Your top 10 playoff performers of all-time

[TheDevilMadeMe]

The gvt/g forwards look just as biased towards post-expansion players, so the problem isn't just with lack of early save percentage data like I thought it might have been.

 

[blogofmike]

The top 9 gvt/game goalies all played after expansion? That tells me that it isn't helpful in evaluating pre-expansion goalies.

I think the problem is that the cutoff needs to change according to era. Older goalies didn't have the GP that the modern goalies did, for obvious reasons.

Maybe I'll try the table again tomorrow. Maybe 60 post-1968/30 pre-68
as a cutoff would work.

 

[Luigi Habs]

Forsberg

 

[ecemleafs]

how many games played is the "cutoff"?

 

[Victory5]

Briere


especially considering his often lack-luster regular season performance

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

By this do you mean guys who step it up in the playoffs? If so, Briere is definitely on this list.

 

[Sidney BrOSSby*]

how many games played is the "cutoff"?

Maybe 45?

 

[member 151739]

Claude Lemieux.

 

[ecemleafs]

Leetch was just over a point per game in his career and won a smythe but since we sucked for the 2nd half of his career he only had 95 games played.

 

[Ceremony]

Joe Sakic, Patrick Roy

 

[Trist and Sea]

Claude Lemieux.

First thing I thought when I saw this thread.

 

[ThatAvsGamer]

Quick last year? Or what Giguere did in 03?

If the question is solo performances.

If all time. You gotta throw in Gretzky and his all time leading points, goals and assists in playoffs.

 

[Stupid Sexy Flanders]

Some names that should be in the mix:
Messier
Sakic
Stevens
Pronger
Trottier
Claude Lemieux

 

[samsquanch9*]

Cammalleri is good in the playoffs

 

[FakeKidPoker*]

Ever... guys like Messier, Gretzky, Lemieux... obviously.

Right now? Kane.

 

[Neonmile]

Jari Kurri has to be in the mix too. After all is the only player to be 4 time the playoff goal scoring leader of a champion team. And has been consistenly good in play-off. 86 and 93 are is only 'weak' play off. Maybe his last ones too considering he was then healty sratch for few games with the Avs. But apart from these he always show up, and a score a tons of clutch goal.

 

[WolfgangAmadeusEller*]

Roy
Gretzky
Messier
Lemieux
Lemieux
Sakic
Brodeur
Frosberg

 

[Tage2Tuch]

Gretzky doesent hold the record for goals in a playoff season.


anyway:

Drury
Briere
C Lemiuex
M Lemiuex
W Gretzky
M Messier
Francis
Hunter
Scott Niedermayer
Nicklas Lidstrom
Scott Stevens
Brian Leetch
Bobby Orr
Jagr
Ovechkin
Crosby
Malkin
Brodeur
Hasek
Roy
Giguere
Thomas
Sakic
Forsberg
Eric Staal
Sykora



many more

 

[Agnostic]

Gretzky
Roy
Lafleur
Sakic
Lemieux(Mario)
Robinson
Lidstrom
Trottier
Yzerman
Lemaire
Messier


So many honorable mentions

 

[Sidney BrOSSby*]

Gretzky and Lemieux are the consensus top two for skaters.

I'll be the f to diagree. While success had followed both players, neither raises their respective game to a level I would describe peer-to-peer as a playoff performer. They can be described only as success.

 

[Hammer Time]

Gretzky - 4 Cups, 2 CS
Patrick Roy - 4 Cups, 3 CS
Kurri - 5 Cups, 92 goals in 10 playoffs with the Oilers
Messier - 6 Cups, nearly 300 pts in playoffs
Rocket Richard - 82 goals in 133 playoff games
Sawchuk - 4 Cups. He even managed to win one for the Leafs.

Current:
Crosby - He's been above 1P/G every playoff he's played. Cup and another final.
Zetterberg - 51 playoff goals in 109 games. Cup, Conn Smythe.
Pronger - finals with 3 different teams.

 

[RMimagery]

Billy Smith, the "money goalie"

and Trotts http://sports.ca.msn.com/nhl/photos/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=23885773&page=3

 

[EvilElf63]

This thread was made for Patrick Roy right?

Hard to argue with Messier too.

 

[Sidney BrOSSby*]

Theres two forwards you would rather have?

I'd rather have david volek.

 

[OntheBackcheck]

Gretzky doesent hold the record for goals in a playoff season.


anyway:

Drury
Briere
C Lemiuex
M Lemiuex
W Gretzky
M Messier
Francis
Hunter
Scott Niedermayer
Nicklas Lidstrom
Scott Stevens
Brian Leetch
Bobby Orr
Jagr
Ovechkin
Crosby
Malkin
Brodeur
Hasek
Roy
Giguere
Thomas
Sakic
Forsberg
Eric Staal
Sykora



many more

Very solid list. I will add: Yzerman, Fedorov, Ozzie, Vernon, Belfour, Fuhr, Richter, Gilmour, Trottier, Recchi, Chelios. Murphy, Robinson, Potvin, Bourque

Perhaps undervalued playoff goalies:

Cujo
Kolzig
Vanbiesbrouck
Lalime