Last Updated on 21 March 2025

The following list is a snapshot of society’s current opinions of the 400 best hockey players ever. I averaged 22 different ranked lists of “best hockey players of all time” to get this definitive compilation.  See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including the full spreadsheet and links to all 22 lists that were averaged.

  1. Wayne Gretzky
  2. Gordie Howe
  3. Bobby Orr
  4. Mario Lemieux
  5. Maurice Richard
  6. Jaromir Jagr
  7. Mark Messier
  8. Jean Beliveau
  9. Alex Ovechkin
  10. Sidney Crosby
  11. Ray Bourque
  12. Bobby Hull
  13. Guy Lafleur
  14. Patrick Roy
  15. Phil Esposito
  16. Nicklas Lidstrom
  17. Martin Brodeur
  18. Steve Yzerman
  19. Terry Sawchuk
  20. Mike Bossy
  21. Doug Harvey
  22. Paul Coffey
  23. Stan Mikita
  24. Joe Sakic
  25. Jacques Plante
  26. Marcel Dionne
  27. Dominik Hasek
  28. Denis Potvin
  29. Teemu Selanne
  30. Bryan Trottier
  31. Larry Robinson
  32. Brett Hull
  33. Ken Dryden
  34. Bobby Clarke
  35. Chris Chelios
  36. Eddie Shore
  37. Howie Morenz
  38. Ron Francis
  39. Jari Kurri
  40. Glenn Hall
  41. Frank Mahovlich
  42. Henri Richard
  43. Al MacInnis
  44. Peter Forsberg
  45. Ted Lindsay
  46. Gilbert Perreault
  47. Connor McDavid
  48. Tim Horton
  49. Red Kelly
  50. Scott Stevens
  51. Sergei Fedorov
  52. Patrick Kane
  53. Brad Park
  54. Brian Leetch
  55. Mats Sundin
  56. Johnny Bucyk
  57. Luc Robitaille
  58. Bernie Geoffrion
  59. Pavel Datsyuk
  60. Darryl Sittler
  61. Mike Modano
  62. Eric Lindros
  63. Peter Stastny
  64. Evgeni Malkin
  65. Tony Esposito
  66. Yvan Cournoyer
  67. Syl Apps
  68. Newsy Lalonde
  69. Jean Ratelle
  70. Alex Delvecchio
  71. Milt Schmidt
  72. Borje Salming
  73. Brendan Shanahan
  74. Mike Gartner
  75. Dickie Moore
  76. Grant Fuhr
  77. Adam Oates
  78. Chris Pronger
  79. Scott Niedermayer
  80. Joe Thornton
  81. Charlie Conacher
  82. Bernie Parent
  83. Max Bentley
  84. King Clancy
  85. Dave Keon
  86. Denis Savard
  87. Serge Savard
  88. Dale Hawerchuk
  89. Bill Durnan
  90. Sid Abel
  91. Pavel Bure
  92. Doug Gilmour
  93. Johnny Bower
  94. Turk Broda
  95. Joe Malone
  96. Dit Clapper
  97. Elmer Lach
  98. Ted Kennedy
  99. Jarome Iginla
  100. Andy Bathgate
  101. Steven Stamkos
  102. Pierre Pilote
  103. Billy Smith
  104. Jacques Lemaire
  105. Pat LaFontaine
  106. Joe Nieuwendyk
  107. Toe Blake
  108. Mark Recchi
  109. Lanny McDonald
  110. Norm Ullman
  111. Marian Hossa
  112. Mark Howe
  113. Bill Cook
  114. Bob Gainey
  115. Zdeno Chara
  116. Guy Lapointe
  117. Georges Vezina
  118. Glenn Anderson
  119. Valeri Kharlamov
  120. Vladislav Tretiak
  121. Sergei Makarov
  122. Nels Stewart
  123. Patrice Bergeron
  124. Dave Andreychuk
  125. Jonathan Toews
  126. Larry Murphy
  127. Clint Benedict
  128. Dino Ciccarelli
  129. Pierre Turgeon
  130. Duncan Keith
  131. Martin St. Louis
  132. Ed Belfour
  133. Brad McCrimmon
  134. Michel Goulet
  135. Frank Boucher
  136. Joe Pavelski
  137. George Hainsworth
  138. Steve Larmer
  139. Frank Nighbor
  140. Bill Barber
  141. Boris Mikhailov
  142. Henrik Lundqvist
  143. Frank Brimsek
  144. Brian Propp
  145. Earl Seibert
  146. Nikita Kucherov
  147. Jeremy Roenick
  148. Bill Cowley
  149. Cy Denneny
  150. Aurèle Joliat
  151. Sprague Cleghorn
  152. Phil Housley
  153. Charlie Gardiner
  154. Doug Bentley
  155. Dave Taylor
  156. Alexander Mogilny
  157. Nathan MacKinnon
  158. Steve Shutt
  159. Theoren Fleury
  160. Paul Kariya
  161. Anze Kopitar
  162. Viacheslav Fetisov
  163. Rod Gilbert
  164. Rod Langway
  165. Bill Gadsby
  166. Rod Brind’Amour
  167. Daniel Alfredsson
  168. Joe Mullen
  169. Keith Tkachuk
  170. Victor Hedman
  171. Guy Carbonneau
  172. Vladimir Konstantinov
  173. Gump Worsely
  174. Wendel Clark
  175. Erik Karlsson
  176. Gerry Cheevers
  177. Craig Ramsay
  178. Bill Hajt
  179. Dallas Smith
  180. Andre Dupont
  181. Jim Watson
  182. Cyclone Taylor
  183. Brad Marchand
  184. Ryan McDonagh
  185. Wayne Cashman
  186. Jim McKenny
  187. Kevin Lowe
  188. Miikka Kiprusoff
  189. Ken Daneyko
  190. Ken Hodge
  191. Jacques Laperriere
  192. John Bower
  193. Terry Harper
  194. Johnathan Toews
  195. Ryan Miller
  196. Clark Gillies
  197. Bernie Nicholls
  198. JC Tremblay
  199. Vincent Damphousse
  200. Patrick Marleau
  201. Jim Schoenfeld
  202. Busher Jackson
  203. Charlie Huddy
  204. Pete Mahovlich
  205. Gary Roberts
  206. Terry O’Reilly
  207. John Tonelli
  208. Ken Linseman
  209. Dave Poulin
  210. Bernie Federko
  211. John Bucyk
  212. Doug Risebrough
  213. Pierre Mondou
  214. Claude Giroux
  215. Petr Svoboda
  216. Cam Neely
  217. John Leclair
  218. Mike Ramsey
  219. John Tavares
  220. Marc-André Fleury
  221. Anatoli Firsov
  222. Busher Harvey Jackson
  223. Henrik Sedin
  224. Eric Desjardins
  225. Don Luce
  226. Ray Whitney
  227. Don Marcotte
  228. Eric Staal
  229. Alec Connell
  230. Carey Price
  231. Pat Verbeek
  232. Mattias Ekholm
  233. Daniel Sedin
  234. Babe Dye
  235. Bobby Smith
  236. Lorne Chabot
  237. Mario Tremblay
  238. Carl Brewer
  239. Henrik Zetterberg
  240. Doug Weight
  241. Nicklas Backstrom
  242. Chris Kunitz
  243. Alex Kovalev
  244. Rob Blake
  245. Walt Tkaczuk
  246. Patrik Elias
  247. Sweeney Schriner
  248. Brian Bellows
  249. Joe Primeau
  250. Lee Fogolin

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