Every NHL Team's Mount Rushmore of the Quarter Century
Each NHL team has its share of players whose accomplishments stood out among their teammates. They might be scoring forwards, skilled defensemen or outstanding goaltenders.
Among them, a handful would be considered to be the very best. Their faces would be carved on their team's Mount Rushmore of their top-four players of all time.
For NHL teams with very long histories, it would be difficult to narrow the field to four players. For those with shorter histories, the list would be easier to choose from.
We've decided to narrow the focus down to within the past 25 years of NHL history, starting with the 2000-01 season. Those players are more familiar to today's fans based on overall performance, postseason success, and value to their respective clubs and potential standing as a fan favorite during that period.
Some of the players on this list may appear on more than one team's Mount Rushmore, as their careers were divided between multiple clubs. We've also included players who skated on relocated teams, such as the Atlanta Thrashers (now Winnipeg Jets) and Arizona Coyotes (now Utah Mammoth).
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Anaheim Ducks
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Ryan Getzlaf, Center
Corey Perry, Right Wing
Teemu Selänne, Right Wing
Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Goaltender
Getzlaf was the longest-serving captain in Ducks history (12 seasons). He's the franchise leader with 1,157 games played, 737 assists and 1,019 points. Perry won the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Maurice Richard Trophy in 2010-11. He sits second with 372 goals and third with 404 assists and 776 points.
A Hall of Famer, Selänne spent 15 of his 21 NHL seasons with the Ducks. He's their franchise leader with 457 goals and sits second with 531 assists and 988 points. Giguère is the franchise leader with 206 wins and 32 shutouts. In 2023, he won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
All four of these players had key roles in leading the Ducks to the Stanley Cup in 2007.
Boston Bruins
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Patrice Bergeron, Center
Zdeno Chára, Defense
David Pastrňák, Right Wing
Brad Marchand, Left Wing
Bergeron is a six-time winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy. He's third among the Bruins with 1,294 games played, 427 goals and 1,040 points. A Hall of Famer, Chára won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2008-09 and captained the Bruins for 14 seasons. They were both part of Boston's 2011 Stanley Cup victory.
Pastrňák is only the second Bruin to score at least 60 goals in a season. Winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy in 2019-20, he's fourth among NHL scorers with 391 points since his 2014-15 debut. Marchand also won the Stanley Cup with Boston in 2011, sitting fourth among all Bruins with 1,090 games played and 422 goals.
Buffalo Sabres
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Ryan Miller, Goaltender
Jason Pominville, Right Wing
Rasmus Dahlin, Defense
Thomas Vanek, Left Wing
Winner of the Vezina Trophy in 2009-10, Miller is the franchise goaltending leader with 540 games played and 284 wins. Pominville spent 11 of his 15 NHL seasons with the Sabres, sitting eighth among the franchise leaders with 733 games played, 304 assists and 521 points.
Dahlin is second in points all-time among Sabres defensemen (360) and ninth among the franchise leaders with 277 assists. Vanek played nine of his 14 NHL seasons in Buffalo, leading their scorers since 2000-01 with 254 goals and sitting second with 497 points.
Calgary Flames
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Jarome Iginla, Right Wing
Miikka Kiprusoff, Goaltender
Mark Giordano, Defense
Johnny Gaudreau, Left Wing
A Hall of Famer, Iginla leads the Flames with 1,219 games played, 525 goals and 1,095 points. He won the Maurice Richard Trophy twice and the Art Ross Trophy in 2001-02. Kiprusoff won the Vezina Trophy in 2005-06 and is the goaltending franchise leader in several categories, including wins (305) and shutouts (41).
Winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2018-19, Giordano is third all-time in games played (949), sixth in assists (366) and 10th in points with 509. Gaudreau spent nine seasons with the Flames, winning the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 2016-17. He's fifth all-time with 399 assists and 609 points.
Carolina Hurricanes
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Rod Brind'Amour, Center
Eric Staal, Center
Jaccob Slavin, Defense
Sebastian Aho, Center
A two-time winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy, Brind'Amour is fourth among the Hurricanes with 299 assists and fifth with 473 points, captaining them to the Stanley Cup in 2005-06. Staal was part of that 2006 Cup run and sits second among their franchise leaders with 322 goals, 453 assists and 775 points.
Slavin sits fifth among Hurricanes skaters with 745 games played and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 2020-21 and 2023-24. Aho is third all-time on the franchise list with 283 goals and 348 assists for 631 points.
