Howie Meeker's Greatest Hockey Legends

That's right! Joe's off freezing his ass off camping at Wells Gray Provincial Park. You see, Joe's only non-hockey related interest in life is chasing squirrels waterfalls.

A few weeks ago Joe posted his greatest 36 players of all time. I saw the list and said to myself, Stop it there, back it up!

No, I wasn't referring my handy telestrator. I was referring my book from 1999, Stop it there, back it up!: 50 years of hockey with Howie Meeker.

In that book, I made my own list of the greatest hockey players. Golly gee, I've been in hockey for longer than Joe's been alive. He's a nice kid and all, but I've played against Rocket Richard and Gordie Howe and I savored Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky. Heck, I even taught many of the big names when they were kids at my hockey school. Names like Mickey Redmond!

So I know a thing or two about hockey, or my name isn't Howie Meeker! So here's my list of the greatest players of all time:

1. Wayne Gretzky	26. Bill Durnan
2. Bobby Orr	27. Bobby Clarke
3. Mario Lemieux	28. Frank Mahovlich
4. Gordie Howe	29. Dickie Moore
5. Guy Lafleur	30. Larry Robinson
6. Jean Beliveau	31. Eric Lindros
7. Bobby Hull	32. King Clancy
8. Doug Harvey	33. Bryan Trottier
9. Terry Sawchuk	34. Marcel Dionne
10. Mark Messier	35. Charlie Conacher
11. Jacques Plante	36. Elmer Lach
12. Mike Bossy	37. Glenn Hall
13. Stan Mikita	38. Peter Stastny
14. Eddie Shore	39. Steve Yzerman
15. Maurice Richard	40. Syl Apps
16. Ken Dryden	41. Jari Kurri
17. Ray Bourque	42. Gilbert Perreault
18. Harvey Jackson	43. Howie Morenz
19. Chris Chelios	44. Patrick Roy
20. Jaromir Jagr	45. Milt Schmidt
21. Turk Broda	46. Paul Coffey
22. Ted Lindsay	47. Denis Potvin
23. Phil Esposito	48. Michel Goulet
24. Ted Kennedy	49. Dit Clapper
25. Henri Richard	50. Nels Stewart

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