Top 10 European Hockey Players

Best European hockey player by far. He has 1,638 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 (1,638), most regular season points by a player born outside of Canada (1,638), most all-time regular season points by a European-born and trained player (1,638), 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), and most consecutive 70-or-more point seasons (16).

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. Also, Jari Kurri played with Wayne Gretzky, and Jaromir Jagr played with Mario Lemieux.

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

He is still playing against the youngsters and doing really well.

There is no question that the Dominator is the best goalie of all time. He won six Vezina Trophies and two Hart 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 second.

Great hockey player haunted by a foot injury. He is one of the few players to have won the 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-around 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 time. He didn't have a chance to show it for long, but when he was healthy, he dominated the NHL.

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 the USA beat them 4-3.

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

The only thing about the Leafs that was good.

Unlike Fedorov, Jagr, and Forsberg, he had no one else... Jonas Hoglund, enough said.

Definitely Top 5. Jagr, Stastny, and Makarov are rated above him. He made people look silly, scoring 5v1 on a rush, dekeing everyone defending him. Nobody gives him credit for his outstanding defensive play, plus everyone's puck went missing? The magic man of hockey.

Top 5 for sure. He wasn't a goal-scoring machine all the time but made very high IQ plays along with some of the best stick handling. Pavel "Magician" Datsyuk.