Many NHL stars have worn #77, but it's most famously associated with legendary defensemen like Ray Bourque, who won Cups with it in Colorado, and offensive powerhouse Victor Hedman, plus dynamic blueliners Paul Coffey; forwards Pierre Turgeon, Chris Gratton, and Jeff Carter also had notable careers in the number, often linked to elite offensive players.
The Boston Bruins retired Ray Bourque's No. 77 on Oct. 4th, 2001 , in a pregame ceremony before their 4-2 season opening victory against the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. He played in 1,518 games for the Bruins from 1979 until he was traded to the Colorado Avalanche in 2000.
No, #69 isn't officially banned in the NHL, but it's unofficially discouraged due to its sexual connotation, leading to very few players wearing it, with Melvin Angelstad and Andrew Desjardins being the only notable NHLers to sport it, often as a joke, and most players avoid it to prevent being constantly teased or seen as immature.
Least Common NHL Jersey Numbers: 99, 87, 69, & 00.
Hedman is from Örnsköldsvik and trains with Daniel and Henrik Sedin in the off-season. In a 2016 interview with The Hockey News, Hedman revealed that he wears jersey number 77 as a homage to Ray Bourque, whom he idolized as a child.
For a majority of his NHL career, Bourque wore jersey number 77. After he retired following the 2000–01 season, both the Bruins and the Avalanche honored him by retiring number 77.
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The National Hockey League no longer permits 0 nor 00 for jersey numbers, as they cannot be entered into the NHL's database, and the available numbers only go up to 98 since the League retired the number 99 in honour of Wayne Gretzky.
He originally wore number 69 with the Sharks, becoming the second player in NHL history behind Mel Angelstad to wear the number in a regular season game, though he later switched to number 10 following the departure of Christian Ehrhoff.
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The Blackhawks' red sweater is regularly ranked among the best hockey jerseys of all time. Featuring one of the most iconic logos in sports, its combination of bold colors and intricate striping gives it both visual depth and timeless appeal.
A retired number is a jersey number that is taken out of circulation by a team as a way of honouring a former member of that team who wore that number; after the number's retirement, members of that team are not permitted to wear the number on their jerseys unless by permission of the original number holder.
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Rodman wanted the jersey number 69, and one jersey was made, which he held up in his introductory press conference. The league forbid him from wearing that jersey due to the number's sexual connotations; Rodman wound up wearing number 70 instead.
On this day in 1999, Wayne Gretzky, number 99, played his final NHL game. That day, his number 99 was also retired, across the NHL. At the time of his retirement, Gretzky held 61 NHL records. The usual three-year waiting period for election to the Hockey Hall of Fame was also waived for number 99.
The most productive years of Park's career were overshadowed by Bobby Orr, with whom he played for a brief time, and Denis Potvin, so Park never hoisted the Stanley Cup nor won the Norris Trophy as the season's top defenceman. Park was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1988.
0- Neil Sheehy. There has only been one player to wear a single zero as a jersey number in NHL history. That man is Neil Sheehy. He wore the number for one season with the Hartford Whalers in 1987-88 where he scored just five points.
Kane chose to wear the No. 88 jersey as a reference to his birthyear, a tradition he practiced with his former teammates on the London Knights. Kane made his NHL debut on October 4, 2007, against the Minnesota Wild.
The decision was made in accordance with Rule 69.1 which states, in part, “Goals should be disallowed only if: (1) an attacking player, either by his positioning or by contact, impairs the goalkeeper's ability to move freely within his crease or defend his goal.”
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The NHL banned jersey numbers 0 and 00 starting in the 1996-97 season because they caused conflicts and confusion with the league's digital database and player tracking systems, essentially being read as a "null" value; this technical issue prevented proper data entry and management for those numbers, making them unusable despite history with players like Neil Sheehy (No. 0) and Martin Biron (No. 00) before the rule change.
The numbers 58, 59, 64, 69, 74, 75, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 87, 95, and 97 have never been worn. There is always a big dropoff from when the ones digit goes from 5 to 6. It only goes down 88 for 5 to 6, but 15 to 16 is a drop of 196 times, 25 to 26 is 156, 35 to 36 is 149, and 45 to 46 is 102.
What is the Gretzky rule in hockey? The Gretzky Rule refers to a rule implemented in the NHL during the 1985–86 season, limiting how many points a player could be on the ice for in any single power play. This was due to Wayne Gretzky's dominance, as he scored multiple points during power plays.
Nicknamed "the Great One", he has been called the greatest ice hockey player ever by the NHL based on surveys of hockey writers, ex-players, general managers and coaches. Gretzky is the leading career point scorer and assist producer in NHL history and has more assists than any other player has total career points.
Gretzky wore that pin in honor of the late Gordie Howe, who owned the goals record before Gretzky. Howe was there in 1994 to shake Gretzky's hand when he broke the record, the same way Gretzky was there for Ovechkin Sunday.