The fact that Babcock continued to sit Modano so he didn't get to 1500 should have been a crime. Man I really dislike that man.

The best comparison/example of Lemieux's greatness is this; Steve Yzerman, unquestionably a Legend of the game, has exactly 32 more career points than Lemieux (2 goals, 30 assists) however Yzerman also has 599 more career games played. That's a little more than 7 Seasons worth!! This just illustrates how insanely, RIDICULOUSLY DOMINANT Mario Lemieux really was. I rest my case.

I met Hawerchuck in 92 at a golf resort in Palm Beach I worked at. Big guy. Playing golf with his 5 or 6 year old kid. He told me his name and I said “there’s a great hockey player with that name” He smiled. He knew I knew who he was but that I was doing it discreetly. Seemed like a sincerely nice guy

Lemieux will always be the biggest "what if he hadn't gotten injured" player ever. True Legend.

Lemieux was an absolute beast

Sundin put up a lot of points for the Leafs, and he didn't always have the best players around him for support. He was really good.

Wendell Clark may not be considered a superstar, but there is no denying his leadership qualities, and what the meant to Toronto. This is coming from a die hard Canucks fan.

Lemieux also helped to win the Canada Cup against the USSR in 1987

The last clip of Turgeon he is making his HoF speech. Worth at least a mention.

There many Habs’ fans who were upset when they drafted Wickenheiser over Savard And in retrospect, they were correct

What Lemeuix did while what he was going through is amazing. Yeah Gretzky is the greatest, but Lemeuix is the best. Imagine what Lemeuix would have done had he been healthy. We very likely would be calling Gretzky number 2 all time

Wow. Never knew Murphy ended up like that. Very sad.

I was at the ‘81 Billings Bighorns rookie camp as 15 year old. Gord Kluzak came out for a couple on ice sessions. He had just been drafted. That was one intimidating dude! He was so much better than anyone else on the ice. Too bad he had the injuries

Lawton went before Pat LaFontaine AND STEVE YZERMAN??!!?? That must’ve hurt.

I remember the early 1990's when Dale Hawerchuk played on the Buffalo Sabres "chuck" line. Dale Hawerchuk, Dave Andreychuk, and Randy Wood(chuk).

4:06 Hawechuk to the Sabres, Jets receive Phil Housely, Scott Arneil and Jeff Parker. Sabres then picked Brad May at 14 while the Jets took Keith Tkachuk at 19th overall. RIP Hawerchuk

Best player from evrey draft year in retro perspective (regardless of pick order) 1989 - Nicklas Lidstrom (Detroit Red Wings; 53rd overall) & Mats Sundin (Quebec Nordiques; 1st overall) 1988 - Teemu Selanne (Winnipeg Jets; 10th overall) 1987 - Joe Sakic (Quebec Nordiques; 15th overall) 1986 - Brian Leetch (New York Rangers; 9th overall) 1985 - Joe Nieuwendyk (Calgary Flames; 27th overall) 1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins; 1st overall) & Patrick Roy (Montreal Canadiens; 51th overall) 1983 - Steve Yzerman (Detroit Red Wings; 4th overall) & Dominik Hasek (Chicago Blackhawks; 199th overall) 1982 - Doug Gilmour (St. Lous Blues; 134th overall) 1981 - Al MacInnis (Calgary Flames; 16th overall) 1980 - Paul Coffey (Edmonton Oilers; 6th overall)

Its amazing the Blues did not win the Stanley Cup back to back in the mid 90's. What a team of All Stars they had.

1986 was good luck for the Leafs. They selected Vinny Damphousse with the no. 6 pick, clearly the best pick in the top 6 that year.

Clark scoring 46 goals in 64 games is superstar level. He was an impact player.

Very well done. Video and factual descriptions. Congrats.!

Hawerchuk did well, considering that he was the star for the Jets and all checking lines were against him and he had no help. Under-rated. Wendal was originally a defenceman, and should have stayed such. He was injury prone, but a legend in Toronto. Sundin was a born right-winger. Mis-used in Toronto as a Center, when he was a Mahovlich type winger. Won the Gold medal with Sweden and took the MVP in the Olympics in 2006...as a winger. A legend, and would have been better still if he was not underused by Pat Quinn.

Islanders have been rebuilding ever since 1985. So many quality players have passed through and none of the owners were serious about putting together a competitive team

As a Canadian and one who has been homeless for the first winter of Covid, I can say with confidence that Murphy wishes he was still homeless in Costa Rica. Canadian winters are the worst.

