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In 2026, as far as I can tell, there are only new candidates with a reasonable chance of being inducted - Patrice Bergeron (virtually certain) and Patrick Marleau (who probably doesn't deserve to be inducted, but the Hall voters seem to like big career totals). I'm assuming Jonathan Toews will return to the NHL (and therefore be ineligible).

Carey Price and Ryan Getzlaf (both eligible this year) might be inducted next June. Other good choices include Patrik Elias, Henrik Zetterberg, and Curtis Joseph. (I'm assuming the hockey establishment won't stop holding a grudge against deserving NHL players like JC Tremblay and Theo Fleury, nor will they suddenly start inducted old Soviet greats like Anatoli Firsov, Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Vasiliev).

(EDIT - reading @jigglysquishy's post, I forgot about Staal. He has a good chance for 2026 as well).
 
BenchBrawl said:
Next year, ignoring the old-timers facing injustice: Zetterberg, Price, Getzlaf & Elias would be my calls.
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This likely won't be a popular opinion, but Stan Fischler and Don Cherry being inducted in the builders category before they pass would be awesome. Both are in their 90's.

I'm aware there's probably a miniscule chance of either ever getting in, for one of many reasons being them pissing off many people in the hockey establishment. The people in hockey circles will hold grudges forever.

But both are 100% deserving in my view.
 
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Habsfan18 said:
This likely won't be a popular opinion, but Stan Fischler and Don Cherry being inducted in the builders category before they pass would be awesome. Both are in their 90's.

I'm aware there's probably a miniscule chance of either ever getting in, for one of many reasons being them pissing off many people in the hockey establishment. The people in hockey circles will hold grudges forever.

But both are 100% deserving in my view.
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100% agree

Seems like it's deliberate at this point.

Baseball is doing it with Rose.

WWE did it with people like Chyna and Vader.
 
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Hockey Outsider said:
Carey Price and Ryan Getzlaf (both eligible this year) might be inducted next June. Other good choices include Patrik Elias, Henrik Zetterberg, and Curtis Joseph. (I'm assuming the hockey establishment won't stop holding a grudge against deserving NHL players like JC Tremblay and Theo Fleury, nor will they suddenly start inducted old Soviet greats like Anatoli Firsov, Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Vasiliev).
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Zetterberg not getting in has been absolutely baffling to me. Doubly so because he and Datsyuk basically had twin careers and Datsyuk was inducted immediately.

Very surprised that Mogilny went in over Price today.
 
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The Macho Man said:
Mogilny....

*sigh*

Honestly I'd be fine with it as a builder more than as a player. But whatever.
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At this time yesterday, I had Mogilny no higher than 7th on my list of deserving un-inducted Russians. But NHL-career, I guess.
Hockey Outsider said:
(I'm assuming the hockey establishment won't stop holding a grudge against deserving NHL players like JC Tremblay and Theo Fleury, nor will they suddenly start inducted old Soviet greats like Anatoli Firsov, Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Vasiliev).
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Not just Soviets- Czechoslovak greats Martinec, Suchý, Holeček and Pospíšil still excluded.

Keith, Chara had the feeling of inevitability. They're obvious choices, even over neglected European stars. Thornton wasn't going to be denied, even though most of us agree that he's not quite as good as his numbers.

Mogilny, though, over at least half-a-dozen more worthy NHLers (to say nothing of the Soviets/Czechoslovaks)?! That one hits the brown note.
 
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BenchBrawl said:
Next year, ignoring the old-timers facing injustice: Zetterberg, Price, Getzlaf & Elias would be my calls.
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The voters are going to be putting Bergeron in right away and Price won;t be skipped 2 years will he?

All 4 guys above deserve to be in the Hall...probably over Mogliny.
 
Price to me is surefire next year.

Are we all in agreement than Jason Spezza isn't a HHOFer? I'd probably induct Keith Tkachuk and Theo Fleury over him and I don't even really consider either player Hall worthy. I suppose Fleury has the strongest case of the three?

Staal is a maybe for me. Leaning no.

Zetterberg, Elias, and Getlzaf are worthy and should all get in over the next few years.

Curtis Joseph I'd have to think will get in eventually. Surely not before Price though.
 
