Who was the second best hockey player of all time?
You posted him.
wayne gretzky
The guy you posted
The goat is pic related
>>67880089
Jagr
selänne
Gordie Howe is the GOAT. He was not protected by the league against hits.
All wrong, it was obviously Orr
Gretzky
Lemieux
Orr
me
>>67880089
This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask /sp/.
What are the other questions you can ask to immediately identify if someone actually knows they sport as well as they claim?
Lemieux > Gretzky is one of the easy ones. What else is there?
It's probably PK Subban 2bh
>>67882492
Malysz > Ahonen
HE FLIPS THE PUCK
TO BOBBY ORR
HE SHOOTS
HE SCORES
WICKED LITTLE CRITTA!!!
>>67882492
Nykänen>Malysz
>>67882501
This. Any other suggestion is racist.
>>67882492
lemieux very well may have had a higher potential than gretzky, but the lack of consistency (from injuries) is why he's below him. If you dont see the importance of being there game in, game out, getting 2+ points basically every game for the better part of 2 decades, you obviously dont know the sport as well as you claim. A guy only has to be 75% as good as a guy who's there 75% of the time to be equal to him, and gretzky was way closer than that (I think better, but its almost irrelevant because of how often lemieux was injured or had cancer).
With that being said I'd still say Lemieux was 2nd best, but I'll throw out a curve ball and toss hasek's name into the mix. What he was doing in the late 90s was nothing short of remarkable, like he dragged mediocre teams to stanley cups finals and olympic gold medal games basically single handedly. Chances were if you got more than 1 on him you'd win the game, but good fucking luck doing that
When will puckcucks get their own containment board?
>>67882492
Messi > Ronaldo
>>67880089
1) Gretzky
2a) Lemeiux
2b) Howe
3) Messier
>>67882803
When dirty gypsies get one
>>67882492
>>67882857
Is an example of a retard
bobby orr
>>67882803
when divegrass sissies get one.
>delusional Shitsburg fans actually think Mario "Glass Bones" Lemieux is better than The Great One
Gordie Howe Forever!
>>67880089
>thinking a skater can ever be the GOAT when they have less impact on a game then the goaltenders
The GOAT is Dryden.
>>67882492
i've literally never heard of Lemieux.
Gretzky is the greatest to ever play the game
>>67883590
Glass bones went through his last season recieving kemo therapy in between periods and still went out on the ice and made opponents look like chumps. If it were not for his forced retirement he would have surpassed Gretzky.
>>67880089
>>67882946
>messier
Try Orr, fagiola
Mario.
Lemieux is literally MUH POTENTIAL, the player. Greatness is based on what you did, not what you could've done.
>>67882492
Winners win. Losers don't.
It's that simple anon. Gretsky is GOAT.
Modano
i was pretty good
>>67880628
And now he's a walking vegetable
Since this thread is basically about Lemieux now, this is my favorite moment of his. Local media head Mark Madden told Lemieux the day before that if he could score off a faceoff, Mark would donate something like $5 thousand to Lemieux's charity. At 6 seconds in you can see Lemieux smiling at the press box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2baNMQ_9Ec
>>67882946
>messier
Orr and Trottier are better
GOALIE RANKINGS
0. Hasek in the 90's
1. Roy
2. Hasek over the course of his career
POWER GAP
900001. Fatso
90000001. Craig Cancer Anderson
>>67891160
The man is 88.
Super mario
>>67891363
Anderson isn't Finnish though
>>67880089
Consensus from literally everyone that knows anything about hockey is
Gretzky
Orr
Howe
Lemieux
Bobby Orr is literally the most overrated player ever in hockey, possibly among all sports.
Gordie Howe played in an era of literally whos and would still disappear in the playoffs.
It's pretty much Gretzky and Lemieux at the top and it's not even close after that.
>>67880089
Nicklas Lidstrom
>>67891584
Gretzky
Lemieux
Hasek
Lidstrom
The rest is a shitshow.
>>67880089
>>67886627
>Forsberg instead of Sakic
lel
>>67891160
>>67891369
Hell be fine
>>67880089
Lemieux was literally playing while getting chemo.
>>67880089
Gretzky
Lemieux
Orr
No acceptions
>>67886285
>I've never heard of lemieux
>I'm now going to tell you who is the best like I have some authority on the issue
Lemieux played with cancer, degenerative back disease, and didn't have babby Fuhr padding his stats
Even with all of that in his primeyes he was better than manlet Gretzky ever was
>>67880089
Fedor tyutin
1. Lemieux
2. Gretzky
3. Howe
4. Orr
5. Richard
>>67891301
>scoring this goal
Clear indication of how shitty the NHL used to be. The players back then couldn't even make the A in today's game.
>>67898368
This
>>67899540
>Richard
>Better than jagr
1. Gretsky
2. Ovie
>>67880089
Lemieux
But the only reason it's not pic related is because Lemieux spent his whole career hurt or having cancer.
>>67880089
Top 5
1. Me
2. Gretzky
3. Orr
4. Glover
5. Le Finnish meme man
>>67891301
NHL used to be so shit
>>67882492
Ronaldo > Messi
1. Gretzky
2. Lemieux
3. Orr
4. Crosby
5. Howe
6. Jagr
7. Yzerman
8. Sakic
9. Richard
10. Ovechkin
>>67880089
>>67891363
>36faggots
Stay mad
>>67880089
Joe Sakic
>>67901995
>Crosby at 4
>Ovechkin even listed
Federov was 10x the player Ovi is, guy could have been a Norris winning defenseman if he wanted to be.