RiP Dale Hawerchuk, an all time great....

Mario saved the Penguins as owner when he threatened to move the team to Kansas City and Betman, not wanting the team to move, arranged for Pittsburgh to get a generational player with the 1st overall pick in a draft with no order due to the work stoppage. Greasy.

The '96-'97 Flyers loved them some aging superstars. They had Paul Coffey, Howerchuck, Joel Otto, & Kjel Samuelsson. No wonder they ran out of gas in the finals.

Great list and video content as always mate.

This was a good video!

Never understood team retiring players number when they ended up trading the player to another team… id be pissed instead of being honored.

Imagine Savard, Hawerchuk, Lemieux and Sakic with Canadiens

Mario Lemieux was the best #1 overall draft pick ever although it took 4years to get to the playoffs

Always love seeing Vancouver Canucks legend Mats Sundin

Clark for Sundin was such a bad trade Quebec. It has to be one of the worst trades in NHL history.

Just think of what insane (insanier) stats Lemieux would have had if he had been fit his all career....

Love this series!

You forgot to mention Dale Hunter's hit on Turgeon

Clark may not have been a true superstar, but he was an incredible top notch mix - the rarest, in my opinion - of top scorer, and top fighter/tough guy. What will likely never be equalled again (and probably only ever matched by Rick Tocchet) were crazy GOALs / FIGHTS statslines like . . . rookie season 86/87: 66gp, 34 G, 23 fights (+ 10 games, 5 goals and 5 fights in the playoffs!!!), 86/87 season: 37 goals, 30 fights (!!!) including all the heavyweights (Probert etc) in 80 games . . .it's absolutely an insanely tough hard to imagine season, and obviously a reason why his career was shorter. But 30 goals, 30 fights in a season - you will never ever see that again folks.

Mario is clearly the best of the lot but Modano was a truly special player

Mats Sundin , won olympic gold 2006 and inducted in hall of fame 2012, why is that missing?

Hawerchuk was great!

Love your vids man! Some of the best hockey content just found your channel definitely subbing

Well done!

As a Bs fan it was tough to watch what happened to Kluzak. He was a first pairing defenseman that should’ve had a long and successful career. He went through hell with those knee injuries. It’s similar to what happened to Neely.

It also depends on the team and your line mates with the stats, I could have played on a line with Gretzky and popped in 30

What a great video thank you I love hockey I played a little bit of hockey in my youth but that was very informative thank you

Lemieux was a god damn beast.

Buffalo trading first round high scoring centres is a staple of that club

1983 was a great year for rookie cards.

I don't care how many records Gretzky has, Lemiux was the greatest player ever.

Lemieux was incredible

If the Pens win that game in 1990 and make the playoffs, good chance that we don’t get Jagr… and the rest is history. Also small chance none of the other teams get him as he was saying that he was gonna stay in Europe.

Wendel Clark was my favourite

“Joe Murphy” 😢 That sucks! I know he did some stupid things, but we’re human, we all mess up. I wish him the best and hopefully he finds a way out of the rut that he has been in & I really hope better times are in your near future ❤

Hawerchuk was a beauty

Excellent video. But somebody needs to tell this narrator that the 1983 first pick's name in Brian LawTon, not Brian LawDon. Also, how can the narrator not realize that for Detroit, the second syllable in emphasized/stressed, not the first.

Hawerchuk got his 1,000th point on my 1st birthday as a Sabre, and I’m from Buffalo!

In an Elston cartoon a Chicago player with Hudson on his helmet was shown a set of golf clubs, and his reaction was "I've been traded to the Oilers!" So I'm assuming he was traded for Joe Murphy if the timeline adds up, as the cartoon was drawn during the 1992-93 season.

A trip down memory lane.

Pittsburgh does will with their #1's.

select doug wickenheiser instead of denis savard, a local montrealer

GREAT video!!! Can someone tell me why Pierre Turgeon is not in the Hall of Fame? Come on!!!

