Who is on your Mount Rushmore of hockey players?

[TSN Jdog]

Essentially pick the 4 players you would want on a Mount Rushmore of players.

I ran out of poll options so hit other and post who you chose if none of the above

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[CatchyTune]

Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr.

 

[Thenameless]

They are not the ones I'd want, but they are the ones that belong there.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Ilya Bryzgalov, Mike Babcock, Tim Thomas, Paul Bissonnette

 

[Varan]

Sean Avery and Martin Brodeur

 

[HarryLime]

The 4 greatest players are Gretzky-Orr-Mario-Howe

If this is hockey mt rushmore there would prob be a spot or 2 devoted to the early greats though. You'd have Taylor, Shore or Morenz on there. Richard or Plante maybe too.

 

[CanadianSniper]

Are we supposed to vote for who are the 4 best players in history, or our 4 favorite players?

 

[TaLoN]

Are we supposed to vote for who are the 4 best players in history, or our 4 favorite players?

Whichever you feel like, it's your vote.

 

[brokeu91]

Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr.

I don’t know how it could be anyone but those four

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Dion Phaneuf
Aki Berg
Vesa Toskala
Andrew Raycroft

 

[LeapOnOver]

Bossy, Potvin, Trottier, B. Sutter

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Why isn't Ray Bourque on this list?

Brett Hull but not Bobby Hull?

 

[Golden_Jet]

Why isn't Ray Bourque on this list?

Brett Hull but not Bobby Hull?

Agree, where is Bobby Hull

 

[Incognito]

I don’t know how it could be anyone but those four

You can’t even make a case for anyone but those four.

 

[Varan]

Sean Avery and Martin Brodeur

 

[Trap Jesus]

Really the only arguments against Gretzky/Orr/Howe/Lemieux are if you want one of every position or try to break it up by different eras in NHL history. If that's the case, Lemieux probably slides out for someone else as a center whose career overlapped with Gretzky.

 

[Voight]

Gretzky, Lemieux, Howe, Orr.

AINEC applies here

IMO a better idea would be the eliminate those 4 and choose a "Secondary" Rushmore with the remaining players. Thats when it gets interesting.

 

[M88K]

I might be blind and I apologize in advance if that's the case but not including Bourque is a bit bewildering.

My mount Rushmore of hockey though would be named mount douchebag.
Avery, Ott, Cooke, Marchment.

4 of my most hated players all because they are giant POS

 

[joe dirte]

Sean Avery and Martin Brodeur

But all you can see of Brodeur is his blocker due to Avery dancing around in front of him.

 

[Prairie Habs]

The 4 Staal brothers. The lesser 3 would all be turned to stare reverently at Jared.

 

[Varan]

But all you can see of Brodeur is his blocker due to Avery dancing around in front of him.

the first head will be sean dancing and the second will be brodeur being mad LOL

 

[Varan]

The 4 Staal brothers. The lesser 3 would all be turned to stare reverently at Jared.

damn

 

[CatchyTune]

AINEC applies here

IMO a better idea would be the eliminate those 4 and choose a "Secondary" Rushmore with the renaming players. Thats when it gets interesting.

Thats actually a cool idea. It was blatantly obvious for me. For the remaining, I might actually have to think in regards to a secondary lol.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

I'm going to do mount rushmore of post lockout since the overall one has been set for a while.

Crosby, Ovechkin, Malkin, Kane

Predicting post covid mount rushmore:

McDavid, MacKinnon, Draisaitl, Matthews

 

[Hockey Outsider]

AINEC applies here

IMO a better idea would be the eliminate those 4 and choose a "Secondary" Rushmore with the renaming players. Thats when it gets interesting.

Agreed. That's a much more interesting question. One idea might be:

• Howie Morenz - there should a representative from the game's earliest era. Morenz was the greatest player up to WWII. By most written accounts, he was the fastest and most talented player of his era, and was known as the "Babe Ruth" of hockey. He died at age 34, indirectly a result of a career-ending injury. (If you want to pick someone else from hockey's earliest days, Eddie Shore is probably the next best choice, but by all accounts he was a real bastard, and Morenz's sad story, dying young, makes it more compelling).
• Jacques Plante - not quite the greatest goalie ever, but probably in the top three. A balanced resume in terms of personal hardware (Hart trophy winner), statistics (he led the NHL in save percentage five times) and team success (six Stanley Cups). Enormously influential due to pioneering the mask. (If you want to pick a goalie who was both influential and really good, the choices are essentially Plante, Clint Benedict, and Patrick Roy).
• Slava Fetisov - if this is a hockey Mount Rushmore (rather than NHL specific), there should probably be a European player who spent most/all of his career outside of the NHL. Fetisov is probably the best player by this criteria, but a good argument can be made for Sergei Makarov, Vladislav Tretiak, or Valeri Kharlamov (who I think is somewhat overrated but, like Morenz, has the sad story). Or similarly - maybe Borje Salming, who wasn't the first European to play in the NHL, but he was the first star.
• The fourth spot is wide open. For a long time, Maurice Richard was the consensus #5 player in history and is still practically worshiped among Francophones in Quebec. If you want a modern representative (ie post Gretzky), you can make a case for Crosby, Ovechkin or maybe one day McDavid. Bobby Hull might be a good candidate too (he's another candidate for #5 all-time, and was hugely influential due to the usage of the curved blade). I might argue for Jean Beliveau (the epitome of class, and a career roughly as good as Richard's or Hull's).