Who really belongs in the Hall of Fame?
Every NHL player's case analyzed
Festisov is perhaps the greatest Russian defender of all time. (The GRDOAT?) But his NHL career was past his prime.
Does he belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?
Listen to us discuss his case here:
Continue reading “Does Viacheslav Fetisov Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”One of the Russian Five, Larionov has had team success wherever he’s gone. But his individual success only ever occurred outside of the NHL. Does he belong?
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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?”Pavel Bure was a dominant goal-scorer in both the NHL’s highest scoring era and one of its lower scoring.
In this episode we talk about Bure, his stats, and why he wasn’t inducted immediately despite being one of the most dominant scorers in the history of the sport.
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Here are Bure’s stats:
Continue reading “Does Pavel Bure Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Obviously he does deserve to be in the Hall of Fame. The question is more, “where does he rank all time among great NHL defencemen?”
We discuss that here:
If you never watched Eric Desjardins play, you might think this is a stupid question (unless you have a lot of faith in the concept of Defensive Point Shares). But, for a time, Desjardins was one of the best defencemen in the NHL.
Did he do enough to warrant induction into the Hall of Fame? Listen to us talk about Eric Desjardins here:
Continue reading “Does Eric Desjardins Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Peter Forsberg combined elite passing with elite defensive ability and elite effort. His offensive rate statistics put him among the very best centres in the history of the NHL. Add to that his defense, and it feels as though he has a case to be considered one of the best centres to ever play the game.
Listen to us discuss Peter Forsberg:
Continue reading “Does Peter Forsberg Belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame?”Chris Pronger was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame even while under contract to an NHL team. What was the rush inducting while he was still technically active? Was he really that good.
In this episode we discuss Pronger’s career and his HOF case.
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Sergei Zubov was one of the best defencemen in the NHL for nearly two decades yet, when he recorded this episode, he was not yet in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Why did it take so long? Was it because he’s Russian? Was it because he played most of his career in Dallas and wasn’t watched enough?
In this episode, we marveled at how Zubov was not in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Of course, since then the Hall of Fame corrected their mistake. Still, it’s a fun episode.
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Continue reading “Does Sergei Zubov 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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