Your top 10 favorite players ever?

[Jarko2004]

Tiger Williams
Guy Lafluer
Yvan Courneyer
Bobby Clarke
Bobby Orr
Dale Hunter
Trevor Linden
Geoff Courtnall
Harold Snepts
Herni Richard




..cnter

 

[RLC]

Orr
Bourque
Harvey
Robinson

Gretsky
Lemieux
Lafleur
M.Richard
Forsberg
Kharlamov

Roy
Tretiak
Brodeur

Coach- S.Bowman, Toe Blake

GM- Sam Pollock

 

[c-carp]

I am perposly leaving out the big 4 (Gretz, Orr, Howe, Lemieux) just so I can get 4 more names onn there because I want to have a different list.

Brian Sutter-My Favorite player as a young lad. eppitomised what I still love about hockey today. He had the skill but he also had as much heart as anyone to ever play. Give me 18 Sutters plus 2 goalies anyday.

Denis Savard-He played for the Hawks for a good part of his career so I hate the SOB in one sence but man could he dangle.

Ray Bourque-The best D-man I ever saw play live.

Mark Messier-Much like Sutter heart wise but Lots more skill and thats not meant to be a shot at Sudsy.

Brett Hull-For 3 years the Blues were basically up 1-0 when they came out for warmups because he was good for almost a goal a game. As I get Older he may climb further up this list because he may have well been the best pure goal scorer I ever saw. He is definatly one of the best no question.

Patrick Roy-The Best goalie I ever Saw play.

Mike Liut-The first Blues Goalie that I ever saw that could steal a game.

Mike Bossy-If Hull wasnt the Best goal scorer that I saw he was.

Bob Probert-The toughest SOB I ever saw play so he gets mention here in my book.

Dave Brown-The second toughest SOB I ever saw play live also gets some props.

 

[c-carp]

1. Mario Lemieux
2. John Vanbiesbrouck
3. Pavel Bure
Matthew Barnaby
Theo Fleury
Radek Bonk
Tony Twist
Jagr
Chirs Pronger
Shawn McEachern
Paul Coffey (ok, that's eleven)

In no particular order except for the first three.

Good call on the Twister. He almost made my List I had fun watching him kick ass while he was with the Blues.

 

[Frightened Inmate #2]

1. Bobby Clarke
2. Bobby orr
3. Gordie Howe
4. Trevor Linden
5. Kirk Muller
6. Esa Tikkinen
7. Kirk McLean
8. Phil Esposito
9. Mark Messier
10. Gino Odjick


HM: Reggie Dunlop

 

[Jazz]

No particular order.

Steve Yzerman
Igor Larionov
Wayne Gretzky
Pat Lafontaine
Petr Statsny
Mike Bossy
Jeremy Roenick
Greg Adams
Jari Kurri
???

 

[c-carp]

1. Bobby Clarke
2. Bobby orr
3. Gordie Howe
4. Trevor Linden
5. Kirk Muller
6. Esa Tikkinen
7. Kirk McLean
8. Phil Esposito
9. Mark Messier
10. Gino Odjick


HM: Reggie Dunlop

i would go with Moe or "Killer Carlson"

 

[Hawker14]

1. teemu selanne
2. charlie simmer
3. darryl sittler
4. jari kurri
5. borje salming
6. mike palmateer
7. kevin lowe
8. tie domi
9. wayne gretzky
10. grant fuhr

 

[salzy]

1. Rick Tocchet



HUGE GAP



2. Lindros
3. Gretzky
4. Lemieux
5. Clarke
6. Yzerman
7. Probert
8. Neely
9. Sakic
10. Antropov

 

[mr gib]

bobby hull
tony esposito
darryl sittler
trevor linden
wayne gretzky - post oilers
markus naslund
mattias ohland
peter forsberg
joe sakic
mario

dood's right - forgot pavel

 

[MB1]

Brian Sutter - more heart than any hockey player ever
Bobby Orr - still the best NHLer ever in my book
Bob Gassoff
Peter Forsberg
Barclay Plager
Al MacInnis
Joe Mullen
Pavel Bure
Scott Stevens
Tony Esposito (I idolized him as a kid)

HM - Chris Pronger, Martin St. Louis, Brett Hull, Dirk Graham, Doug Gilmour, Jacques Caron, Jim Schoenfeld, Wendel Clark, Curtis Joseph

 

[gary69]

Limiting my selection to players I saw live (under 30's not considered here for all-time favourites)

1. Paul Coffey - I rather watched him than 10 master defensive d-man (Since I don't remember seing Orr live in action, although I'm told I did see him, but I can't remember it, was too young)
2. Pavel Bure - Most exciting player ever
3. Sergei Fedorov - Could (can?) do everything, and with style, too
4. Dominik Hasek - Goaltending can be something else than boring positioning, butterfly, angles and percentage play
5. Steve Yzerman
6. Joe Sakic
7. Wayne Gretzky
8. Paul Kariya
9. Mike Bossy
10. Cam Neely

Players I would have liked to see, they might have made my list from what I've read (in order): Cyclone Taylor, Joe Malone, Eddie Shore.

