If we blew up the Hall of Fame

[tarheelhockey]

Where would you want to rebuild it? But seriously though, here's a little mind exercise for those of you bored at work.

Let's say the HoF was completely scrapped and replaced with 2 different Halls: The Hall of Truly Great and the Hall of Very Good.

Who would you admit into the Hall of Truly Great? Here's a first shot without doing a ton of research, so no disrespect intended to anyone obvious I've missed.

Hall of Truly Great
Sid Abel
Andy Bathgate
Jean Beliveau
Mike Bossy
Butch Bouchard
Ray Bourque
Johnny Bower
Frank Brimsek
Turk Broda
Johnny Bucyk
King Clancy
Dit Clapper
Bobby Clarke
Sprague Cleghorn
Paul Coffey
Yvan Cournoyer
Alex Delvecchio
Marcel Dionne
Ken Dryden
Phil Esposito
Slava Fetisov
Ron Francis
Bob Gainey
Bernie Geoffrion
Wayne Gretzky
Glenn Hall
Doug Harvey
Tim Horton
Gordie Howe
Bobby Hull
Brett Hull
Red Kelly
Valeri Kharmalov
Jari Kurri
Guy Lafleur
Newsy Lalonde
Igor Larionov
Mario Lemieux
Ted Lindsay
Frank Mahovlich
Mark Messier
Stan Mikita
Howie Morenz
Bobby Orr
Brad Park
Lester Patrick
Jaques Plante
Denis Potvin
Henri Richard
Maurice Richard
Larry Robinson
Patrick Roy
Borje Salming
Denis Savard
Terry Sawchuk
Milt Schmidt
Eddie Shore
Babe Siebert
Cyclone Taylor
Tiny Thompson
Vladislav Tretiak
Bryan Trottier
Gump Worsley
Roy Worters
Steve Yzerman

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[unknown33]

You missed Denis Potvin, Larry Robinson and Valeri Kharlamov.

 

[tarheelhockey]

You missed Denis Potvin, Larry Robinson and Valeri Kharlamov.

I sure did, just went back and added them.

 

[DaveG]

Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens definitely belong here.

edit: and Dave Keon

 

[brianscot]

How about Norm Ullman.

Over 1200 points with most of them being pre- expansion.

 

[dsreyn]

I would add a few more: Joe Malone, Bill Durnan, George Hainsworth.

Doug

 

[Sadekuuro]

Lidström.

 

[Buck Aki Berg]

Where would you want to rebuild it?

Phoenix. Just to piss everyone off.

 

[Unaffiliated]

Lidström.

Not even retired yet, let alone for 3 years.


edit: assuming entry waiting time just like HHOF. I assume that's why Sakic is not in there.

 

[Sadekuuro]

Ugh, sorry, my brain doesn't function properly in the morning. Point taken

 

[FrozenJagrt]

A couple Leafs/guys who made careers elsewhere but had cups of coffee in Toronto...

Charlie Conacher
Dave Keon
Ted Kennedy
Syl Apps
Dickie Moore
Brian Leetch
George Hainsworth


Others:
Joe Malone
Bill Durnan
Georges Vezina

Obviously subjective, but there are some guys there that you absolutely cannot leave off the list.

 

[Ilya Kovalchoke*]

Lidström.

Crosby

 

[Ilya Kovalchoke*]

Crosby

Hall

 

[Ilya Kovalchoke*]

Hall

Larsson

 

[kmad]

Earl Seibert
Peter Stastny
Sergei Makarov
Aurele Joliat
Bill Cowley

 

[Sadekuuro]

Rod Langway
Serge Savard?

 

[revolverjgw]

Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens definitely belong here.

And Brian Leetch, you can't keep a guy with 2 Norris trophies and one of the more impressive Conn Smythe wins out. Those three were defining d-men of their generation.

 

[kmad]

Pierre Pilote
Bill Durnan

 

[DJ Man]

Cheevers
Duff
Pulford

. . . Hey, what do you know, they're all back in the new Hall!


Not serious!

 

[pappyline]

Add the Bentley brothers-Max & Doug

 

[Mathradio]

Rick Vaive in the Hall of Very Good.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Missing the best of the early Ottawa Senators:

Frank Nighbor, Cy Denneny, Georges "Buck" Boucher, Clint Benedict

Charlie Conacher was mentioned already, but Busher Jackson should be added, as well.

Others of the top of my head who I don't think have been mentioned yet:

Marcel Pronovost, Black Jack Stewart, Bill Quackenbush, Charlie Gardiner, Nels Stewart

If Babe Siebert is in, then Ebbie Goodfellow has to be.

Serge Savard, Guy Lapointe, Bernie Parent, Dale Hawerchuk

 

[kmad]

Marcel Pronovost

I have never been sold on him. He always seemed to me like a passenger on great teams.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

I have never been sold on him. He always seemed to me like a passenger on great teams.

2 first Team All Stars, 2 second Team All Stars
11 All Star games, at least 6 of them earned.

http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/p/pronoma01.html

I guess it depends on what the standard is, but I don't see him as any weaker than Cournoyer or Worsley, both of whom are in the original post.

Edit: I guess Butch Bouchard (in the original post) is a better comparable, as he's a defenseman.

 

[seventieslord]

I don't care if this is a higher standards hall, Makarov and Mark Howe still belong.

Also add Syd Howe, who has not been mentioned yet.