Who really belongs in the Hall of Fame?
Every NHL player's case analyzed
Shorty Green is in the Hall of Fame for a very specific thing, for being one of the leaders of the first ever NHL players strike.
But he’s in the Hall as a player, so how does his career stack up?
In this episode we discuss his actual hockey career. (And, to be clear, we strongly believe he belongs in the Hall of Fame for what he did off the ice.)
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It might seem like a silly question. However, as if this writing, Jere Lehtinen is the only eligible player with at least three Selke trophies not in the Hall of Fame. (If Datsyuk doesn’t get in once he’s eligible, there will be two.)
In this episode we discuss Lehtinen’s case in light of Guy Carbonneau’s induction in 2019.
Listen to us talk about Jere Lehtinen here:
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Aside from Marcel Dionne and Luke Robitaille, perhaps nobody is identified is identified with the pre-Gretzky Los Angeles Kings as King lifer Dave Taylor.
Despite never playing a full season, Taylor put up impressive numbers throughout his career, much of it spent on the first line of the kings.
But are his stats enough to get him in the Hall? We discuss his case in our latest episode:
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Brett Hull is one of the greatest goal scorers in NHL history but he is often accused of being so one-dimensional that he shouldn’t be considered a great player.
In this episode, we discuss his case and whether or not he’s as one-dimensional as many often claim.
Listen here:
Stats:
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The “Little Ball of Hate” scored 500 goals and racked up nearly 3,000 penalty minutes. But otherwise, he doesn’t have much of a case to join the Hall of Fame, it would seem. So why did we talk about him?
Well, find out by listening to this episode:
Stats:
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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?”Infamously, Dino Ciccarelli was the sole NHL player inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2010. Why was he deserving of a year to himself? What makes him so special? Or did the HOF make a mistake?
Listen to us talk about Ciccarelli’s case here:
Ciccarelli’s stats:
Continue reading “Does Dino Ciccarelli Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Who is the only eligible NHL player to be in the Top 10 in Goals Per Game but not in the Hall of Fame? Why it’s Tim Kerr, who is 10th All Time in GPG and, yes, not in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
How is it that one of the best goal scorers in the history of the NHL is no the the Hall of Fame? We talk about that, and Kerr’s overall case in general, in this episode.
Listen here:
Tim Kerr’s stats:
Continue reading “Does Tim Kerr Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Alex Mogilny had one of the best goal-scoring seasons in the history of the NHL and one other pretty dominant season. But the knock on him was his consistency, as he had very mediocre years in between his good years.
Mogilny is also notable for being one of the last USSR players to defect to the States, and having never played internationally for Russia once he did so.
In this episode, we discuss his convoluted case for induction:
Here are his stats:
Continue reading “Does Alexander Mogilny Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Odie Cleghorn’s brother is a famous Hall of Fame hockey player. Was Odie also deserving?
In this episode, we discuss whether or not Odie Cleghorn has a comparable case to some other NHA/1920s players who were questionably inducted.
Odie’s stats are as follows:
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