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After his death, the Canadiens retired his jersey number, the first time the team had done so for any player. When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the original nine inductees. In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century, and in 2017 the NHL included him on ...
Wayne Gretzky's #99 was retired league-wide in 2000 [1]. This is a complete list of numbers retired by the National Hockey League (NHL).A retired number is a jersey number that is taken out of circulation by a team as a way of honouring a former member of that team who wore that number; after the number's retirement, members of that team are not permitted to wear the number on their jerseys ...
Of the players on the list, 39 are centremen, 21 are defencemen, 15 are goaltenders, 15 are right wingers and 10 are left wingers. [3] There are 21 players who started their NHL career in the decade of the 1980s, and 22 who last played in the NHL during the decade of the 2000s, the most by decade for each category.
Nicknamed "the Great One", [1] he has been called the greatest ice hockey player ever by the NHL [2] based on surveys of hockey writers, ex-players, general managers and coaches. [3] Gretzky is the leading career goal scorer, assist producer and point scorer in NHL history, [4] and has more career assists than any other player has total points ...
This is a list of players who played at least one game for the Hartford Whalers (1979–80 to 1996–97) of the National Hockey League (NHL). For a list of players who played for the Whalers in the World Hockey Association , see List of New England Whalers players .
In 1998, he was ranked number 21 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. In 1972, NBC paid the NHL for the rights to broadcast games on national TV in the U.S. Lindsay was hired to do the color analysis, along with Tim Ryan , who did the play-by-play.
Ranked number 82 on The Hockey News' list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players in 1998. Jersey number 10 retired on November 10, 1991; On October 16, 2008, The Red Wings unveiled a commemorative statue for him by artist Omri R. Amrany. Named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players" in history in January 2017. [7]
Glenn Henry Hall (born October 3, 1931) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender.During his National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Black Hawks, and St. Louis Blues, Hall seldom missed a game and was a consistent performer, winning the Vezina Trophy, which at the time was awarded to the goaltender on the team allowing the fewest goals against (a ...