Who really belongs in the Hall of Fame?
Every NHL player's case analyzed
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.
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Continue reading “Does Jarome Iginla Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”In this episode of The Back Check, we debate whether or not Jaromir Jagr is one of the greatest Right Wings in the history of the NHL.
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