They might as well be the Pittsburgh Lemeiux's

You should ask what Dale Hunter thinks of Pierre Turgeon and vice versa :D

Clark played for a Leafs side similar to the current team, they didnt give a shit. So he did everything, and his body suffered for it. If Clark's back had stayed healthy, he would have been one of the best.

bro put a mikhail grabovski clip in during the sundin segment

I can’t believe you didn’t mention Sundin’s stellar comeback with the Canucks! /s

11:43 my Big Brother & I were two of those 7,000 fans that turned up @/t civic arena before #66. I was only 11 yrs old. Just a Kid who welcomed #66 Le Magnifique like he was the second coming of our savior

As a Blackhawks fan I'm glad Savard fell to them at #3

RIP Hawerchuk

Imagine losing a game 72-1 ...

14:43 the Philadelphia fans never ever cheered another teams player. No matter what sport the Philly team was playing. Once the Eagles were playing Those pesky Dallas Cowboys in the mid 1990's, and the loud mouthed #88 Michael Irwin got badly hurt on the field. They had to cut off the facemask on Irving's helmet (neck injury situation) & to buckle the guy down to the stretcher! As the medical staff were wheeling #88 of the field the Eagle Fans were clapping that he was injured! Philadelphia is a crazy town and for those meat heads to take a timeout and celebrate Mario's cancer comeback is awe inspiring to me! ❤❤❤

super mario is the grestest hockey player ever. gretzky needed goons to protect him but super mario didnt. special mention to rocket richard

2:59 When you pause the video here it says Dale Howard. Lol

You should fix your chapter marker: - Pierre Turgeon, not Pierre Turon - Mike Modano, not Mika Madano - Mats Sundin, not Matt Sundin - Wendel Clark, not Wendle Cark (This one in the video only) The others looks OK to me (Although apart from Lemieux, I do not know those other former 1st-pick of the 80s)

Mario supposedly broke guy lafleurs unbelievable records in junior pro hockey. Supposedly. Still? Though? Guy lafleur is still the only professional hockey player in history to have recorded 2 straight seasons of 100 goals or more in each season. And the only player to ever record two pro seasons of 100 goals or more, period. A few others accomplished it. I think pat lafontaine is one. But I can’t remember? Yet the interesting thing about Mario and guy is this. Despite Mario’s incredible final junior pro season? Guy is still the only player in history to be able to say he recorded 3 points a game in a pro league. Not even Mario can say that. As Mario ended up with 2.8 points a game scored on average . In his junior professional career. Now Considering what Mario accomplished his last junior pro season? That’s almost shocking. Lafleur still ended up ultimately with more points a game. Exactly 3 points a game recorded throughout his junior pro career. Including 130 goals in 62 games his last pro junior season. Lemieux got 133 in 68 games in Lemieuxs last junior season.’ That’s incredible. Though on the pace lafleur was on? In lafleurs last junior season? Lafleur clearly would have ended up with around 150 goals in the regular season. If lafleur had played 68 games. Like Lemieux. Which still blows Mario’s 133 goal junior pro record away.

Sorry to hear about Joe Murphy. Why isn't he being provided with support?

wow .... Joe Murphy's story is sad indeed! Todays players would have way more support from the league and not end up homeless because of how he's was affected by multiple concussions playing a sport!

RIP Turgeon’s daughter

Joe's living on the streets in Kenora Ontario

Lemieux 🐐

WICK 14! 💙

It still bothers me that kids today think that Crosby is the greatest Penguin ever. That’s because they aren’t old enough to have watched Mario play.

lol, murphy his mouth got him to where he is today

153 penalty minutes was not WHOPPING in the 1980's.

High school player, no way that was a bad pick, college level better off, nhl needs to be helping Murphy or at least the union which took his dues

Wasn't Borje captain?

153 PIMs in the 80s is not "whopping"

26:59 no goal

Lol.. he registered the car. Does he think people are stupid.

God loves u all

Wendel is God!

Who went homeless

66 saved pitt 87 saved pitt ? Saved pitt

Perhaps you should learn how to spelll Wendel

Dougie happy Gilmour was over rated.

I'm as big a Wayne booster as there is, but Wayne never faced the adversity that Mario faced and Wayne played on much better teams

The Number for Dishonesty =112 . Wickenheiser died on Jan 12 , 1/12 . 112

I don’t care what anyone says, Mario Lemieux is the greatest NHL player to ever lace them up! Fuck Wayne Gretzky, it’s Mario! His PPG when you take into account his limited games played, he easily breaks Wayne’s goal record for sure if he didn’t deal with all those injuries and cancer

How does mike have a 19 game assist streak but it only counts as a 8 point game streak lmfao lol ur math ain’t right buddy lmfao