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Favorite NHL Player of All Time - Your Top 3

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I'm 100% sure nobody will agree with me, but imho, if you ignore heart/effort, and hockey sense. Alexei Kovalev is the 2nd most talented player of all time behind Jaromir Jagr. I'm talking about skating, hands, passing, shooting, dangle, etc, etc, etc. Those are the guys who consistently had my jaw on the floor.

AK27 was an incredible player to watch..and if he didnt have some long bouts of laziness he'd be a first ballot hall of famer. And he's still got a 1000 nhl points.
 
Inferno said:
I'm 100% sure nobody will agree with me, but imho, if you ignore heart/effort, and hockey sense. Alexei Kovalev is the 2nd most talented player of all time behind Jaromir Jagr. I'm talking about skating, hands, passing, shooting, dangle, etc, etc, etc. Those are the guys who consistently had my jaw on the floor.

AK27 was an incredible player to watch..and if he didnt have some long bouts of laziness he'd be a first ballot hall of famer. And he's still got a 1000 nhl points.
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I can not say 2nd most talented but he is high on the list for sure. I know he had some times he did not give 100% in the NHL as he got older but I believe overall he worked very hard on his skills. Nobody could ever shoot, stick handle or skate like him if they did not work extremely hard to sharpen those gifts. When I see skills like those I know that player put in 1000s of hours of work trying to perfect them.
 
Inferno said:
I'm 100% sure nobody will agree with me, but imho, if you ignore heart/effort, and hockey sense. Alexei Kovalev is the 2nd most talented player of all time behind Jaromir Jagr. I'm talking about skating, hands, passing, shooting, dangle, etc, etc, etc. Those are the guys who consistently had my jaw on the floor.

AK27 was an incredible player to watch..and if he didnt have some long bouts of laziness he'd be a first ballot hall of famer. And he's still got a 1000 nhl points.
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Kovalev was a better skater and a niftier player with the puck than Jagr. They were both bulls but Jagr was stronger on the puck and smarter with it. Jagr's hockey IQ was higher and his determination was better.

Both should be Hall of Famers but Jagr is the better player by quite a bit.
 
eco's bones said:
Kovalev was a better skater and a niftier player with the puck than Jagr. They were both bulls but Jagr was stronger on the puck and smarter with it. Jagr's hockey IQ was higher and his determination was better.

Both should be Hall of Famers but Jagr is the better player by quite a bit.
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You are 100% correct in stating Jagr was quite a bit better. Jagr is arguably a top 10 player of all time BUT I enjoyed watching Kovy play more. Kovy was an artist on the ice. He entertained me.
 
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Sergei Fedorov - USSR defector, historic two-way player, fast, skilled, literally just everything.

In 1994, he won the Hart, Pearson AND the Selke Trophy, AND won the Faster Skater competition (0.139s behind Gartner's '96 record), AND was named to the NHL First All-Star Team, AND scored 120 points (only 10 behind the #1 - Wayne Gretzky).

· Most overtime points in NHL history
· First Russian to reach 1,000 points
· '94, '96 Selke
· 3 Stanley Cups
· '92, '94 "Faster Skater" winner

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Nick Lidstrom - The perfect hockey player. Basically a handsome robot. Even his English was flawless. SEVEN Norris trophies. Also the first European to captain a championship team. Scored 1,100+ points while also playing perfect defense.



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Pavel Bure - USSR defector, moderately not-slow, swagger, and those gorgeous spaghetti 'Nucks jerseys just looked perfect on him.


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Fedorov has and incredible high-light reel on YT that I enjoy more than any other players, even Gretzky, Lemieux, etc. I also really liked Mats Sundin growing up.



It's hilarious how badly the Wings used to just crush teams.
 
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Mike Gartner by far for my all-time favorite. He was the one I used to try to emulate in backyard street hockey. Hes the one I idoled and took his number for every sport I played.

Kelly Kisio, I met him back in the day as a young kid during Rangers training camp and its one my my most fond memories.

Pavel Datsyuk, because I have always just been in awe of his ability on the ice.
 
aufheben said:
Sergei Fedorov
Nick Lidstrom
Pavel Bure

Fedorov has and incredible high-light reel on YT that I enjoy more than any other players, even Gretzy, Lemieux, etc.



It's hilarious how badly the Wings used to just crush teams.
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Fedorov, Bure and Mogilney came in to this league and made it better. They were all fun to watch. Fedorov is arguably one of the fastest guys of all time.
 
ReggieDunlop68 said:
I smell a Whale.
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"Breakfast? Breakfast, shmreakfast. Look at the score, for Christ's sake. It's only in the middle of the second period and I'm running 12 to 2. Breakfasts come and go Rene, but Hartford, "the Whale," they only beat Vancouver once, maybe twice in a lifetime."

NickyFotiu said:
Fedorov, Bure and Mogilney came in to this league and made it better. They were all fun to watch. Fedorov is arguably one of the fastest guys of all time.
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Yeah, maybe I should have been a Red Wings fan. :laugh:
 
Top 3 NYR

1) Brian Leetch
2) Joey Kocur
3) Adam Graves

Top 3 all time (Non-NYR)

1) Pavel Bure
2) Bob Probert
3) Wendel Clark
 
Kelly Kissio, Mullen and Ogrodnick were a cool line to watch.

I forgot Theo as well as a favorite.
 
Jagr, Gaborik, Zuccarello.

One representative of each era of Rangers I've watched.
 
I would add Anders Hedberg and Jan Erixon to my list of favorite players. Loved the way Hedberg skated and he was the guy whose skating style I worked at copying. Erixon was probably the most brilliant of defensive forwards the Rangers ever had. Best penalty killing forward ever. Sometimes he'd skate the puck into the corner and kick it around between his skates and stick for a minute or more with two/three guys trying to get the puck away from him.
 
ReggieDunlop68 said:
I smell a Whale.
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True story: I was at the game where Richter tied the record for consecutive wins by a goalie. Was like 14 or 15 in my green Whalers Jersey down by where the visiting team entered and exited at MSG. When the Whalers were coming off the ice I saw Big Jim McKenzie (another one of my faves) had picked up the puck and I asked him if I could have the puck. He saw me in a Whalers Jersey in a sea of Rangers fans and dutifully flipped me the puck. So somewhere in my Mom's house in a closet rests a piece of hockey history: The puck from when Richter tied the consecutive wins record.
 
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