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Hockey 35s

The Greatest NHL Skaters to Wear Number 35
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Hall of Fame and Retired Number 35s

Our mission to preserve the history of pro hockey through the sweater uniform numbers players wear is to objectively come up with a list of the greatest players at each number based on their career performance. This look is based on facts and statistics gathered as of 1/1/2022.

Let us start our journey on identifying the greatest number 35s in NHL/WHL history by looking at the players that wore the number that are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.

  • Tony Esposito
  • Ken Holland

Our next bit of recognition is of the players who have had the number retired by clubs that they played for along with the date of the number being officially retired. For the number 35 there are a handful:

  • Tony Esposito    Chicago Blackhawks    November 20, 1988
  • Mike Richter    New York Rangers    February 4, 2004
  • Pekka Rinne    Nashville Predators    February 24, 2022

Greatest Sweater Number 35s in NHL WHL History

I am not going to lie, hockey is a tough sport to identify who the top players in history are. The modern statistics using Fenway and Corsi percentages are great but they only apply to players since 2008. The challenge is how do you group players from all positions on the ice throughout NHL and WHL history all together to find the best at a certain number? I am not sure there is any one way to do so correctly but here is our stab at it for this number using stats like; goals, assists, points, plus/minus, saves and bonus points for years wearing the sweater number and Hall of Fame. We also had to give Defensive line players a little boost based on their plus/minus stats. It is not perfect but here is our statistical call on the top 15 greatest NHL/WHL players wearing the number 35.

  1. Tomas Plekanec
  2. Mike McPhee
  3. Reed Larson
  4. Ron Duguay
  5. Lucien DeBlois
  6. Tony Esposito
  7. Ken Holland
  8. Greg Hawgood
  9. Roberto Romano
  10. Jim Carey
  11. Richard Kromm
  12. Scott Clemmensen
  13. Ty Conklin
  14. Alex Auld
  15. Wayne Stephenson

Stats and Figures of the Top 25

Here is a look at our stats, years played with the uniform number and calculations on the top 25 number 35 pro hockey players:

Credits

The picture in the banner above is from the Wikipedia Commons photo collection of the Public Domain of Tony Esposito in 1973 of the Chicago Blackhawks / NHL

Special thanks to Hockey-Reference.com and Stathead.com

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