Chicago Blackhawks
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Patrick Kane, Right Wing
Jonathan Toews, Center
Duncan Keith, Defense
Brent Seabrook, Defense
Kane won the Calder Memorial Trophy (2007-08), Conn Smythe Trophy (2012-13) and the Art Ross Trophy, as well as the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award in 2015-16. Toews took home the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2009-10 and the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2012-13.
A Hall of Famer, Keith was the Conn Smythe Trophy winner in 2014-15 and is a two-time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy (2009-10 and 2013-14). Seabrook is fourth among the franchise leaders with 1,114 games played and fifth among Chicago defensemen with 103 career goals.
All four played key roles in Chicago's Stanley Cup championships in 2009-10, 2012-13 and 2014-15.
Colorado Avalanche
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Nathan MacKinnon, Center
Cale Makar, Defense
Joe Sakic, Center
Peter Forsberg, Center
MacKinnon won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2013-14, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy in 2019-20 and the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award in 2023-24. Makar won the Calder in 2019-20 and the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2022. He's also a two-time winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy.
The Avalanche's all-time offensive leader Sakic won the Hart Memorial Trophy, the Ted Lindsay Award and the Lady Byng Trophy in 2000-01. Forsberg took home the Hart and the Art Ross Trophy in 2002-03 and sits fourth all-time with 538 assists. Both are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Sakic and Forsberg won the Stanley Cup in 1996 and 2001. MacKinnon and Makar were Cup champions in 2022.
Columbus Blue Jackets
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Sergei Bobrovsky, Goaltender
Rick Nash, Right Wing
Zach Werenski, Defense
Boone Jenner, Center
A two-time Vezina Trophy winner, Bobrovsky is the Blue Jackets' goaltending leader with 374 games played, 213 wins and 33 shutouts. Nash won the Maurice Richard Trophy in 2003-04, co-holds the single-season goal record (41) with Cam Atkinson and is the franchise leader with 289 goals and 547 points.
Werenski is the franchise assist leader with 271 and was runner-up for the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2024-25. Jenner is the franchise leader with 741 games played. He's also third with 199 goals, fourth with 383 points and sixth with 184 assists.
Dallas Stars
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Mike Modano, Center
Jamie Benn, Left Wing
Sergei Zubov, Defense
Marty Turco, Goaltender
A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Modano is the franchise leader with 1,459 games played, 557 goals, 802 assists and 1,359 points, including nine seasons from 2000-01 to 2009-10. Benn is the only Star to win the Art Ross Trophy (2014-15). He's second in games played (1,192), goals (399) and points (956).
Zubov is also in the Hall of Fame. He is fourth among the franchise leaders with 438 assists, fifth in games played (839) and eighth in points (549). Turco leads all Stars goalies with 509 games played, 262 wins and 40 shutouts.
Detroit Red Wings
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Nicklas Lidström, Defense
Steve Yzerman, Center
Pavel Datsyuk, Center
Henrik Zetterberg, Center
Lidström won the James Norris Memorial Trophy seven times from 2000-01 to 2010-11 and was the first European to captain an NHL team to the Stanley Cup (2008). Yzerman is the franchise assist leader (1,063) and captained the Wings to three Stanley Cups, including his last in 2002. Both are in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Datsyuk is also in the Hall of Fame, winning four Lady Byng Memorial Trophies and three Frank J. Selke Trophies between 2005-06 and 2009-10. Zetterberg won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2008 and is fifth among the franchise leaders with 337 goals, 623 assists and 960 points.
Edmonton Oilers
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Connor McDavid, Center
Leon Draisaitl, Center
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Center
Ryan Smyth, Left Wing
Since 2016-17, McDavid won the Art Ross Trophy five times, the Ted Lindsay Award four times, the Hart Memorial Trophy three times, and the Maurice Richard and Conn Smythe Trophies once. Draisaitl won the Art Ross, Lindsay and Hart trophies in 2019-20, and the Richard Trophy in 2024-25.
Nugent-Hopkins is third among the franchise leaders with 959 games played and is seventh with 477 assists and 748 points. Smyth spent 15 of his 19 NHL seasons with the Oilers, sitting second all-time with 971 games played, seventh with 296 goals and ninth with 631 points.
Florida Panthers
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Aleksander Barkov, Center
Aaron Ekblad, Defense
Jonathan Huberdeau, Left Wing
Roberto Luongo, Goaltender
Barkov leads the franchise with 804 games played, 286 goals, 496 assists and 782 points, winning the Frank J. Selke Trophy three times since 2020-21. Ekblad won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2014-15 and is second with 732 games played. Both of them helped the Panthers win the Stanley Cup in 2024 and 2025.
Huberdeau is second all-time with 198 goals, 415 assists and 613 points and third in games played with 671. Luongo spent 11 of his 19-season NHL career with the Panthers, and is the franchise goaltending leader with 572 games played, 230 wins and 38 shutouts.
