shanny will eventually get in ..HOF..not this year ...

Shanny is the 2nd player to have the most 20goal season in a row (19), in addition he is the only player in NHL history to score 600+ goals and have 2000+ PIMs.

Not to mention, he won a King Clancy and has 3 Stanley Cup.


Shanny is the prime example of power forward.
- BooBoo997

Everything you say is true. But I'd still take Sakic (no brainer), Oates (second highest-scoring player of the 90s, with more total points and points per game during the decade than the likes of Sakic, Yzerman and Hull), and Sundin (16 consecutive seasons of .90 or more points per game) before I'd take Shanahan.

Bure is more of a tossup because of his injuries and holdout, but he was better at his peak than Shanahan was.

lol Sundin in the Hall...pickings are getting slim..never won a thing.

I think someone might have a little crush on Shannahan...

so they guy gets paid to run his own website and he is incapable of running a spell check or proof reading on the 2, MAYBE 3, posts a day he makes that are typically less than 200 words.

makes sense
- FourFeathers773

Spell check costs too much money nowadays for a business if it is not outsourced to India. Its the unfortunate effect of today's economy and rather than insult EK, why not console him?

The best pure passer I have ever seen. Consistent beyond belief. Best playmaker in his generation.

there was a guy named Wayne

Parise is going to Minnesota i dont care what anybody says!
- Neal18Koivu9

You might wanna care what Parise says.....

lol Sundin in the Hall...pickings are getting slim..never won a thing.
- Nolanders

His gold medals disagree.

lol Sundin in the Hall...pickings are getting slim..never won a thing.
- Nolanders

true, 0 cups
detroit doesnt win cups if not for Shanahan, he was the final piece

His gold medals disagree.
- BlowMonkey

HOF in NHL my friend....good try....Domi won a bowling tourney once too..get him in the hall!!!

Doan to Avs

Greatest playmaker of his generation....uh....Wayne Gretzky? Mario Lemieux?

The best passer you have ever seen? Oates was among the best sure, but dude, lets not sensationalize too much, especially when you would have had to live in a cave not to see the above two.
- mykokes

Dont you know? Ek LOVES and is a fan of every player that has ever played.

You might wanna care what Parise says.....
- Phenom

sources telling me the teams with the best chance for Parise are Minnesota, Detroit and Pittsburgh

HOF in NHL my friend....good try....Domi won a bowling tourney once too..get him in the hall!!!
- Nolanders

true, 0 cups
detroit doesnt win cups if not for Shanahan, he was the final piece
- wingz4life

Shanny got to be there..deserves it over Mats hands down..too bad he didn't wear a Leaf uniform...he would be in for sure

Did the AVS give Downie a qualifying offer?

It might be a fun fact, but Bure was a sensational player in his prime. Roenick was not in Bure's league. If the HHOF was about stats, how in the world did a third liner like Richard Duff ever make it?
- thepuckstopshere

And yet in their respective primes, Roenick outscored Bure.

Weird.

Again, any player will look amazing when you only consider their first 12 years, which will typically be their best by far.

The player who defined the scoring power center position and the best Leaf EVER. The all-time leading scorer of any original 6 franchise. Think about that!

You forgot about Bourque and Lafleur. He's still very deserving, but them passing over Shanny and Pat Burns is a joke.

Shanny got to be there..deserves it over Mats hands down..too bad he didn't wear a Leaf uniform...he would be in for sure
- Nolanders

Shanny will be there.

lol Sundin in the Hall...pickings are getting slim..never won a thing.
- Nolanders

Except 3 world championships and an Olympic Gold Medal

HOF in NHL my friend....good try....Domi won a bowling tourney once too..get him in the hall!!!
- Nolanders

It's the hockey hall of fame, not the NHL hall of fame.

Considering they could only put 4 through I think they got it right.

Except 3 world championships and an Olympic Gold Medal
- Zezel

ok?

its Toronto, he was a leaf, holds the leaf franchise record for all time points
his olympic and world champs teams could of finished in 20th place and he still would be in

true, 0 cups
detroit doesnt win cups if not for Shanahan, he was the final piece
- wingz4life

In bizarro universe, where Sundin played for the Red Wings and Shanahan played for the Leafs, Shanahan has 0 cups and Sundin probably has at least a couple.

Blaming Sundin for never having won anything is silly. The man played at above .90 ppg for 16 straight years -- all but his rookie year and his final year. He led the Leafs in scoring every single season he played there.

His worst full, non-lockout-shortened point total with the Leafs in 12 seasons was 72 points. To put that in perspective, over the same stretch (1995-2008) the only other Leafs to score at least that many were Mogilny once (79), Thomas once (73) and Gilmour once (72).

The reason Sundin never won a Stanley Cup isn't because he isn't a "winner." He never won a Stanley Cup because it's a 30-team league and the Leafs had no one to play with him.

ok?

its Toronto, he was a leaf, holds the leaf franchise record for all time points
his olympic and world champs teams could of finished in 20th place and he still would be in
- wingz4life

He needn't have won those international tournaments to get into the hall, this is true. But he's not in because of Toronto, he's in because of his being a dominant powerforward consistently for almost 20 years.