Best player in franchise history-Pittsburgh Penguins

[toothlessgoon]

Previous poll winners

Toronto Maple Leafs: Auston Matthews (30.5%)
Montreal Canadiens: Jean Beliveau (43.9)
New York Rangers: Brian Leetch (48.7%)
Chicago Blackhawks: Bobby Hull (57.2%)
Detroit Red Wings: Gordie Howe (81.3%)
Boston Bruins: Bobby Orr (91.1%)
St. Louis Blues: Brett Hull (82.2%)
Philadelphia Flyers: Bobby Clarke (65.7%)

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[Hockeyholic]

Lol...

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

Voters should be visible. Would love to see who didn't vote for Howe, Orr and Lemieux. Guaranteed even Gretzky won't get 100% for the Oilers.

 

[ricky0034]

only one guy on this list has been the GM of the Seattle Kraken

I rest my case

 

[Nasti]

Haha, love the Tom Barrasso pick.

 

[Felidae]

Pittsburgh is the only non original six franchise to have 2 arguably top 5-10 players of all time, and neither being their best in franchise history.

Penguins have been spoiled rotten.

 

[MadLuke]

Could just be a troll, but maybe Barrasso mother is an HFboards user.

 

[The Tourist]

Zubov

 

[K Fleur]

No option for Brooks Orpik.

 

[PettersonHughes]

No option for Brooks Orpik.

Yeah, and Max Talbot, he of the two-goal performance that won the Pens the Cup that time?

 

[tabness]

Rick Kehoe should be an option

 

[slapKing]

Anyone who didn't vote for Mario doesn't know anything about hockey full stop

 

[bobholly39]

Voters should be visible. Would love to see who didn't vote for Howe, Orr and Lemieux. Guaranteed even Gretzky won't get 100% for the Oilers.

McDavid would score 500 points in the 80s and Gretzky would be a 4th liner today, maybe

 

[Johnny Tomala]

So 5 super Crosby fans and 3 super Jagr fans voted for them. The vote for Letang is clearly missclick by someone who wanted to vote for Lemieux.

 

[nowhereman]

As big a fan as I am of Crosby, there's really only one logical answer here. Easily Lemieux.

 

[DowJones]

Voters should be visible. Would love to see who didn't vote for Howe, Orr and Lemieux. Guaranteed even Gretzky won't get 100% for the Oilers.

Unfortunately your prediction will be true:

is-connor-mcdavid-the-best-player-ever

 

[pcruz]

Voters should be visible. Would love to see who didn't vote for Howe, Orr and Lemieux. Guaranteed even Gretzky won't get 100% for the Oilers.

I agree completely.

Good f***ing Lord.

There are good players, then there are great players.
There are hall of fame players.
There are the special list of hall of fame players that everyone reminisces about whether they watched them or not.
And then there is Mario, Wayne, Gordie and Bobby.

What those 4 mean to the sport is unprecedented and on any given day they can be considered the greatest player of all time - depending on what you personally believe makes one player greater than another. There isn't a wrong answer as to which was the greatest, but there is a "more correct" answer.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Lemieux
Crosby
Jagr

In that order

 

[Eegs]

I mean...

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Rick Kehoe should be an option

Jean Pronovost, Rick Kehoe and Pierre Larouche should be the options for Best Penguins Pre 1984. Otherwise including this poll, only one option is needed.

 

[93gilmour93]

Anyone who doesn’t think it’s Lemieux needs to put the booze away….

 

[nowhereman]

Voters should be visible. Would love to see who didn't vote for Howe, Orr and Lemieux. Guaranteed even Gretzky won't get 100% for the Oilers.

Some of the voting percentages from the other polls are just ludicrous. Howe with only 81% of the votes for Detroit, even though he's a top 3 player of all time, won them 4 Cups and played 25 seasons for them? 57% for Bobby Hull, a top 10 player of all time? Clarke with only 65%, when no other Flyer is even remotely close to his legacy?

 

[kerrabria]

1) Mario
2) Crosby
3) Jagr
4) Malkin

this is not debatable.

 

[Regal]

Some of the voting percentages from the other polls are just ludicrous. Howe with only 81% of the votes for Detroit, even though he's a top 3 player of all time, won them 4 Cups and played 25 seasons for them? 57% for Bobby Hull, a top 10 player of all time? Clarke with only 65%, when no other Flyer is even remotely close to his legacy?

I think the wording of these is hurting to some degree along with obvious recency bias. For the Flyers for example, I think you can make a case that Lindros was a better player than Clarke in terms of ability, which could satisfy the poll question “best player in franchise history”, but if it’s for best Flyer in terms of play, achievements, longevity, legacy, etc, it’s obviously not close.

1) Mario
2) Crosby
3) Jagr
4) Malkin

this is not debatable.

I’d say 3 and 4 are debatable. Jagr has the better regular season prime, individual awards and durability on his side, but Malkin has longevity, playoffs and team success on his side and they’re not far apart in peak play.

 

[kerrabria]

I’d say 3 and 4 are debatable. Jagr has the better regular season prime, individual awards and durability on his side, but Malkin has longevity, playoffs and team success on his side and they’re not far apart in peak play.

I LOVE Malkin, but it's not debatable. Even regarding your points...

	Malkin	Jagr
Total seasons	16	11
Reg Season GP	981	806
Playoff GP	172	140
Playoff Points	176	147
Cups	3	2
Smythe	1	0
Playoff series wins	20	16
President's Trophies	0	1
Division Titles	4	5

Malkin has not had more success than Jagr given their time frames. Plus, Jagr wore the C for three years. Something Malkin will never do.