedorov-Shanahan
Lidstrom-Olausson
Hasek

The top PP unit featured 6 HOFers:

Hull-Yzerman-Shanahan
Lidstrom-Fedorov
Hasek

Then there were 4 other HOFers who saw the PP regularly as well in Robitaille, Larionov, Datsyuk, and Chelios.

 

[The Panther]

The top PP unit featured 6 HOFers:

Hull-Yzerman-Shanahan
Lidstrom-Fedorov
Hasek

It seems amazing that this happened in the 2000s. Several good players on one team seems like a distant memory from the long-ago past.

 

[MyDogSparty]

SIX
1930s Boston Bruins: Dumart-Schmidt-Bauer-Shore-Clapper-Brimsek

FIVE?
1940s Montreal Canadiens: Blake-Lach-M.Richard-Bouchard-?-Durnan
Who paired with Bouchard in 1945-46, Harmon, Lamoureux or Reardon? If it's Reardon that would move this line to the 6 HOFer status.

 

[MyDogSparty]

The 1972-73 Montreal Canadiens team is interesting because they enough HOF players at each position to make two lines. I'm just not sure who played on which lines on a regular basis?

Shutt, Lemaire, Lafleur, Robinson, Savard, Dryden
F.Mahovlich, H.Richard, Cournoyer, Lapointe, Laperriere, Dryden (was this a regular line?)

 

[SovietWings]

1988/89 CSKA Moscow is probably the closest you can get out of non-NHL teams (in modern era).

Krutov - Larionov - Makarov
Fetisov - Kasatonov

Mogilny - Fedorov - Bure

+ other notable players: Kamensky, Zubov, Gusarov, Konstantinov, Malakhov, Mironov, Zelepukin
(Mogilny, Zubov, maybe Kamensky having a chance to join the HHOF? And you never now with Krutov/Kasatonov in this regard; but they would never be able to ice 6 HHOF because of the goalie position... theoretically with the goalie pulled )

 

[MyDogSparty]

1988/89 CSKA Moscow is probably the closest you can get out of non-NHL teams (in modern era).

Krutov - Larionov - Makarov
Fetisov - Kasatonov

In his senior years Tretiak was the goalie during the early years of the KLM line on the famed CSKA Moscow team and he’s in the HOF. The defensive pair of Fetisov and Kasatonov was on the team at that time too.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

1929 Bruins had 8 HOF'ers...9 if you count the coach, Art Ross

Shore, Clapper, Thompson, Weiland, Oliver, MacKay, Fredrickson, Denneny

 

[overg]

It seems amazing that this happened in the 2000s. Several good players on one team seems like a distant memory from the long-ago past.

That power play unit was absurd. I remember one instance Bowman threw them out there when the Wings were down a goal. Fedorov won the face-off to Lidstrom who immediately passed to Hull for a one-time goal from his office. The entire play took about 2 seconds, and the only "surprise" of the play was which particular Wing would score. That they would score was pretty much a foregone conclusion.

 

[MyDogSparty]

1929 Bruins had 8 HOF'ers...9 if you count the coach, Art Ross

Shore, Clapper, Thompson, Weiland, Oliver, MacKay, Fredrickson, Denneny

OK, but what six were usually on the ice together like the Production Line with their HOF defense?

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

OK, but what six were usually on the ice together like the Production Line with their HOF defense?

line info isnt exactly readily available from that time...

but using basic logic you have 8 HOF'ers on a roster of 14...not much of a leap to figure you'd fairly regularly see 4-6 on ice at once.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

a foursome that we often forget about

with gretzky out in the fall of 1992, coffey, blake, kurri, robitaille, with sandstrom as the fifth guy and hrudey behind them.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

did we ever see a pp of

kariya forsberg selanne
sakic blake
roy?

 

[MXD]

Pretty sure we saw, at some point in 55-56, something like :

Olmstead - Beliveau - Geoffrion
Bouchard - Harvey
Plante

And

Moore - Richard - Richard
Non-HHOF (one of St-Laurent, Talbot, Turner) - Johnson
Plante.

Thus having a 6 HHOF + 5 HHOF combo with no common player, other than the goalie. D-Men combo might be off, but you get the idea.