>>67880089
PETER.
FORBERG.
>Gretzky unironically would not survive in his era
This makes hockey plebs mad.
>Bobby Orr was better than Gretzky.
Droppin truth.
>>67903318
>Forsberg
Muh spleen
>>67901995
>Crosby over Jagr
Crosby almost called it quits because of concussions not even 10 years into his career. Jagr was drafted when I was a little boy and he's still going strong (I'm 30 now).
>>67880121
supremely underrated post
>>67891363
>he doesn't rank Brodeur
top kek
1. Mario Lemieux
2. Sidney Crosby
3. Bill
239746907436. Wayne "My daughter passed around the locker room like stick tape" Gretzky.
>>67905401
>Crosby
>>67905253
Lundqvist > Brodeur
>>67907054
>Rags
>>67907054
yeah let me know when """"""king"""""""""" lundqvist gets a ring
Where do I start if I want to learn more about this beautiful sport, /sp/?
I was just recently introduced to it and it's probably the greatest thing I've ever watched.
>>67882590
This milkbag knows
>>67880617
U know it
Jari Kurri
>>67903318
>Forsberg
Go back to HFBoards
>>67909539
Read hockey books and magazines
Or just watch games and learn about the rules
>>67901995
>Crosby
>>67907054
>Lundshit
>>67909539
www.tsn.ca/nhl (News and scores)
www.capfriendly.com (Trades and signings)
www.oilersnation.com (Articles and autism)
>>67909539
It is the best sport. Watch the 2010 olympic gold medal game, Canada vs USA on youtube for an amazing introduction, sorry no links cuz data
Watch the highlight reels of
Alex Ovechkin
Mario Lemieux
Wayne Gretzky
Pavel Bure
Pavel Datsyuk
Dominik Hasek
Patrick Kane
Henrik and Daniel Sedin
Classic moments to watch
Yzerman ot goal vs St. Louis 96
Toronto 4-1 game 7 collapse vs Boston 2013
Burrows OT goal vs Chicago game 7 2011
Miracle on ice last 10 minutes
Summit Series 1972 last 10 minutes
>>67886627
The only correct answer. During his prime, he was better than Lemieux.
>>67926980
>Henrik and Daniel Sedin
Fuck off chink, there are 1000 better players you could have suggested than this garbage.
>>67880089
that guy with the hair
>>67926980
Also the next rising superstar, Connor Mcdavid is 19 years old, watch highlights of his junior career playing for the Erie Otters in the Ontario Hockey League, unreal stuff
>>67927434
Like Sakic and Forsberg
>>67927434
Haha. I knew someone was gonna say this. But they were on a whole other level of offensive zone puck control and dominated with one of the most unique styles ever. Their highlights are worth showing to a newcomer to show the variety of playing styles
But I won't deny I'm a nucks fan
>>67900251
>1. Me
Hello Heater!
>>67928071
>tfw you'll never see Sakic, Forsberg, and Roy compete for another Cup
hold me spee
>>67880089
Lemiux was better game for game gretsky just had a longer career
>>67892556
>implying he didnt shit his pants and go into a demented rage right after the photo was taken
>>67882529
Malysz was so fucking based
I used to watch him together with my dad
goodmemories.jpeg
Can't believe it's already 5 years since this man retired
>>67880089
Gretzky and Lemieux were 1a and 1b thqh. I refuse to consider anyone who played before the 80s (even then, most players and goalies for the better part of that decade were still absolute garbage) for the second spot. That leaves players from the 90s to now imo, so probably Lidstrom, Hasek, Roy or Jagr
>>67880089
Samir Hczkhlaim
Bp
Ruslan Fedotenko
>bulju :D
>>67928860
>tfw 2006-2007 Ottawa Senators
>>67880164
Cancerfag is a shit.
>>67886627
Yeah, he had a great 5 year career. lol
>>67926980
>Not suggesting the highlight reel of Evgeni Malkin
Come on man, even if you don't like him or you think he's overrated as a complete player, the man has given us some of the top highlights of the past decade in NHL hockey
Anyone who says Bobby Orr isn't the greatest player of all time literally has no idea what they're talking about.
He was both the greatest offensive power of his era and the greatest defensemen of his era. He fundamentally changed the way the game was played. He did all this while being an undersized, scrawny kid from the middle of buttfuck nowhere who grew up so poor he had to wear skates 3 sizes too big.
1. Gretzky
2. Yzerman
3. Modano
4. Howe
5. Lidstrom
>Implying
1. Gretzky
2. Orr
3. Lemeiux
4. Howe
>>67933410
He's my number two.
Orr
>8 consecutive Norris
>3 consecutive Harts
>2 Art Ross
>2 Conn Smythe
>2 cups
Gretzky
>8 consecutive Harts, 9 total
>7 consecutive Art Ross, 10 total
>3 Art Ross with just his assists
>2 Conn Smythe
>4 cups, dynasty
>captain
Orr also played in a weaker era, with massive expansion (the NHL added 12 teams during Orr's prime, tripling in size in 8 years) and a competing league (the WHA) diluting the talent pool.
>>67881522
This
>>67905253
I did rank him
Check 900001
>>67926980
decent list
I would add looking up championship DVDs on Youtube there are tons. Also I think those NHL 36 videos are pretty cool
