Tribute Please Vote for the Top 5 Hockey Players listed

[Ben Grimm]

Please Vote for the Top 5 Hockey Players listed. This poll was based on polling of hockey historians. The Big 4 are almost unquestioned. These are the best of the rest.

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[Lion Hound]

Gretz, Howe, Lemieux or Orr?

 

[Ben Grimm]

Gretz, Howe, Lemieux or Orr?

@Lion Hound The Big 4 are almost unquestioned. These are the best of the rest.

 

[huerter]

I wouldnt trust this place to rank 5 current Rangers.

 

[Machinehead]

I hate goalies being on these things. Apples to oranges. I did my best.

I also think Ovechkin and McDavid should be involved if this is "best of the rest."

Maurice Richard is the Maradona of hockey. The mystique supersedes the actual quality of the player.

 

[Mac n Gs]

How are you going to post a list like this and leave Petr Prucha and Freddy Sjostrom off of it?

 

[Ben Grimm]

... I also think Ovechkin and McDavid should be involved if this is "best of the rest." Maurice Richard is the Maradona of hockey. The mystique supersedes the actual quality of the player.

Someday I'll do a future poll with them and Jagr. The HoH forum voted The Rocket 9th all-time.

 

[Machinehead]

Someday I'll do a future poll with them and Jagr. The HoH forum voted The Rocket 9th all-time.

*AHEM*

That's way too high.

*COUGH*

What?

 

[Ben Grimm]

*AHEM* That's way too high. *COUGH* What?

I just made the votes private so you and I won't be the only 2 voters. The purpose of this is NOT to judge anyone.

 

[bigdog16]

Crosby is really the only slam dunk on this list. Gretzky, Lemieux, Orr, Howe are the top 4. Crosby is somewhere between 5-7 and there isn't much argument there.

 

[cwede]

Not sure what you're after with these posts, but the lists are wildly incomplete and subjective

Maybe do them in 2 parts, instead of assuming you know best

Ask US to suggest who should be on lists like best alltime NY players, or hockey players.

Compile those, then offer a list of ~20+ for us to choose from

These are too arbitrary to enjoy or appreciate, the omissions are so distracting

 

[BleedBlueNYR]

Crosby is the definition of a pure winner. Let's face it, if he doesn't get hurt in the playoffs last year we probably lose that series. If I'm down a goal or tied late in a playoff game I want Crosby on the ice.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Ovechkin is way better than Crosby

 

[Ben Grimm]

This poll was based on polling of hockey historians. Sorry if not everyone is familiar with all the players.

 

[will1066]

I just made the votes private so you and I won't be the only 2 voters. The purpose of this is NOT to judge anyone.

The whole point of HFBoards is to judge someone by their posts.

 

[Ben Grimm]

The whole point of HFBoards is to judge someone by their posts.

Sorry I didn't know that. In that case cwede is very happy in his personal life.

 

[Lion Hound]

I'd put Richard at #5. I think Beliveau is worthy, he won 10 Cups. But...Does he have the same legendary status as the Rocket? Richard was the best goal scorer of his time. He won 8 Stanley Cups! He was as fierce as Gordie Howe and he is maybe one of the most talked about Athletes North of the border all time.

 

[Ben Grimm]

... I also think Ovechkin and McDavid should be involved if this is "best of the rest." ...

Good post ^ above by @Lion Hound . Here you go @Machinehead and everyone else. Please Vote for the Top 5 Hockey Players Part II

 

[nyr2k2]

I hate Alexander Ovechkin and have basically forever, but he has to be on there. The best pure goal scorer ever to play, for my money.

 

[haohmaru]

Goalies should be their own thing. You can't compare Patrick Roy to Ray Bourque. There's no context.

 

[TopShelfSnipes]

Ovechkin > Crosby.

Seriously threatening the all time goal scoring record that was though untouchable and rarely misses a game. Was everything Lindros was billed as a player without being a douche (Lindros used to give out cheap shots constantly), and without being a head-down concussion waiting to happen. Hits, scores, passes, had the highest single season goal total in the last 30 years.

Crosby is darn good and always seems to find a way, but Ovechkin can beat you five ways, and while he's lost a step somehow his production is as solid as it ever was.