Active players who are locks for the Hall of Fame

[Vancouver Canucks]

If his hips don’t lie, Brad’s getting in, no matter the haters.

Yeah, he'll get in. Theoren Fleury 2.0.

 

[Ned Bouhalassa]

Yeah, he'll get in. Theoren Fleury 2.0.

Except Marchand’s already played 350+ more games. Not comparable, IMHO.

 

[Vancouver Canucks]

Except Marchand’s already played 350+ more games. Not comparable, IMHO.

I mean, just the way both players annoy the s**t out of their opponents.

 

[Giotrapani91]

Based of what?

The fact he’s a three time season ending all star 2 time first team all star & one second team, & he has a Norris trophy, & if Carolina goes to the finals and win the cup and he wins the conn smythe trophy he’ll be inducted but I’ll say second or third ballot HOFer

 

[Giotrapani91]

Locks among active or recently activish players (played within last 1.5 years):

Bergeron
Chara
Thornton
Karlsson
Marleau (yeah, he will make it)
Kopitar
Doughty
Kane
Keith
Crosby
Malkin
Fleury
Ovechkin
Stamkos
Hedman
Josi
Weber
McDavid

Weird cases, probably closer to locks, Quick is a bit weaker:

Toews
Price
Quick

Almost locks, need just a couple of good or one more great season (for Perry and Giordano relative to their current limited roles):

Burns
Perry
Kucherov
Vasilevskiy
Giordano

Big ol’ names, nice stats, no personal hardware. Somewhat strong outside chance:

Tavares
Giroux
Backstrom
Letang
Pietrangelo

Big ol’ names, nice stats, no personal hardware. Somewhat weak outside chance:

Getzlaf
Suter
Wheeler
Staal

Trending there, but need more than a couple of good seasons. Top-5 is projecting to be soon to be almost locks:

Draisaitl
MacKinnon
Matthews
Makar
Barkov
Marchand
Gaudreau

I think Getzlaf will get there just not first ballot in 2025 I have marleau going in second ballot with his buddy Jumbo Joe, & than chara, I don’t have Keith on the first ballot cuz he has less points than chara, I could see them inducting mogilny or brindamour in Duncan Keith’s place, 2026 Bergeron Is a lock I have Duncan Keith in that class, than my last two picks for that class are CuJo & Ryan miller. 2024 I have either mogilny & brindamour going in with zetterberg & datsyuk, if not brindamour & mogilny, than JR, & tkachuk.

 

[Ghetty Green]

I have Keith as a lock. Arguably the most important player on a near-Dynasty.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Bedard. He was a lock the second he went 1st overall.