Who was the second best hockey player of all time?

Who was the second best hockey player of all time?

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You posted him.

wayne gretzky

The guy you posted

The goat is pic related

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

This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask Sup Forums.

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

Malysz > Ahonen

HE FLIPS THE PUCK
TO BOBBY ORR
HE SHOOTS
HE SCORES

WICKED LITTLE CRITTA!!!

Nykänen>Malysz

This. Any other suggestion is racist.

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?

Messi > Ronaldo

1) Gretzky
2a) Lemeiux
2b) Howe
3) Messier

When dirty gypsies get one

Is an example of a retard

bobby orr

when divegrass sissies get one.

>delusional Shitsburg fans actually think Mario "Glass Bones" Lemieux is better than The Great One

Gordie Howe Forever!

>thinking a skater can ever be the GOAT when they have less impact on a game then the goaltenders
The GOAT is Dryden.

i've literally never heard of Lemieux.

Gretzky is the greatest to ever play the game

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.

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>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.

Winners win. Losers don't.

It's that simple user. Gretsky is GOAT.

Modano

i was pretty good

Idiots

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.

youtube.com/watch?v=N2baNMQ_9Ec

>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

The man is 88.

Super mario

Anderson isn't Finnish though

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.

Nicklas Lidstrom

Gretzky
Lemieux
Hasek
Lidstrom

The rest is a shitshow.

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>Forsberg instead of Sakic
lel

Hell be fine

Lemieux was literally playing while getting chemo.

Gretzky
Lemieux
Orr

No acceptions

>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

Fedor tyutin

1. Lemieux
2. Gretzky
3. Howe
4. Orr
5. Richard

>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.

This

>Richard
>Better than jagr

1. Gretsky
2. Ovie

Lemieux

But the only reason it's not pic related is because Lemieux spent his whole career hurt or having cancer.

Top 5
1. Me
2. Gretzky
3. Orr
4. Glover
5. Le Finnish meme man

NHL used to be so shit

Ronaldo > Messi

1. Gretzky
2. Lemieux
3. Orr
4. Crosby
5. Howe
6. Jagr
7. Yzerman
8. Sakic
9. Richard
10. Ovechkin

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>36faggots

Stay mad

Joe Sakic

>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.

PETER.

FORBERG.

>Gretzky unironically would not survive in his era
This makes hockey plebs mad.

>Bobby Orr was better than Gretzky.

Droppin truth.

>Forsberg

Muh spleen

>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).

supremely underrated post

>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.

>Crosby

Lundqvist > Brodeur

>Rags

yeah let me know when """"""king"""""""""" lundqvist gets a ring

Where do I start if I want to learn more about this beautiful sport, Sup Forums?

I was just recently introduced to it and it's probably the greatest thing I've ever watched.

This milkbag knows

U know it

Jari Kurri

>Forsberg

Go back to HFBoards

Read hockey books and magazines

Or just watch games and learn about the rules

>Crosby

>Lundshit

www.tsn.ca/nhl (News and scores)

www.capfriendly.com (Trades and signings)

www.oilersnation.com (Articles and autism)

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

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The only correct answer. During his prime, he was better than Lemieux.

>Henrik and Daniel Sedin

Fuck off chink, there are 1000 better players you could have suggested than this garbage.

that guy with the hair

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

Like Sakic and Forsberg

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

>1. Me
Hello Heater!

>tfw you'll never see Sakic, Forsberg, and Roy compete for another Cup

hold me spee

Lemiux was better game for game gretsky just had a longer career