Who is the best face-off man in NHL history?

Padan

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Maybe not the best guys, but Detroit was pretty solid on face-offs with Steve Yzerman, Kris Draper and Sergei Fedorov (all well above 50%, especially Yzerman).

Ron Francis needs more love here.
 

sarge88

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"Best at faceoffs" from the coach's polls (runners up in paranthesis)

1971: Derek Sanderson (Stan Mikita)
1974: Stan Mikita (Bobby Clarke, Phil Esposito)
1976: Bobby Clarke (Stan Mikita, Doug Jarvis)
1979: Bobby Clarke (Doug Jarvis, Stan Mikita)
1984: Bryan Trottier (Doug Jarvis, Barry Pederson, Bobby Clarke)

Full voting results for the 1990s:

1993: Joel Otto (4), Peter Stastny (3), Ron Francis (3), Doug Gilmour (2), Adam Oates (2), Peter Zezel (1), Mark Messier (1), Mario Lemieux (1), Steve Yzerman (1), Jari Kurri (1), Dale Hunter (1), Brent Sutter (1)
1994: Ron Francis (10), Joel Otto (7), Doug Gilmour (1), Ron Sutter (1), Adam Oates (1)



Dave Poulin was pretty good as well.
 

begbeee

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Very good choices.

I would mentioned Guy Carbonneau and Joel Otto was very good specialist, too.

As I read, Peter Stastny trained faceoffs a lot, he considered face-offs as one of the most important parts of the game. Sure no TOP 10 pick, maybe HM. I have seen him only in very late part of his career, so I may be wrong.
 

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