seventieslord
Student Of The Game
As opposed to the usual "consecutive games streak" definition of an ironman, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the players who may have fallen short of such streaks but had a history of playing full seasons without missing a game.
I think it's rather easy to track this - using hockey-reference you can simply look at the number of times a player was "top-10" in games played. In all seasons the top-10 would either be a very large tie for 1st among all the players who played the full or schedule, and a few other times it would be 1-2 players who were traded midseason and played more than a full schedule, followed by a large tie for 2nd or 3rd among the rest who stayed healthy all season.
Here are a few that I found with 10 or more:
Gordie Howe - 18
Dale Hunter - 12
Doug Jarvis - 12
Alex Delvecchio - 12
Henrik Sedin - 11
Mark Recchi - 11
Murray Murdoch - 11
Garry Unger - 11
Jarome Iginla - 11
Steve Larmer - 11
Tim Horton - 11
Trevor Linden - 10
Patrick Marleau - 10
Harry Howell - 10
it's actually pretty rare to have 10 or more. Who else is there?
I think it's rather easy to track this - using hockey-reference you can simply look at the number of times a player was "top-10" in games played. In all seasons the top-10 would either be a very large tie for 1st among all the players who played the full or schedule, and a few other times it would be 1-2 players who were traded midseason and played more than a full schedule, followed by a large tie for 2nd or 3rd among the rest who stayed healthy all season.
Here are a few that I found with 10 or more:
Gordie Howe - 18
Dale Hunter - 12
Doug Jarvis - 12
Alex Delvecchio - 12
Henrik Sedin - 11
Mark Recchi - 11
Murray Murdoch - 11
Garry Unger - 11
Jarome Iginla - 11
Steve Larmer - 11
Tim Horton - 11
Trevor Linden - 10
Patrick Marleau - 10
Harry Howell - 10
it's actually pretty rare to have 10 or more. Who else is there?