Los Angeles Kings
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Anze Kopitar, Center
Drew Doughty, Defense
Jonathan Quick, Goaltender
Dustin Brown, Right Wing
The franchise leader with 1,454 games played and 838 assists, Kopitar is a three-time winner of the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy and a two-time winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy. Doughty is third all-time with 1,207 games played and won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2015-16.
Quick holds the franchise goalie records with 743 games played, 370 wins and 57 shutouts. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2012 and is a two-time winner of the William M. Jennings Trophy. Brown captained the Kings from 2008-09 to 2015-16 and is second all-time with 1,296 games played.
Minnesota Wild
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Mikko Koivu, Center
Marián Gáborík, Right Wing
Kirill Kaprizov, Left Wing
Jared Spurgeon, Defense
The longest-serving captain (12 years) in Wild history, Koivu is the franchise leader with 1,028 games played, 504 assists and 709 points. Gáborík was the Wild's first big star. He leads the club with 219 goals and is second in points with 437.
Kaprizov won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2020-21 and holds their single-season records with 47 goals and 61 assists for 108 points. Spurgeon is their current captain and sits second in games played with 933, and third in assists (299) and points with 416.
Montreal Canadiens
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Carey Price, Goaltender
Saku Koivu, Center
P.K. Subban, Defense
Andrei Markov, Defense
Price holds the franchise records for games played (712), wins (361) and single-season wins (44). He's the only goaltender to win the Hart, Vezina, Jennings and Lindsay Trophies in the same season (2014-15). Koivu spent 13 seasons with the Canadiens, sitting seventh with 470 assists and 10th with 641 points.
Subban spent seven of his 13 NHL seasons with the Canadiens. He won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2012-13 and was named to that season's First All-Star Team. Markov played his entire 16-season career with the Canadiens, sitting sixth all-time with 990 games played and 453 assists.
Nashville Predators
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Roman Josi, Defense
Pekka Rinne, Goaltender
Filip Forsberg, Left Wing
Shea Weber, Defense
The franchise leader with 962 games played, 534 assists and 724 points, Josi is also the longest-serving captain (eight years since 2017-18) and won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2019-20. A Vezina Trophy winner in 2017-18, Rinne is the franchise goalie leader with 683 games played, 369 wins and 60 shutouts.
Forsberg is the Predators' leader in single-season goals (48) and all-time goals (318). He's also second with 363 assists and 681 points. A Hall of Famer, Weber was the team captain from 2010-11 to 2015-16. He's fourth in games played (763) and goals (166) and fifth in assists (277) and points (443).
New Jersey Devils
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Martin Brodeur, Goaltender
Scott Stevens, Defense
Scott Niedermayer, Defense
Patrik Eliáš, Left Wing
Brodeur is the NHL's all-time leader in wins (691), games played (1,266) and shutouts (125), most of which occurred during 21 seasons with the Devils. He's also a four-time Vezina Trophy winner. Stevens is the longest-serving captain (12 years) in franchise history, sitting fifth all-time with 956 games played.
Niedermayer is second all-time in assists with 364 and won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2003-04. Eliáš is the franchise leader with 408 goals, 617 assists and 1,025 points, and is third in games played with 1,240.
Brodeur, Stevens and Niedermayer won three Stanley Cups with the Devils (the last two being in 2000 and 2003) and are in the Hockey Hall of Fame. Eliáš won two Cups (2000, 2003) with New Jersey.
New York Islanders
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John Tavares, Center
Brock Nelson, Center
Anders Lee, Left Wing
Mathew Barzal, Center
One of the highest-scoring players in Islanders history, Tavares is fifth all-time with 621 points, sixth in assists with 349 and ninth with 272 goals. Nelson is fourth all-time with 901 games played, fifth with 295 goals and eighth with 574 points.
Captain of the Islanders since 2018-19, Lee is sixth with 289 goals and ninth in games played with 841. Barzal won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2017-18 and is ninth in assists with 328.
New York Rangers
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Henrik Lundqvist, Goaltender
Artemi Panarin, Left Wing
Chris Kreider, Left Wing
Adam Fox, Defense
Dubbed “King Henrik” by Rangers fans, Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy in 2011-12 and is the franchise goalie leader with 887 games played, 459 wins and 64 shutouts. Panarin has led the Rangers in scoring since 2019-20 (550 points) and is a two-time First Team All-Star, sitting eighth all-time with 364 assists.
