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The Hockey News "Top 50 Players of all time by franchise: Pittsburgh Penguins"




So I recently ordered this book from The Hockey News Magazine that covers the fifty greatest players in every NHL franchise's history. It's a really useful book if you're a hockey history nut and it's basically become a bit of a guide for me on NHL history. I've bought ranking books like these before and I normally like to rank the Penguins, Steelers, and Pirates that make these books on their respective SB nation sites. So I decided to rank the fifty Penguins that made the cut on here. Please recognize that this book is based on significance to the specific franchise and not just who was the better player or bigger name.

The book was released before last season so the Capitals have not yet won the cup (Ovi is still the number one ranked Capital anyway) and Vegas is not included as one of the franchises but as it pertains to the Penguins, everything is up to date.

All I'm doing here is listing the names but most of the players have a short bio next to their names that gets smaller as you go down the list. If you'd like to read about those players or check out what rankings were given for the other franchises, you can order the book here:

https://thehockeynews.store/collections/special-issues

1. Mario Lemieux

2. Sidney Crosby

3. Jaromir Jagr

4. Evgeni Malkin

5. Tom Barrasso

6. Kris Letang

7. Ron Francis

8. Marc-Andre Fleury

9. Kevin Stevens

10. Jean Pronovost

11. Syl Apps Jr.

12. Ron Stackhouse

13. Paul Coffey

14. Rick Kehoe

15. Mark Recchi

16. Larry Murphy

17. Randy Carlyle

18. Dave Burrows.

19. Chris Kunitz

20. Martin Straka

21. Brooks Orpik

22. Sergei Gonchar

23. Alexei Kovalev

24. Joe Mullen

25. Greg Malone

26. Ron Schock

27. Mike Bullard

28. Lowell McDonald

29. Bob Errey

30. Jordan Staal

31. Ulf Samuelsson

32. Rob Brown

33. John Cullen

34. Doug Bodger

35. Paul Martin

36. Dan Quinn

37. Pascal Dupuis

38. Denis Herron

39. Ken Wregget

40. Jim Johnson

41. Pierre Larouche

42. Doug Shedden

43. Matt Murray

44. Robert Lang

45. Troy Loney

46. Rob Scuderi

47. Rick Tocchet

48. Darius Kasparaitis

49. Phil Kessel

50. Petr Nedved

Debate away to your heart's content.

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