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.

 

[seventieslord]

I think it's all first year inductees. Price, Chara, Keith, Thornton.

Easiest class to predict in a generation. How can they leave any of those four out? The other first timers are considerably far back from them. Getzlaf would be next best and he's quite distant, and not even 100% of us think he should get in (I do). In the guys who've been waiting for 6 years or fewer, Elias and Zetterberg are slam dunks for me, but not everyone, and they're decidedly behind those four. Plus there's Marleau who everyone begrudgingly agrees will get in, and he's not nearly as good as either of those two or Zetterberg.

So, first and final answer: Price, Chara, Keith, Thornton.

 

[The Pale King]

I'd be more than okay if they made Thornton wait a year to get Zetterberg in there.

 

[Michael Farkas]

Let's not go nuts...

 

[BenchBrawl]

Wait, Zetterberg is not in yet? I'm amazed at that.

He was too good, too prominent & warrior-like in that classic playoff duology against Pittsburgh to stay out.

Not saying he should be ranked over the newer candidates but Z feels like a player we want in the HHoF given current standards.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'd include Price, Chara, Zetterberg and Keith.

Then Getzlaf.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Thornton should be punished for a couple years. I like him but they have to make an example out of him, to teach the others. Like Auston Matthews, for example.

 

[Sergei Bure]

Wait, Zetterberg is not in yet? I'm amazed at that.

He was too good, too prominent & warrior-like in that classic playoff duology against Pittsburgh to stay out.

Not saying he should be ranked over the newer candidates but Z feels like a player we want in the HHoF given current standards.

He was much more decisive than Datsyuk ever was in the playoffs...

 

[FlashyDeke]

He was much more decisive than Datsyuk ever was in the playoffs...

You are not wrong.He was ENG Artist

 

[wetcoast]

Thornton should be punished for a couple years. I like him but they have to make an example out of him, to teach the others. Like Auston Matthews, for example.

Punished for what exactly?

Either a guy is a HHOFer or he isn't?

AM is also tracking as a "first ballot" HHOFer.

Not every HHOFer has an Orr or Gretzky type of resume, guys like Thornton and AM (in 5 years) will both have better than average HHOF resumes.