The fun wouldn't be complete unless we visited, for a bonus, with Sheehy and Biron. Beginning with the 1996-97 season, the NHL decreed that Nos. 0 and 00 could no longer be worn since they confused the League's digital database; today, only No. 1 through No.
Why are players in the NHL not allowed to wear 0 or 00? 0 and 00 are not allowed because it raises hell with the NHL database. Three digit numbers are not allowed for the same reason. Martin Biron of the Buffalo Sabres wore 00 during the 1995–96 season.
While no one is legally allowed to wear 99 on for any team.. It's not the least worn number of all time. That number would be 0. Both 0 and 00 are illegal numbers in the NHL.
The NHL no longer permits the use of 0 or 00 as the League's database cannot list players with such numbers, and in 2000 the League retired the number 99 for all member teams in honor of Wayne Gretzky.
Athletes in every team sport have a number on their jersey to identify them.In the NHL, players are given numbers between 1 and 98. Anything less than 1 (0, fractions, decimals) are not permitted and anything over two digits is not permitted. Additionally, 99 was retired by the league to honor "The Great One."
Wayne Gretzky's No. 99 is retired throughout the NHL not only because he is considered the greatest player in League history, but because the number and his name are synonymous. Though there is no debate over who the best player to wear that number is, there are 98 other numbers with more than one worthy candidate.
Fun fact: Desjardins and forward Melvin Angelstad (two games with the Washington Capitals in 2003-04) are the only players in NHL history to wear No. 69.
The NBA does not allow the number 69 to be worn by players as it carries a sexual connotation and could offend some fans. Despite Dennis Rodman seeking permission to use it when he joined the Mavericks in 1997, the league declined and he had to settle for wearing #70 instead.
Neil Sheehy wore the number 0 when he played with the Hartford Whalers for the 1987-88 season, and to this day he is the only skater to ever wear the number. He wasn't much of a goal scorer, as he only tallied 5 points in 26 games and had a minus-3 rating, but he was very effective with his enforcer skills.
In ice hockey, a shutout (SO) is credited to a goaltender who successfully stops the other team from scoring during the entire game. In regular season games, if the score is 0-0 with the game going to a penalty shootout, both goaltenders are credited with a shutout.
In the NHL's points system, a team is awarded 2 points for a win (regardless if earned in regulation, overtime or shootout), 1 point for a tie, 1 point for an overtime loss, and 0 points for a loss.
99 – The Great One
Unless you are the Great One, this number is completely off limits to any hockey player anywhere in the known universe. It is retired in the NHL, and pretty much around any hockey leagues in North America, and quite likely in the whole world.
The first-choice goalkeeper is usually assigned the number 1 shirt as they are the first player in a line-up. The second-choice goalkeeper wears, on many occasions, shirt number 12 which is the first shirt of the second line up, or number 13.
No. 0. What's even rarer than the double-zero is the single zero in the NHL. Only one man has worn this number, and most likely you've never heard of him.
It's a number they know they couldn't live up to. No player has worn number 66 full-time since Vancouver's Gino Odjick in 1991. The last time a player took the NHL ice in number 66 was last season when Calgary's T.J. Brodie played a total of three games in it until he switched to number 7.
Before player introductions, Tod Leiweke noted that the Kraken -- the NHL's 32nd active franchise -- proved viable when they drew 32,000 depositors for tickets. With all that in mind, the Kraken retired the number 32 before participating in that first-ever home game.
Earlier in his career, he played for the Chicago Blackhawks and the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Desjardins won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015. He is also notable for being one of only two players in NHL history to have worn the number 69, with the other being Mel Angelstad.
Since the 1950-51 season, only three players are in the number 99 club, Gretzky, Rick Dudley and Wilf Paiement. Mel Angelstad and Andrew Desjardins are the only players since 1950 to wear Rob Gronkowski's favourite number.
Numbers in the thirties were seen as "safe" for goaltenders, since most numbers below thirty were already spoken for by forwards and defensemen (remember that "high numbers" were essentially-unheard of at this time).
Number 00 is no longer allowed, but was not retired in honor of any particular player; rather, the NFL's positional numbering system, imposed in 1973, simply does not allocate a position for players wearing that number (the NFL allowed that number in the past; Jim Otto and Ken Burrough wore 00).
69: Jared Allen
The four-time All-Pro wore the digits for four teams in his 12-year career, which ended with 136 sacks (including 22 in 2011 for Minnesota).
There is no one currently playing in Major League Baseball with the uniform number 69. The last player to wear that number was relief pitcher Scott Proctor, who last played in 2012. The National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, contains some of baseball's most recognizable numbers.
It is what people know and in 98 years of NHL there are many players who have made their number go down in history. #1 is a number typically reserved for goalies and the following is a list of the Top 5 goalies in history to ever wear the number #1.
Unlike the number 99, the NHL hasn't retired 66, which means any player can still use it. Some see it as a sign of disrespect, but Ho-Sang has made it clear that that's the last thing on his mind when he decided he wanted to wear Lemieux's old number.
98 is the rarest number in NHL history. Only three players have worn it – Brian Lawton, Jesse Puljujarvi, and Mikhail Sergachev.