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What player has had the most Hall of Famers as teammates?

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This is purely trivial, but I was curious about what player in NHL history has had the most Hall of Fame teammates. Going through just a players NHL career (no international or WHA), and counting every Hall of Famer they ever played with, even if it was only one game, who would have the most?

I tried tallying up the totals for a few players who I assumed would have a high number. The highest I've been able to find was Frank Mahovlich with 29 (Kennedy, Duff, Armstrong, Pulford, Horton, Olmstead, Bower, Stanley, Kelly, Keon, Cheevers, Bathgate, Moore, Sawchuk, Pronovost, Howe, Delvecchio, Beliveau, Cournoyer, Lemaire, Richard, LaPointe, Savard, Dryden, Lafleur, Laperriere, Shutt, Robinson, Gainey).

Can anyone think of a player with more than Mahovlich's 29?
 
I was going to guess Mahovlich or Duff or Kelly, since they both spent significant time with two dynasties. It would almost certainly be one of them.

Since you've mentioned both their names, I assume you've done the homework on them. Which means Mahovlich is likely our answer.
 
Chris Chelios: (using probables for current players)
Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson, Bob Gainey, Patrick Roy, Steve Shutt, Michel Goulet, Denis Savard, Paul Coffey, Steve Yzerman, Igor Larionov, Larry Murphy, Brett Hull, Luc Robitaille
probable: Ed Belfour, Dominik Hasek, Doug Gilmour, Sergei Fedorov, Brendan Shanahan, Nicklas Lidstrom
possible: Jeremy Roenick, Gary Suter, Pavel Datsyuk, Curtis Joseph, Chris Osgood (longshot), Henrik Zetterberg (longshot), Marian Hossa (longshot).

Man.. even if the longshots all make it, which is unlikely, Chelios tops out at 26.
 
Great thread idea ...

Jacques Plante

1 – Elmer Lach
2 – Maurice Richard
3 – Bert Olmstead
4 – Bernie Geoffrion
5 – Doug Harvey
6 – Tom Johnson
7 – Butch Bouchard
8 – Dickie Moore
9 – Jean Beliveau
10 – Henri Richard
11 – Jacques Laperriere
12 – Rod Gilbert
13 – Andy Bathgate
14 – Harry Howell
15 – Dick Duff
16 – Jean Ratelle
17 – Al Arbour
18 – Glenn Hall
19 – Norm Ullman
20 – Dave Keon
21 – George Armstrong
22 – Darryl Sittler
23 – Bernie Parent
24 – Phil Esposito
25 – Bobby Orr
26 – Johnny Bucyk

Terry Sawchuk

1 – Ted Lindsay
2 – Sid Abel
3 – Gordie Howe
4 – Red Kelly
5 – Harry Lumley
6 – Marcel Pronovost
7 – Alex Delvecchio
8 – Glenn Hall
9 – Allan Stanley
10 – Norm Ullman
11 – Al Arbour
12 – Bill Gadsby
13 – Frank Mahovlich
14 – Dave Keon
15 – Andy Bathgate
16 – Bob Pulford
17 – George Armstrong
18 – Tim Horton
19 – Dickie Moore
20 – Johnny Bower
21 – Jean Ratelle
22 – Rod Gilbert
23 – Brad Park
24 – Ed Giacomin
25 - Leo Boivin
26 - Fern Flaman

and the man who falls only one player short of Mahovlich ...

Dick Duff

1 – Ted Kennedy
2 – George Armstrong
3 – Tim Horton
4 – Harry Lumley
5 – Bob Pulford
6 – Frank Mahovlich
7 – Bert Olmstead
8 – Allan Stanley
9 – Johnny Bower
10 – Red Kelly
11 – Dave Keon
12 – Al Arbour
13 – Gerry Cheevers
14 – Rod Gilbert
15 – Harry Howell
16 – Jean Ratelle
17 – Doug Harvey
18 – Jacques Plante
19 – Henri Richard
20 – Jean Beliveau
21 – Jacques Laperriere
22 – Yvan Cournoyer
23 – Gump Worsley
24 – Serge Savard
25 – Jacques Lemaire
26 – Tony Esposito
27 – Guy Lapointe
28 – Gilbert Perreault
 
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If we're counting Al Arbour, then Mahovlich goes up to 30. But I always assumed Arbour was in the Hall as a builder and not for his playing career.

