2025 HHOF

[vadim sharifijanov]

i’ll admit i don’t know much about the women’s game outside of watching gold medal games every four years and knowing the big names, but i am surprised manon rheaume isn’t in the hall yet.

 

[jigglysquishy]

There's still a few big names to go in. Jennifer Botterill. Hilda Ranscombe is an easy old name.

 

[vikash1987]

6th year:
Elias
Lecavalier
B. Richards

I don’t think they should or will be inducted, but IF it does happen for them this year (or in the future), it wouldn’t surprise me if Lecavalier and Richards go in together. The whole teammate thing seems to be something that the Selection Committee tries to weave in every so often

 

[The Panther]

I don’t think they should or will be inducted, but IF it does happen for them this year (or in the future), it wouldn’t surprise me if Lecavalier and Richards go in together. The whole teammate thing seems to be something that the Selection Committee tries to weave in every so often

I can't see either Lecavalier or Richards making it. There's already a backlog of guys like Zetterberg who are more deserving (in my opinion).

 

[Staniowski]

I don’t think they should or will be inducted, but IF it does happen for them this year (or in the future), it wouldn’t surprise me if Lecavalier and Richards go in together. The whole teammate thing seems to be something that the Selection Committee tries to weave in every so often

I also don't think either Lecavalier or Richards will ever be inducted. The names I mentioned are just those, going back six years of becoming eligible, who might at least have some support. You never know, but I don't see it.

I agree about the teammate thing. I think the Selection Committee probably (sometimes) discusses things like this.

 

[Staniowski]

They've got to put the brakes on the female players. Pretty soon practically every regular on the U.S. or Canada since 1998 or so will be in the HOF. That's not right.

My Best-Carey

Yeah, the Selection Committee is going to have to figure this out. Inducting women players is still relatively new, and they're going to have to get a feel for the right amount of selections over the long term, though the quality of the women's game might change a bit over the long term too.

It was similar with the men, who were first Inducted in 1945. The early decades of hockey- probably the first 30 years or so - are wildly overrepresented in the HHOF, to such an extent that almost all of the weakest inductees are from those early eras.

And then it became more reasonable.

The men and women might always be on a somewhat different wavelengths with regards to quality. Time will tell.

Maybe the women will end up similar to Referees/Linsemen, where there's only an induction every several years, or maybe something more than that but less than one or two every year.

 

[The Macho King]

I think you'll be correct, but I could also see them trying to make space to put Thornton and Marleau in at the same time.

I feel like if Marleau has any shot, it will have to be in the same class as Thornton. Mind you, they shouldn't, but I don't think you have to squint too hard to see that happening.

Jesus Marleau better not get in.

Edit: and the sad part is despite how terrible an induction it would be, im not even sure it's bottom 5 from the last decade.

 

[jigglysquishy]

The HHoF has done a poor job of representing pre 1900 hockey.

No Weldy Young. No Jack Campbell. No Dolly Swift.