By The Numbers: Greatest Players From 00 To 99

NOw then I've been waiting a while to post this so here we go. This list is from a book of the same name produced by Hockey Night In Canada! NOw what I will be doing here is I will be writing the list itself then writing my opinion on the list. So here we go the best by the numbers from 00 to 99.

00-John Davidson
0- Neil Sheehy
1- Terry Sawchuk
2- Doug Harvey
3- Scott Stevens
4- Booby Orr
5- Denis Potvin
6- Ace Bailey
7- Howie Morenz
8- Cam Neely
9- Gordie Howe
10- Guy Lafleur
11- Mark Messier
12- Dickie Moore
13- Mats Sundin
14- Dave Keon
15- Milt Schmidt
16- Henri Richard
17- Jari Kurri
18- Denis Savard
19- Steve Yzerman
20- Luc Robitaille
21- Stan Mikita
22- Mike Bossy
23- Bob Gainey
24- Chris Chelios
25- Jacques Lemaire
26- Peter Stastny
27- Frank Mahovlich
28- Steve Larmer
29- Ken Dryden
30- Martin Brodeur
31- Grant Fuhr
32- Dale Hunter
33- Patrick Roy
34- John Vanbiesbrouck
35- Tony Esopsito
36- Glenn Anderson
37- Olie Kolzig
38- Dave Andreychuk
39- Dominik Hasek
40- Henrik Zetterberg
41- Stu Barnes
42- Sergi Markov
43- Martin Biron
44- Chris PRonger
45- Brendan Morrow
46- Martin St. Louis
47- Viktor Kozlov
48- Danny Briere
49- Brian Savage
50- Trevor Letowski
51- Brian Campbell
52- Adam Foote
53- Nikolai Khabibulin
54- Hannu Toivonen
55- Larry Murphy
56- Sergi Zubov
57- Steve Heinze
58- Bill Berg
59- Tom FItzgerald
60- Jose Theodore
61- Rick Nash
62- Olli Jokinen
63- Mike Ribeiro
64- Darrin Shannon
65- Mark Napier
66- Mario Lemieux
67- Robert Svehla
68- Jaromir Jagr
69- Mel Angelstad
70- Oleg Tverdovsky
71- Evgeni Malkin
72- Mattheu Schneider
73- MIchael Ryder
74- Paul Coffey
75- Hal Gill
76- Dustin Penner
77- Ray Bourque
78- Pavol Demitra
79- Alexei Yashin
80- Nik Antropov
81- Miroslav Satan
82- Martin Straka
83- Ales Hemsky
84- Guillaume Latendresse
85- Petr Kilma
86- Jonathan Ferland
87- Sidney Crosby
88- Eric Lindros
89- Alexander Mogilny
90- Joe Juneau
91- Sergei Fedorov
92- Rick Tocchet
93- Doug Gilmour
94- Ryan Smyth
95- Danny Markov
96- Tomas Holmstrom
97- Jeremy Roenick
98- Brian Lawton
99- Wayne Gretzky



Now of the numbers listed above there are few that are no doubters such as 66, 68 87, 71, 99 and such. There are a few that could bring about strong debate. That is what I will do now. Of the listed I do not disagree with anything. It's the list of the other guys at the numbers that are up for debate now. The first number up for debate is #10. Guy Lafleur won at that number and that is good. BUt They had the Russian Rocket Pavel Bure listed at #8 on this list and I disagree I think Bure should be 7. Now George Armstrong is listed at 3 on this and he should be lowered to 8 and have everybody else pushed upwared by one spot . Another number for debate is #8. Neely won at 8 a good call. What annoyed me was that Ovechkin was at 10 on this list whereas I feel he should have been easily 5 on the list.

The list for #19 may have been the closest one here. Here is what the list looked like for #19
1. Steve Yzerman
2. Joe Sakic
3. Larry Robinson
4. Brian trottier
5. Jean Ratelle
6. Rick MacLeash
7. Butch Goering
8. Paul Henderson
9. Joe Thorton
10. Brad Richards

Now two things about this list. Firs is I would have switched Joe Thorton up to the 7 spot and dropped Butch Goering down to 9 but again that is just me. The other thing I want to bring up is that this may have been the closest race on the whole list. It could have gone eitehr way between Yzerman and Sakic but the reason I feel it went to Stevie Y is because he put up better numbers for longer than Super Joe but both guys are locks for Toronto.

IF anybody wants to get more in-depth with this list go to your local bookstore and look up the book BY THE NUMBERS FROM 00 TO 99. That is the full list and details of the list I just presented. Enjoy it!

Jim Thome Joins 600 HR Club

Monday night Slugger Jim Thome recorded his 600th career home run in the seventh inning against the Detroit Tigers. Thome 600th home run came on his 8,167th at-bat, which is the second fastest in Major League history. Babe Ruth reached 600 home runs in 6,920 at-bats. Thome also became the first big-leaguer to his numbers 599 and 600 in consecutive at-bats. He became the 8th player to reach this mark. And not only was he the 8th man to reach 600 but he is 8th all-time on the home run list behind Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr, Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds, and Thome is only the 4th lefty every to hit 600.

Of the guys ahead of him on the Home Run list, 3 of them are already in the Baseball hall of fame, Mays Aaron and Ruth. Of the remaining 5 guys, Thome included, I can only really see 2 of them getting into the hall of fame clean, Jim himself and Ken Griffey Jr. What I mean by that is, Griffey and Thome are both hall of famers there is no debate on this topic. The debate here is to whether or not Sosa, Bonds, or A-Rod get in. The reason I say that is again due to the steroid allegations. Of those three guys though the one I feel with the best chance to get in is A-Rod because he had a very very good career before the steroids accusations hit him. As for Jim Thome he deserves every bit of the recognition he got and for that I tip my hat to him for hitting #600!