Kreider is third all-time with 326 goals, eighth in games played with 883 and 10th in points with 582. Fox won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2020-21, becoming the first sophomore defenseman to do so since Bobby Orr in 1967-68. He was a finalist for the Norris in 2022-23.
Ottawa Senators
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Daniel Alfredsson, Right Wing
Erik Karlsson, Defense
Jason Spezza, Center
Wade Redden, Defense
Alfredsson spent 17 of his 18 NHL seasons with the Senators, 13 as team captain. The Hall of Famer is the franchise leader with 426 goals, 682 assists and 1,108 points. Karlsson won two of his three James Norris Memorial Trophies with the Senators and is third all-time with 392 assists and 518 points.
Spezza is second all-time among Senators scorers with 251 goals, 436 assists and 687 points. Redden is fourth all-time with 838 games played and 309 assists, and fifth in points with 410.
Philadelphia Flyers
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Claude Giroux, Center
Sean Couturier, Center
Jakub Voráček, Right Wing
Simon Gagné, Left Wing
A versatile two-way forward, Giroux was the Flyers' longest-serving captain from 2012-13 to 2021-22. He's second all-time in games played (1,000), assists (609) and points (900). Couturier won the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2019-20 and is fourth in games played with 874.
Voráček spent 10 of his 15 NHL seasons with the Flyers, sitting fifth in assists with 427 and 10th in points with 604. Gagné spent 11 of his 14-season NHL career as a Flyer, sitting 10th in goals with 264.
Pittsburgh Penguins
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Sidney Crosby, Center
Evgeni Malkin, Center
Marc-André Fleury, Goaltender
Kris Letang, Defense
Crosby is the franchise leader with 1,352 games played and 1,062 assists. He's a two-time winner of the Hart, Art Ross, Richard and Conn Smythe Trophies. Malkin won the Hart, Conn Smythe and Calder Trophies and is a two-time Art Ross Trophy winner. He's second with 1,213 games played and third in points (1,346).
Fleury is the Penguins' goaltending leader with 691 games played, 375 wins and 44 shutouts. Letang is third in games played (1,161) and leads all Penguins defensemen with 597 assists and 772 points.
San Jose Sharks
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Patrick Marleau, Center
Joe Thornton, Center
Brent Burns, Defense
Evgeni Nabokov, Goaltender
Marleau played a team-leading 1,607 of his NHL-leading 1,779 games with the Sharks. He also leads the franchise with 522 goals and 1,111 points. Thornton won the Hart and Art Ross trophies in 2005-06. The Hall of Famer leads the Sharks with 804 assists and holds the single-season records of 92 assists and 114 points.
Winner of the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2016-17, Burns is third among the Sharks with 422 assists and fifth with 594 points. Nabokov won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2000-01 and is the franchise goalie leader with 563 games played, 293 wins and 50 shutouts.
Seattle Kraken
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Jared McCann, Left Wing
Vince Dunn, Defense
Jordan Eberle, Right Wing
Adam Larsson, Defense
McCann is the single-season record holder with 40 goals and 70 points for this young franchise. He's also their franchise leader with 118 goals and 243 points. Dunn holds the single-season assist record (50) and is the franchise leader (141) in that category.
Eberle is third among the franchise leaders with 67 goals, 110 assists and 177 points. Larsson missed only one game in the Kraken's first four seasons, leading the club with 327 games played. He's also seventh in assists (77) and eighth with 104 points.
St. Louis Blues
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Alex Pietrangelo, Defense
Ryan O'Reilly, Center
Chris Pronger, Defense
Vladimir Tarasenko, Right Wing
Pietrangelo captained St. Louis to their first Stanley Cup in 2018-19. He's third all-time with 341 assists and second all-time among their defensemen with 450 points. O'Reilly spent five seasons with the Blues but made a big impact, winning the Conn Smythe Trophy and the Frank J. Selke Trophy in 2018-19.
Pronger spent nine seasons with the Blues from 1995-96 to 2003-04, winning the Norris and Hart Trophies in 1999-2000. The Hall of Famer is the franchise leader in plus-minus (plus-140). Tarasenko is fifth all-time with 262 goals and 553 points, and was part of their 2018-19 Stanley Cup run.
Tampa Bay Lightning
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Steven Stamkos, Center
Nikita Kucherov, Right Wing
Martin St. Louis, Right Wing
Victor Hedman, Defense
The longest-serving captain (11 seasons) in Lightning history, Stamkos won the Maurice Richard Trophy twice and is the franchise leader with 555 goals and 1,137 points. Kucherov is their assist leader (637) and won the Hart Memorial Trophy in 2018-19, the Art Ross Trophy three times and the Ted Lindsay Award twice.
