Who really belongs in the Hall of Fame?
Every NHL player's case analyzed
Flames fans will tell you Fleury belongs in the Hall of Fame. How do the rest of us feel? And what do we make of Fleury’s infamous substance abuse issues – do they disqualify him?
Listen to us talk about Theo Fleury’s case for the Hall of Fame here:
Fleury’s stats:
Continue reading “Does Theo Fleury Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”A friend of ours used to claim that Doug Gilmour didn’t belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame because he had “one good year.” This friend used to compare Gilmour’s stats to Kirk Muller’s, apparently because he didn’t know he could look them up on the internet.
Gilmour was only rarely a star offensively but was one of the elite defensive forwards of his era, receiving numerous Selke nominations. In this episode, we discuss whether he should have been inducted and where he ranks among the great players of his era.
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Joe Nieuwendyk as an elite goal-scoring centre who transitioned into one of the great two-way forwards of his era. But did he really deserve his Conny Smythe Trophy? If he didn’t, what does that do to his Hall of Fame case?
Listen to us talk about Nieuwendyk here:
Warning! This episode contains an extremely hot take about Nieuwendyk’s Conn Smythe.
Continue reading “Does Joe Nieuwendyk Belong in the Hockey of Fame?”Gary Suter is one of the top offensive defencemen in the history of the NHL.
However, many of the defenders above Suter on the points list played at exactly the same time so, in context, his impressive offensive numbers don’t look so impressive.
We talk about Suter’s case here:
Continue reading “Does Gary Suter Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Herb Gardiner may have been one of the premier defencemen of his era, and was awarded the Hart Trophy as a result.
But how good was he really? Can we even know? How do we evaluate defencemen from the 1920s who didn’t score a lot? Can we trust Hart trophy wins from the past when we know they sometimes awarded them for controversial reasons?
Listen to us talk about Herb Gardiner here:
Continue reading “Does Herb Gardiner Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Martin St. Louis will be formally inducted into the Hall of Fame in October. Yet there are people who strongly believe he either doesn’t belong or that he should have “wait.” (Why someone should have to wait, we don’t know.)
In our latest episode, we talk about how open and shut St. Louis’ Hall of Fame inclusion case truly is even though one of us doesn’t personally like the guy for no particular reason.
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Continue reading “Does Martin St Louis Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Phil Housley has some of the most impressive career offensive totals of any NHL defenceman, especially an American.
He is also -53 for his career.
Should the Hall of Fame inducted a player who appears, on first glance, to have not been very good in his own end?
We discuss in our latest episode. Listen here:
Continue reading “Does Phil Housley Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Sergei Makarov was a star in the USSR for a decade before playing in the NHL. In fact, he might have been the best hockey player in the world not in the NHL for much of the 1980s.
But given how much the Hockey Hall of Fame focuses on NHL experience, did he deserve to be inducted?
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Continue reading “Does Sergei Makarov belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Kent Nilsson has the highest APG and PPG of any eligible NHL player not yet in the Hockey Hall of Fame, he is the only eligible player in the Top 10 in APG and PPG not in the Hall.
Why is a player with Top 10 career rate stats not in the Hall of Fame? Does it have to do with how he left the NHL? Does it have to do with his games played and inflated ’80s stats?
Listen to us discuss Kent Nilsson’s Hockey Hall of Fame case:
Continue reading “Does Kent Nilsson Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Though he’s technically still active, we decided there was no way he was going to improve his case if he ever did manage to make an NHL comeback, so we decided to talk about Jarome Iginla’s Hall of Fame case.
You can listen to the episode here:
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