I'm thinking that it's possible that a non-star player would be most likely to have the most. There's lots of third-liners who have been traded a lot in their careers, and playing for several teams is the most likely way to accumulate a high number.
 
reckoning said:
If we're counting Al Arbour, then Mahovlich goes up to 30. But I always assumed Arbour was in the Hall as a builder and not for his playing career.

I'm thinking that it's possible that a non-star player would be most likely to have the most. There's lots of third-liners who have been traded a lot in their careers, and playing for several teams is the most likely way to accumulate a high number.
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True, maybe one of the guys who played for 4-6 teams in the Original 6 era would have the record.
 
Paul Coffey has 16-31 depending on how the future votes will go. I might have missed somebody aswell.

Already in:​
  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Jari Kurri
  3. Mark Messier
  4. Glenn Anderson
  5. Grant Fuhr
  6. Mario Lemieux
  7. Ron Francis
  8. Bryan Trottier
  9. Luc Robitaille
  10. Larry Robinson
  11. Larry Murphy
  12. Steve Yzerman
  13. Slava Fetisov
  14. Igor Larionov
  15. Dale Hawerchuk
  16. Brendan Shanahan

    Probable:
  17. Mark Recchi
  18. Jaromir Jagr
  19. Rob Blake
  20. Sergei Fedorov
  21. Niklas Lidstrom
  22. Eric Lindros
  23. Chris Chelios
  24. Doug Gilmour
  25. Joe Thornton

    Possible:
  26. Mark Howe
  27. Kevin Lowe
  28. Chris Osgood
  29. Mike Vernon
  30. Rod Brind'Amour
  31. Ron Hextall
 
Shanahan is not in yet...and him and Coffey were traded for each other, so they never did play together.

You missed Joe Mullen on your list, so Coffey's at 16 currently by my count.

Safe to say Jagr, Chelios, and Lidstrom are in, so that's 19. Gilmour and Thornton probably get in, and I'd put Fedorov and Blake as pretty good bets, so that ups it to 23.

But I doubt that 6 other of the possible/probable candidates will get in, so Coffey likely ends up a little short of 29. You can add Barrasso, Ciccarelli, LeClair, Moog, and Giguere (not absolutely certain that Giguere and Coffey were on the Hartford roster simultaneously) to the list off possibilities, but all are less (or substantially less) than a 50/50 chance to get in.
 
Claude Lemieux:

Already in or sure-things (IMO): 19
Lafleur
Robinson
Gainey
Shutt
Chelios
Roy
Shanahan
Stastny
Stevens
Niedermayer
Fetisov
Brodeur
Sakic
Forsberg
Roy
Kurri
Modano
Thornton
Blake

Possible: 7
Turgeon
Zubov
Roenick
Tkachuk
Fleury
Mogilny
Kasatonov

Longshot: 6
Elias
Carbonneau
Foote
Hatcher
Nicholls
Nabokov
 
Luc Robitaille:

In or sure things: 21
dionne
gretzky
robinson
blake
kurri
coffey
jagr
francis
murphy
mullen
messier
leetch
blake
shanny
fedorov
hull
yzerman
lidstrom
larionov
chelios
hasek

Possibles: 6
joseph
naslund
barrasso
richter
datsyuk
zetterberg
 
Larry Hillman

Larry Hillman played with 35 - 41 if you include all the benefit of the doubt players* and WHA.

