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HFAvs Ranks: The 50 Greatest Avalanche Players - #1

Who is the greatest Avalanche player?

  • Milan Hejduk

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Joe Sakic

    Votes: 80 88.9%

  • Gabriel Landeskog

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nathan MacKinnon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Peter Forsberg

    Votes: 8 8.9%

  • Patrick Roy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Cale Makar

    Votes: 2 2.2%
  • Total voters
    90
  • Poll closed .
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I've had an idea. Let's decide who the greatest players in Avalanche history are.
  • You decide what "greatest" means.
  • Only judge players based on their Avalanche careers. This means no extra points for Sakic's time with the Nordiques, or Ray Bourque's time with the Bruins.
  • Poll will be open for a few days.
  • Each time you vote, suggest a player who should be added for the next round.
  • If there's no consensus on who should be added I'll just pick the next player who's played the most games.
  • Here's a list of everyone: Colorado Avalanche all-time player list at hockeydb.com
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Milan Hejduk​
(1998-2013)[/TD]
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Joe Sakic
(1995-2009)[/TD]
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Gabriel Landeskog
(2011-present)[/TD]
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Nathan MacKinnon
(2013-present)[/TD]
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Peter Forsberg
(1995-2004, 2008, 2011)[/TD]
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Patrick Roy (1995-2003)[/TD]
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Cale Makar (2018-present)[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Games Played: 1020[/TD]
[TD]Games played: 870[/TD]
[TD]Games played: 738[/TD]
[TD]Games played: 709[/TD]
[TD]Games played: 544[/TD]
[TD]Games played: 478[/TD]
[TD]Games played:
238[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Goals: 375[/TD]
[TD]Goals: 391[/TD]
[TD]Goals: 248[/TD]
[TD]Goals: 284[/TD]
[TD]Goals: 202[/TD]
[TD]I forgot goalies would screw the table up[/TD]
[TD]Goals: 65[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Assists: 430[/TD]
[TD]Assists: 624[/TD]
[TD]Assists: 323[/TD]
[TD]Assists: 475[/TD]
[TD]Assists: 503[/TD]
[TD]Wins:
262[/TD]
[TD]Assists: 181[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Points: 805[/TD]
[TD]Points: 1015[/TD]
[TD]Points: 571[/TD]
[TD]Points: 759[/TD]
[TD]Points: 705[/TD]
[TD]Shutouts:
37[/TD]
[TD]Points: 246[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Awards: Stanley Cup (2001), Rocket Richard Trophy (2003)[/TD]
[TD]Awards: Stanley Cup (1996, 2001), Hart Trophy (2001), Conn Smythe Trophy (1996)[/TD]
[TD]Awards: Stanley Cup (2022), Calder Trophy (2012)[/TD]
[TD]Awards:
Stanley Cup (2022), Calder Trophy (2014), Lady Byng Trophy (2020)[/TD]
[TD]Awards: Stanley Cup (1996, 2001), Hart Trophy (2003)[/TD]
[TD]Awards:
Stanley Cup (1996, 2001), Conn Smythe Trophy (2001)[/TD]
[TD]Awards: Stanley Cup (2022), Conn Smythe Trophy (2022), Norris Trophy (2022)[/TD]
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Listed are the players who have won an individual trophy with the Avalanche (and have a chance of being top three at least). I don't know how long I'll be engaged enough to keep making these tables.
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dahrougem2 said:
Went with Sakic because even though IMO Forsberg was better in 97, 98, 99, 00, and 03, Sakic was better in the years we won the Cup and those years he was almost unstoppable.
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I think Foppa has peak, but Sakic was right behind him(at minimum) and better for a much longer time.
 
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1. Sakic
2. Roy
3. Forsberg
4. MacKinnon
5. Landeskog
6. Hejduk
7. Makar

It's only a matter of time for Nate and Cale to keep climbing. Hopefully Landeskog can eventually get back on the ice too.

Glad Hejduk was at least considered. I almost had to fight everybody on this forum when people were whining about his jersey retirement.
 
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famicommander said:
1. Sakic
2. Roy
3. Forsberg
4. MacKinnon
5. Landeskog
6. Hejduk
7. Makar

It's only a matter of time for Nate and Cale to keep climbing. Hopefully Landeskog can eventually get back on the ice too.

Glad Hejduk was at least considered. I almost had to fight everybody on this forum when people where whining about his jersey retirement.
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I'd put Makar over Hejduk pretty easily and Landy. I'd personally go over Mack as well I think, but could understand Mack still being over Makar.
 
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famicommander said:
1. Sakic
2. Roy
3. Forsberg
4. MacKinnon
5. Landeskog
6. Hejduk
7. Makar

It's only a matter of time for Nate and Cale to keep climbing. Hopefully Landeskog can eventually get back on the ice too.

Glad Hejduk was at least considered. I almost had to fight everybody on this forum when people were whining about his jersey retirement.
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I'll save my bit on #23 for his thread then

UncleRisto said:
This is about to be tough. It's not yet, though.
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I am genuinely more excited to see the bottom ten than the top ten.
 
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The Abusement Park said:
I'd put Makar over Hejduk pretty easily and Landy. I'd personally go over Mack as well I think, but could understand Mack still being over Makar.
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Makar just needs time and he'll have passed them both. But I'm not willing to put him up there after only 238 games.
 
famicommander said:
Makar just needs time and he'll have passed them both. But I'm not willing to put him up there after only 238 games.
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I mean Makars peak and impact is far above Hejduks regardless of games played. And that's not a slight at Hejduk at all. That's just how special a talent Makar is.
 
Earlier in the season, I said that Nate was on well on his way to becoming my favorite Av ever. However, I am still going with Forsberg. If Nate gets another cup, he'll probably get the vote. The active players are at a disadvantage possibly, there is no telling how their stories ends. Nate, Cale, and even Landy...those are incomplete grades we have right now. So I can really only look at those that have retired.

We're talking greatest Av, not longest tenured, not the ability to hold a high level of play forever, but the greatest. And the greatest Avs performances I have ever seen have mostly involved Forsberg being Forsberg. His ability to take over a game was unlike anything I have seen another player really do. Yes, every name up there was/is capable of taking a game over, but Forsberg? Man, that was special.
 
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McMetal said:
Who to add is a tricky one, but I'll go with Rantanen.
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If we manage to keep him, I'd imagine he's passing a lot of Hejduk's numbers. That's going to account for something. Also, I know the playoffs left a bad taste in everyone's mouth, but the way he put the team on his back when EVERYONE else was injured was something to behold. This was a statement season from Mikko when all is said and done.
 
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The guy with 391 goals and 1015 points in 870 regular season games. Who also has 77 goals and 177 points in 160 playoff games. Who also happens to have a Hart, Lindsay, Conn Smythe and 3 Stanley Cup Rings

Even without his time in Quebec, Burnaby Joe had a HHOF career
 
GeoRox89 said:
The guy with 391 goals and 1015 points in 870 regular season games. Who also has 77 goals and 177 points in 160 playoff games. Who also happens to have a Hart, Lindsay, Conn Smythe and 3 Stanley Cup Rings

Even without his time in Quebec, Burnaby Joe had a HHOF career
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Also signed with NYR. I have no idea why I never got past that. But the mind does what the mind does. Joe signed with another team. Peter Forsberg spent the rest of his life trying to come back to the Avalanche after being a flat-out cap casualty. There was nobody that wanted that relationship to ever end.
 
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