 

[Hyped]

I can't really put an order on them so here's a list of 10 players I loved watching play:

Patrick Roy
Vladislav Tretiak
Guy Carbonneau
Brian Propp
Guy Lafleur
Valeri Kharlamov
Joe Sakic
Larry Robinson
Steve Yzerman
Chris Chelios

 

[Snap Wilson]

Corrado Micalef...


um....

 

[Chili]

That reminds me...Roberto Romano

 

[CrazyCanucks]

1. Pavel Bure (I wish he still played for the Canucks, what talent we would see everynight)
2. Wayne Gretzky
3. Brendan Shanahan
4. Alex Mogilny
5. Stevie Y
6. Joe Sakic
7. Trevor Linden
8. Greg Adams
9. Marty Broduer - He will shatter all of Roys records
10. Andre "Red Light" Racicot

 

[Duster]

Everyone 's got great lists. There might be better all round players but these guys were/are pure excitement. In no particular order:

- The Rocket
- Bobby Orr
- Lafleur
- Denis Savard
- Bure
- Gilbert Perreault
- Lemieux
- Gretzky
- Coffee
- Tretiak

 

[Peter25]

1. Peter Stastny
2. Milan Marcetta
3. Marian Stastny
4. Anton Stastny
5. Yan Stastny
6. Paul Stastny
7. Slava Kozlov
8. Miro Satan
9. Todd Bertuzzi
10. Brian Swanson

You forgot Bohuslav Stastny.

 

[Psycho Papa Joe]

1a Ken Dryden
1b Larry Robinson
1c Guy Lafleur
4 Steve Yzerman
5 Wayne Gretzky
6 Mario Lemieux
7 Daryl Sittler
8 Mark Messier
9 Mike Bossy
10 Pat Roy

 

[Comrie_fan]

1-Mats Naslund (speed speed and speed)
2-Brian Bellows (the master of the deflect shot)
3-Curtis Joseph (When he was with the blues and the oilers, he can win a playoff by himself and he receive 45, 50, 75 shots. Spectacullar !)
3-Brian Hayward (maybe the last great backup goalie of the habs)
4-Guy Lafleur ( great speaking tell everething he think, great hockey player and he have a very good restaurant)
5-Pat Lafontaine (with Alex Mogilny wow)
6- Petr Bondra (remember him with the great Michal Pivonka)
7- Dale Hunter (i hated him in the 80 but what a player)
8- Cam Neely (great player with a dirty nose)
9- Ketih Tkachuk (what a trio with Zhamnov and Selanne in Winnipeg. The perfect line)
10- Pelle Lindberg (The first match, i saw he shootut Lafleur and cie. He was a great goalie)

 

[scribe114]

Gordie Howe
Mark Messier
Denis Potvin
Red Kelly
Terry Sawchuk
Stefan Perrson
Gil Perreault
Brian Trottier
John Ogrodnick
Dale Hawerchuk

Honorable Mention: Barry Beck

 

[e-e]

joe nieuwendyk
peter bondra
joe sakic
vladimir dzurila
sergej makarov
jerome iginla
jozef golonka
igor liba
chris simon
michal handzus

 

[RorschachWJK]

1. Esa Tikkanen
2. Jari Kurri
3. Saku Koivu
4. Teemu Selänne
5. Jere Lehtinen
6. The Soviet Green Unit
7. Teppo Numminen
8. Wayne Gretzky
9. Mario Lemieux
10. Sami Kapanen

Honourable mentions: Jagr, Forsberg, Nylander, Ruzicka, Sundin...

I forgot goalies...Tretyak and Hasek certainly belong up there, maybe Roy as well

 

[Pantokrator]

1) Dave Poulin
2) Keith Acton
2) Ilkka Sinisalo
4) Rod Brind'Amour
5) Paul Fenton
6) Mike Gartner
7) Tie Domi
8) Mats Sundin
9) Peter Stasny
10) Mike Ricci

 

[Matsi]

Ray Whitney
Jonathan Cheechoo
Teppo Numminen
Paul Ranheim
Juha Ylönen
Marco Sturm
Shane Doan
Goran Bezina
Flavien Conne
Martin Gerber