Detroit
1.) Howe
2.) Delvecchio
3.) Kelly
4.) Lindsay
5.) M.Pronovost
6.) Sawchuk
7.) Hall
8.) Ullman
9.) Bucyk
10.) Arbour*

Boston
11.) Stanley
12.) Flaman
13.) Boivin
14.) Lumley


Toronto
15.) Mahovlich
16.) Olmstead
17.) Keon
18.) Duff
19.) Armstrong
20.) Pulford
21.) Horton
22.) Bower
23.) Cheevers*
24.) Bathgate
25.) Moore*

Montreal
26.) Cournoyer
27.) Beliveau
28.) Lemaire
29.) H.Richard
30.) Savard
31.) Lapointe*
32.) T. Esposito*
33.) Laperriere
34.) Worsley


Philadelphia
35.) Clarke
36.) Parent

Buffalo
37.) Perreault

Los Angeles
38.) Howell
39.) Billy Smith

WHA
40.) Bobby Hull
41.) Gerry Cheevers
 
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I was going to guess Larry Hillman after the Devilmademe's post.

Canadiens 1958 beat me to it.

That has to be the highest
 
With the large number of early era players inducted, I figured maybe a couple would approach the 29 mark, but certainly none come close to Hillman.

Cyclone Taylor played with 21 or 22 by my count. Newsy Lalonde despite his travels and long career, only 19. I've probably missed a couple somewhere along the way, and I didn't look for instances where ringers were picked up for playoff series'. I'd guess that Lester Patrick is probably near the 20-player mark as well, and perhaps some less notable players.
 
Sprague Cleghorn

Kyle McMahon said:
With the large number of early era players inducted, I figured maybe a couple would approach the 29 mark, but certainly none come close to Hillman.

Cyclone Taylor played with 21 or 22 by my count. Newsy Lalonde despite his travels and long career, only 19. I've probably missed a couple somewhere along the way, and I didn't look for instances where ringers were picked up for playoff series'. I'd guess that Lester Patrick is probably near the 20-player mark as well, and perhaps some less notable players.
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If you include pre NHL seasons Sprague Cleghorn might have the highest total since he moved around regularly and played on powerful Stanley Cup teams.
 
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Canadiens1958 said:
If you include pre NHL seasons Sprague Cleghorn might have the highest total since he moved around regularly and played on powerful Stanley Cup teams.
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Good call on Cleghorn, I count 27. The five he played with at the tail end in Boston put him over top. Surprisingly, he played with only seven in his pre-NHL days. His Wanderer team saw little turnover during his six seasons there.
 
steve141 said:
Paul Coffey has 16-31 depending on how the future votes will go. I might have missed somebody aswell.

Already in:​
  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Jari Kurri
  3. Mark Messier
  4. Glenn Anderson
  5. Grant Fuhr
  6. Mario Lemieux
  7. Ron Francis
  8. Bryan Trottier
  9. Luc Robitaille
  10. Larry Robinson
  11. Larry Murphy
  12. Steve Yzerman
  13. Slava Fetisov
  14. Igor Larionov
  15. Dale Hawerchuk
  16. Brendan Shanahan

    Probable:
  17. Mark Recchi
  18. Jaromir Jagr
  19. Rob Blake
  20. Sergei Fedorov
  21. Niklas Lidstrom
  22. Eric Lindros
  23. Chris Chelios
  24. Doug Gilmour
  25. Joe Thornton

    Possible:
  26. Mark Howe
  27. Kevin Lowe
  28. Chris Osgood
  29. Mike Vernon
  30. Rod Brind'Amour
  31. Ron Hextall
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So he'll top out at 26, then. All those probables will make it, and I still think Mark Howe eventually will. the others won't.

Canadiens1958 said:
Larry Hillman played with 35 - 41 if you include all the benefit of the doubt players* and WHA.

