It's time to flip the script, writes DownGoesBrown. No more making Hall of Fame cases for players. It's time to come up with arguments for why players 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣'𝙩 receive an invite to hockey's most illustrious club.
Except for maybe one guy …Joseph is another one of the overlooked goalies, but I’m separating him out because I think he’s the strongest case. In fact, he would have my vote, so I’m doing that disingenuous sportswriter thing where I argue a case I don’t really believe.
team, and his Olympic gold medal came in a year where he lost the starter’s job during the tournament. He was a regular-season winner, but maybe that’s not enough.The case against Larmer is that there’s never really been a solid case for him. Yes, he had over 1,000 points, although only barely and after a 15-year career that overlapped with the highest-scoring era of all time. Yes, he had an impressive ironman streak — so did.
It just didn’t last. By 1994, Roenick was absolutely on a HHOF track, with room to spare. But after he left Chicago, he went from being a superstar to just a guy. He had three straight 100-point seasons in Chicago, then never even got to 80 again. The dead puck era was a big part of that, and he still managed to get just past the 500-goal and 1,200-point plateaus, so there’s a case here. It’s just one that peaks too early.
The flip side of the Tkachuk case is LeClair, who had a much better peak but couldn’t reach the same career numbers. He was a first-team All-Star at left wing twice — both the years that Tkachuk was second — and a second-teamer three other times. He had two top-seven Hart finishes and three straight 50-goal seasons. For a five-year stretch, he was the best left winger in the NHL, and that kind of peak is usually enough.
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