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Just for fun, the number of future HHOFers on Team Canada 2025

Crosby2010

Crosby2010

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Just for the heck of it, this is not fool proof. It isn't written in stone. Some of them would be in if they retired tomorrow, others you have to try a projection. So that's what I'll do. Bolded are the ones I predict

Reinhart-McDavid-Marner
Hagel-MacKinnon-Point
Marchand-Crosby-Konecny
Bennett-Cirelli-Stone
Jarvis

Toews-Makar
Theodore-Doughty
Morrissey-Parayko
Sanheim

Hill
Binnington
Montembeault

*edit - Pieterangelo being replaced by Doughty is a future HHOFer in my mind


This is actually quite light from year's past. Take that as you will. Does that mean Canada just has a younger team? Not sure. Because Bennett and Cirelli aren't rookies by any means and they aren't HHOFers. Hagel is 26. No one other than maybe Jarvis is young enough where you can say "alright, let's see what he can do." Most are 27-28 and if they haven't done anything noticeable that will get them in there with their body of work than it probably isn't happening. None of the goalies, no chance. All of them are either over 30 or approaching it. Stone won't get in either. There is one name that has been impressive and is certainly playing at a HHOF level now and its Reinhart. We'll see with him, time will tell, but he's 28 himself so he needs some big years to show this. If you compare this to past tournaments this team does not have the future HHOFers.

1972: 14 (does that surprise people it was that low? I even included Dionne who didn't play a game. It was out of 35 players)
1976: 18 (a quicker list is the ones who aren't there, and even then we've discussed them. Martin, P. Mahovlich, Leach, Gare, Resch, Watson)
1979: 20 (no kidding!)
1981: 12
1984: 14
1987: 12 (lower than you might think)
1991: 11
1996: 11
1998: 14 (that might surprise you it is that high. Not everyone in their prime though)
2002: 14
2004: 8 (a younger team, some non-HHOFers with very good careers though)
2006: 9
this point onwards this includes projections/probables as well
2010: 14 (pretty loaded, and I did not have Staal, Heatley, Marleau, Perry among them)
2014: 12
2016: 12 (and for the record I didn't include Perry, Burns or Giroux)


You tell me, does this matter or not? The fact that the stronger teams we think about in history have a higher number isn't surprising. But the last time we were this low we had a bad tournament and that was 2006. If we add Reinhart that's 9 HHOFers on this team with very little wiggle room and not really a lot of "we'll see" types. Is that important do you think?
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Reinhart
McDavid - YES
Marner - YES
Hagel
MacKinnon - YES
Point - YES
Marchand - YES
Crosby - Maybe
Konecny
Bennett
Cirelli
Stone - YES
Jarvis

Toews
Makar - YES
Theodore
Doughty - YES
Morrissey - YES
Parayko
Sanheim
 
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The two you added were Stone and Morrissey. I'm not seeing it with Stone. Already 32 years old, what will he do that catapults him?

Morrissey the last two or three seasons he's been good. Overall a lousy playoff performer though. 5th and 7th in the Norris voting. That's not bad, but he will be 30 next month. He's really going to have to make it up in his 30s.
 
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Crosby2010 said:
The two you added were Stone and Morrissey. I'm not seeing it with Stone. Already 32 years old, what will he do that catapults him?

Morrissey the last two or three seasons he's been good. Overall a lousy playoff performer though. 5th and 7th in the Norris voting. That's not bad, but he will be 30 next month. He's really going to have to make it up in his 30s.
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You're probably right on both of them. I just coloured the players who popped into my head from the list.
 
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Stone won a Cup and he's been a huge factor in Vegas hockey so...
I could see them adding him as the first Golden Knight in the HOF.

Having said all that, Stone does take a LOT of "sick days".
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On his current trajectory I strongly doubt it. His resume is pretty nonexistent. He’s been a Selke finalist twice and that’s it. No major awards. His counting stats are quite pedestrian as well. Only 226 goals and has only surpassed 30 goals once. Not even a point-per-game player. He’s played 60+ games in a season only once since 2018-19. At 32, it seems unlikely he will suddenly compile some elite seasons to pad the resume. A good comparison for him would be Jere Lehtinen, both excellent defensive wingers. Lehtinen isn’t a hall of famer in my book and his resume is far better than Stone (3 Selkes and Selke finalist 3 other times).
 
There’s 5 players who I think are locks. Crosby, McDavid, MacKinnon, Doughty, Makar

After that Marchand and Marner have decent chances
 
Crosby2010 said:
Just for the heck of it, this is not fool proof. It isn't written in stone. Some of them would be in if they retired tomorrow, others you have to try a projection. So that's what I'll do. Bolded are the ones I predict

Reinhart-McDavid-Marner
Hagel-MacKinnon-Point
Marchand-Crosby-Konecny
Bennett-Cirelli-Stone
Jarvis

Toews-Makar
Theodore-Doughty
Morrissey-Parayko
Sanheim

Hill
Binnington
Montembeault

*edit - Pieterangelo being replaced by Doughty is a future HHOFer in my mind
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McDavid, Mack, Crosby, Makar, Doughty are 100% locks. So, 5 players.

In order of likelihood for your other 3 bolds, I'd go: Point, Marner, Marchand for the other 3. Point over Marner due to playoffs, Marner over Marchand for much more consistent prime. Good chance all 3 make it, but not 100%.

Stone is the only non-bolded that could potentially make it. I suppose anyonie could "theoreritcally" make it if they take off, but no one else is on track, nor close.
 
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