Hall of Famer Martin St. Louis won the Art Ross twice, the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy three times, and the Hart Trophy and Lindsay Award in 2003-04. Hedman is the leader in games played (1,131), and won the James Norris Memorial Trophy in 2017-18 and the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2019-20.
Stamkos, Kucherov and Hedman won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and 2021. St. Louis helped the Lightning win their first Cup in 2004.
Toronto Maple Leafs
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Auston Matthews, Center
Mats Sundin, Center
Mitch Marner, Right Wing
Morgan Rielly, Defense
The Leafs' single-season goal leader (69), Matthews is a three-time winner of the Maurice Richard Trophy and also won the Calder Memorial Trophy and the Hart Trophy. A Hall of Famer, Sundin is the franchise leader with 420 goals and 987 points.
Marner spent nine seasons with the Maple Leafs, sitting fourth in assists with 520 and fifth in points with 741. Rielly is seventh with 426 assists, ninth in games played with 873 and third among Leafs defensemen with 513 points.
Utah Mammoth
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Shane Doan, Right Wing
Clayton Keller, Left Wing
Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Defense
Ilya Bryzgalov, Goaltender
The Mammoth were the Phoenix/Arizona Coyotes from 1996-97 to 2023-24.
Doan spent his entire 21-season career with the Coyotes, moving with them from Winnipeg in 1996. He's the franchise leader with 1,540 games played, 402 goals, 570 assists and 972 points. Keller has a combined 196 goals and 321 assists for 508 points.
Ekman-Larsson sat fourth among the Coyotes with 769 games played, seventh with 260 assists, and ninth with 388 points. Bryzgalov was the franchise leader with 130 wins and was runner-up for the Vezina Trophy in 2009-10.
Vancouver Canucks
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Henrik Sedin, Center
Daniel Sedin, Left Wing
Markus Näslund, Left Wing
Quinn Hughes, Defense
The Sedins are the first twins inducted into the Hall of Fame. Henrik is the franchise leader with 1,330 games played, 830 assists and 1,070 points, and won the Hart and Art Ross trophies in 2009-10. Daniel is the goals leader (393) and won the Art Ross Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award in 2010-11.
Näslund won the Lindsay Award in 2002-03 and was a First Team All-Star from 2001-02 to 2003-04, sitting second in goals (346) and third in points with 756. Hughes is the first Canucks defenseman to win the James Norris Memorial Trophy and sits seventh in assists with 350.
Vegas Golden Knights
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Marc-André Fleury, Goaltender
Jonathan Marchessault, Left Wing
Shea Theodore, Defense
Jack Eichel, Center
Fleury backstopped the Golden Knights to the 2018 Stanley Cup Final. He won the Vezina Trophy in 2020-21 and is the franchise goalie leader with 192 games played, 117 wins and 23 shutouts. Marchessault won the Conn Smythe Trophy in 2023 and is their all-time leader with 192 goals and 417 points.
Theodore is among the few original Golden Knights still with the team. He's the franchise leader with 273 assists, third with 346 points and fourth with 511 games played. Eichel helped them win the 2023 Stanley Cup and holds the single-season records with 66 assists and 94 points.
Washington Capitals
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Alex Ovechkin, Left Wing
Nicklas Bäckström, Center
Olaf Kolzig, Goaltender
John Carlson, Defense
The NHL's all-time goal-scoring leader (897), Ovechkin won the Richard Trophy nine times, the Hart Trophy three times, and the Calder Memorial Trophy and the Conn Smythe Trophy. Bäckström is the Capitals' assists leader (762) and is second with 1,033 points and 1,105 games played.
Winner of the Vezina Trophy in 1999-2000, Kolzig is the franchise goaltending leader with 711 games played, 301 wins and is tied with Braden Holtby with 35 shutouts. Carlson is third in games played (1,088) and assists (569) and fifth in points with 725.
Winnipeg Jets
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Connor Hellebuyck, Goaltender
Mark Scheifele, Center
Ilya Kovalchuk, Left Wing
Blake Wheeler, Right Wing
A three-time winner of the Vezina Trophy, Hellebuyck is the first Jet to win the Hart Memorial Trophy. He's also the franchise goalie leader with 568 games played, 322 wins and 45 shutouts. Scheifele is the franchise leader with 336 goals and second with 879 games played, 468 assists and 804 points.
During the Jets' earlier incarnation as the Atlanta Thrashers, Kovalchuk was their biggest star. He won the Maurice Richard Trophy in 2003-04 and is second with 328 goals and third with 615 points. Wheeler is the franchise leader with 897 games played, 550 assists and 812 points.
Trophy information via NHL.com, stats via Hockey Reference and Quant Hockey.