Detroit
1.) Howe
2.) Delvecchio
3.) Kelly
4.) Lindsay
5.) M.Pronovost
6.) Sawchuk
7.) Hall
8.) Ullman
9.) Bucyk
10.) Arbour*

Boston
11.) Stanley
12.) Flaman
13.) Boivin
14.) Lumley


Toronto
15.) Mahovlich
16.) Olmstead
17.) Keon
18.) Duff
19.) Armstrong
20.) Pulford
21.) Horton
22.) Bower
23.) Cheevers*
24.) Bathgate
25.) Moore*

Montreal
26.) Cournoyer
27.) Beliveau
28.) Lemaire
29.) H.Richard
30.) Savard
31.) Lapointe*
32.) T. Esposito*
33.) Laperriere
34.) Worsley


Philadelphia
35.) Clarke
36.) Parent

Buffalo
37.) Perreault

Los Angeles
38.) Howell
39.) Billy Smith

WHA
40.) Bobby Hull
41.) Gerry Cheevers
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Good call. Arbour wouldn't count, but the rest would. It might go down by 2-3 if you knew enough about exactly which games he played in some seasons with guys like Cheevers and Moore, but he'd still have the most.
 
Jack Marshall won six Stanley Cups before anyone else had 5, and he did it with three teams and over a long period of time. In that time the rosters were 7-8 man and half the cup-winning teams tended to be HHOFers. So let's see how many he played with:

Dan Bain
Dickie Boon
Jimmy Gardner
Tommy Phillips
Ernie Johnson
Lester Patrick
Ernie Russell
Hod Stuart
Riley Hern
Joe Hall

Jack Laviolette
George McNamara
Didier Pitre
Harry Hyland
Gord Roberts
Art Ross
Sprague Cleghorn
Harry Cameron
Scotty Davidson
Frank Foyston

Frank Nighbor
Jack Walker
Hap Holmes

23... not bad.
 
The first guy that came to mind was Bert Olmstead, so...

- R. Conacher
- D. Bentley
- Mosienko
- Gadsby
- Brimsek
- Lumley
- M. Richard
- Lach
- Harvey
- Geoffrion
- B.Bouchard
- T. Johnson
- Moore
- Béliveau
- Plante
- H. Richard
- Duff
- Mahovlich
- Pulford
- Armstrong
- Horton
- Stanley
- Bower
- Kelly
- Keon
- Gerry Cheevers

... Only 25, though. Chances are, he's the guy who played with the most HHOF'ers if we go by teams played with (only 3).
 
I just went looking what wandering around teams could do in this category. So here we go for Mike Sillinger.

In:
Yzerman
Coffey
Messier
Larionov
MacInnis (no game with him but he was part of the roster, MacInnis missed majority of his last season due to injury)

Retired and eligible, some of these might go:
Bure
Howe
Ciccarelli
Mogilny
Vernon

Active or recently retired (in order Sillinger played with them):
Fedorov
Lidström
Kariya
Selänne
Näslund
LeClair
Lindros
Lecavalier
Luongo
Alfredsson
Hossa
Yashin
Nash
Tkachuk
Weight
Pronger

For Preds and Isles probably too early to judge.
 
Litzenberger had 33 (34 if you count Arbour).

Montreal
1.Olmstead
2.Beliveau
3.M.richard
4.Moore
5.Bouchard
6.Geoffrion
7.Harvey
8.Johnson
9.Plante

Chicago
10.harry watson
11.Mosienko
12.Stanley
13.Pilote
14.Hall
15.Bobby Hull
16. Al arbour (?)
17.Mikita
18,Lindsay

Detroit
19.Delvecchio
20.Howe
21.Ullman
22.Gadsby
23.Pronovost
24.Sawchuk

Toronto
25.Mahovlich
26.Kelly
27.Duff
28.Keon
29.Armstrong
30.Pulford
31.Horton
32.bower
33.Bathgate

Montreal
34.Lach
 
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Lidstrom is still active and i dont think Hasek is eligible yet.

Therefore they're probable. All of them will get in but as of now they arent.
 
The other end of the spectrum. Is there anyone in the hall of fame that never played with another hall of famer?
 
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