Who is the greatest hockey player that ever lived?

Answer 1

Wayne Gretzky.

Answer 2

1920's - Newsy Lalond and Joe Malone
1940's- Maurice "the Rocket" Richard
1950's- Gordie Howe and Jacques Plante
1960's- Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita of the Black hawks owned the 60's as players but as a team only won 1 Stanley cup.
1970's- you had 3 really great players in Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito and Guy Lafleur.
1980's- many great players Wayne Gretzky, Mike Bossy, Mario Lemieux and Patrick Roy.
1990's- you still had Gretzky that still put up the points in the early half same as Mario Lemieux, but the 2 players that really showed they we're the best of the 90's are Jaromir Jagr and Niklas Lidstrom and also Dominic Hasek was on top.
2000's- you still have Jagr and Lidstrom and the newer generation in Sidney Crosby and Alexandre Ovechkin.

i named them all cause they were all great players at their time and you cant compare players cause there was different rules and you can take Wayne Gretzky and put him in Maurice Richard times and Gretzky would off gotten killed.

Answer 3

Mario Lemieux.

Plus Paul Coffey owns all the offensive defensemen records so how could you call Orr better than Coffey??!! Think about it.

Mario was best on pure talent alone. Gretzky had everything handed to him on a silver platter.

But all this soon will not matter as Crosby will be better than both of them!!! And then Malkin and Stall will kick *** too.

Penguins rule

Answer 4

Mario was a better role model then Gretzky. Was at least as good of a player. Short of the injuries and the team he was on he could have taken the records. The first time he retired he had a 2 Points Per Game Avg. The highest in the NHL history. As to Buisness Mario brought the Penguins out of Bankruptcy when he first went to the team. When he retired and their bad deals had them back in bankruptcy court he bought the team to save them. He brough intrest in hockey to Pittsburgh. When he retired he had left the team in a Championship postion. When he bought the team he had the unfortunate postion of having to dismantle that team in a fire sale because the city couldn't afford them and he wanted to keep the team from falling apart more then anything. Now Jagr doesn't count with that fire sale because he was traded because he wanted out of Pittsburgh so that he could be out of Mario's shadow in that city. I question how much Wayne was running the team as a buisness and how much he was there because his name and money would help the team.

Answer 5

Gordie Howe. He played most of his career in the old 6 team league. If he was a young man in the later, expanded league he would have piled up statistics that outpaced Gretzky's. As it ws, he played a rough sport up to the advanced age of 52, long after most other players are retired, and he was still an effective and productive player. He could still have played at 53!

Answer 6

Wayne Gretzky. He precluded other superstars of their respective games (i.e. Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods) and brought something to hockey that it had never seen before and will never see again. Not only was he a superstar, he was a positive role model, a businessman, a philanthropist and so much more.

Answer 7

Bobby Orr

Answer 8

There have been many, namely Gretzky, Hull, Howe, but i have to vote for Bobby Orr. He made defensive play "offensve" by leading the league in scoring one year (total points). That is unheard of.

Answer 9

Mario Lemieux

Answer 10

Bobby Orr! The best player, and he wasn't so bad to look at in the old days...