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Habsfan18 said:
Are we all in agreement than Jason Spezza isn't a HHOFer? I'd probably induct Keith Tkachuk and Theo Fleury over him and I don't even really consider either player Hall worthy. I suppose Fleury has the strongest case of the three?
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Don't think so, needed a bit more longevity, either in terms of number of elite high-end seasons or career total padding. His points lean too assist heavy and he doesn't have a claim to fame as being a big two-way guy. Best thing going for him is 10th in aggregate points over an extended period 2003-04 through 2016-17 (ages 20-33) to suggest an overall very good (extended prime), you could squint hard enough and make an adjusted point based argument for why he's more deserving than some other borderline cases, but ultimately I think Peak/Total Longevity are more important and neither is too exceptional so he's easy enough to pass over.
 
i remember after housley surprisingly got in, we started talking about all the borderline 1989-1993 sabres getting in. i never thought it was actually possible, but after andreychuk got in two years later, it probably felt inevitable to a lot of ppl.

so now it’s

housley
andreychuk
barrasso
turgeon
mogilny
hawerchuk
lafontaine
fuhr
hasek

tbf two of them got traded for two others and all three goalies made their hhof cases either not in buffalo or not yet, but still, that’s a bonkers amount of hall of famers for a team that, before hasek took over, won one single playoff round (and then got swept by the habs).

edit: lol forgot about pete (+ funny andy typo — see the quote downthread)
 
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Nick Hansen said:
He had way too many middling years with the Canes where it felt like he was just going through the motions. It's really only the 05/06 season that would even suggest he is a Hall of Famer, otherwise nothing to show for it.
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yeah idk vibes, whatever but Zetterberg's bulk of career value being 2005-06 through 2012-13, age 25-32 for Zetterberg and age 21-28 for Staal you got Staal being 10th in aggregate points (0.98 PPG), Zetterberg 11th in aggregate points (1.02 PPG), Staal 5th in aggregate goals (0.422 GPG), Zetterberg 16th in aggregate goals (0.394 GPG). Both with one Cup where they were very important. Staal played a lot more Center and won about 1,000 more faceoffs (but Zetterberg with a 51.7 % vs. 47.4 % edge)

Red Wing mystique and what have you, but I don't think there's a monster separation between them, especially when you factor in Staal having a 148 point post 2012-13 career edge.
 
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vadim sharifijanov said:
i remember after housley surprisingly got in, we started talking about all the borderline 1989-1993 sabres getting in. i never thought it was actually possible, but after andreychuk got in two years later, it probably felt inevitable to a lot of ppl.

so now it’s

housley
andreychunk
barrasso
mogilny
hawerchuk
lafontaine
fuhr
hasek

tbf two of them got traded for two others and all three goalies made their hhof cases either not in buffalo or not yet, but still, that’s a bonkers amount of hall of famers for a team that, before hasek took over, won one single playoff round (and then got swept by the habs).
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Don't forget about Pete.
 
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Finally Mogilny!!! Better than many guys he joins, more talented than almost all of them

Sucks that Zetterberg missed out again, I'd take him over Chara or Keith
 
Everybody was expecting Chara, Keith, and Thornton, so no surprises there.

With Mogilny, it was just a matter of when it was going to happen. I think a lot of people felt in recent years that it was going to happen soon.

He probably has had the biggest media and fan support for any long-eligible player ever.

Several of the Selection Committee members - including Sakic, Larionov (who gave him his nickname "Magic"), Francis - are very familiar with Mogilny, so that probably helps that they can talk at length about him.
 
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Habsfan18 said:
This likely won't be a popular opinion, but Stan Fischler and Don Cherry being inducted in the builders category before they pass would be awesome. Both are in their 90's.

I'm aware there's probably a miniscule chance of either ever getting in, for one of many reasons being them pissing off many people in the hockey establishment. The people in hockey circles will hold grudges forever.

But both are 100% deserving in my view.
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Extremely unlikely for both. The reason they're unlikely is that media and writers aren't inducted in the Builder category. Foster Hewitt was in 1965, but he probably wouldn't have been if the Foster Hewitt Award had existed at the time. I don't think there are any examples since. It's probably possible, but it would be a big change.
 
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