Top 10 European Hockey Players

Best European hockey player by far. 1638 points (659 goals and 979 assists) as of 02-12-2012. He is one of a small group of hockey players to have won the Stanley Cup, Olympic Gold Medal and World Championship (Triple Gold Club). Jagr received several awards and holds several NHL records such as Most regular season points by a European born and trained player 149, Most regular season points by a player born outside of Canada 149, Most all-time regular season points by a European born and trained player 1638, Most all-time regular season goals by a European born and trained player 659, Most all-time overtime goals 15, Most consecutive 30-goal seasons 15, Most consecutive 70-or-more point seasons 16, etc.

Teemu Selänne is by far the best European ice hockey player ever. He's still a top 20 scorer at 41, and he's the all-time Olympic point-scorer. Add also that Jari Kurri played with Wayne Gretzky and that Jaromir Jagr played with Mario Lemieux.

Teemu Selanne should be first because, he is old, but still in top 20 in points. Finnish Flash is the hockey king.

He is still playing against the youngsters and does it really good.

Great hockey player haunted by a foot injury. He is one of the few players that have won stanley cup, world championship and Olympic gold twice. He can read the game like no one else and when he played healthy he was as good as Lemieux and Gretzky.

The perfect all round player. When fit, there was no-one on the planet who could touch him. His size, speed and strength were all great but it was his sick stick handling skills that made him truly elite.

Best player of all times. He didn't have a chance to show it for long, but when he was healthy, he dominated the NHL.

There is no question that the Dominator is the best goalie of all time. He won 6 Vezina trophies and 2 Heart trophies. Most of which came when he played for the Buffalo Sabres, who would have been horrible without him. He also became the first European goaltender to win the Stanley Cup. There is no question Jagr is the best European to ever play in the NHL, but Hasek should be 2nd.

Tretiak would have dominated against any of the greatest goaltenders of that time. He owned Ken Dryden the best goalie in the 1970s and the Canadians in the 72 Summit Series. His Domination of the IIHF and Olympics was incredible. Greatest goaltender of all time.

Led the Soviets to 45 consecutive wins up until 1980 in the Olympics when USA beat them 4-3

Pittsburgh's second line center is better than any other team's first

The only thing about leaf that was good.

Unlike federov and jagr and forsberg he had no one else...jonas hoglund enough said

Def Top 5, Jagr Stastny, Makarov rated above,he made people look silly scored 5v1 on a rush dekeing everyone defending him and nobody gives him credit about his defensive play was outstanding as well, plus everyone's puck went missing? The magic man of hockey. Top 5 for sure. Sure he wasn't goal scoring machine all the time made very high IQ plays along with one of the best stick handling. Pavel "magician" Datsyuk.

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