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Top 50 Players of All-Time by Franchise
In The Hockey News 2017 Collector’s Edition, we count down the top 50 players for each NHL franchise. With stats and bios for all 1,500 players, plus a full-page profile on a star for every club, and top 10s for the six defunct teams, this mag is a trip through the game’s rich history that all fans are sure to enjoy.


THE GREAT EQUALIZER
WITH ABOUT A month to go in 2010- 11, Corey Perry was having a nice season. He was seventh in the scoring race and sixth in goals, trailing league leader Steven Stamkos by 10. Then Perry caught Lightning (and five others) in a bottle. Over his next 14 contests, he scored 19 times to reach the celebrated 50 plateau, blowing past the field to snare the Rocket Richard Trophy. The Ducks won 10 of those 14, and Perry recorded the winner in five of them. It was truly an astounding run, and it earned him the Hart Trophy. But (and you knew a “but” was coming), it could be argued that while Perry deserved the Hart in 2011, his MVP performance was the weakest of the past few decades. The competition…


UNFINISHED BUSINESS
TO GO A bit meta: no player interviewed for this special edition of THN was more excited to participate than Trevor Linden. “I always find it very interesting, regardless of what sport it is, to learn about what guys do after their careers,” he said. “It’s a fascinating look at where people wind up and how, whether it be in private business or retired or back in the game.” Of course Linden’s keen on this topic. Few players have done as much with their posthockey lives as he has. He’s only 47, and he can already add “NHL Players’ Association president” and “NHL team president” to his jam-packed resume. It turns out 1,382 games and 19 seasons, seven of which were spent as Vancouver Canucks captain, were just the beginning for…


WHEN WALZ WENT WILD
EVERY TIME THE NHL expands, dozens of players get an opportunity to show their previous team it was wrong for giving up on them. And no player benefitted more from expansion than Wes Walz. When the Minnesota Wild were preparing to enter the league in 2000, Walz was in his fourth season in Switzerland after failing to launch in the NHL. “I was ready to ride off into the sunset and play the rest of my career in Europe,” he said. “Then Doug Risebrough called.” Risebrough was the Wild’s first GM and knew Walz from when the Calgary native was living what turned out to be a short dream with his hometown Flames. Risebrough wanted Walz to come to Minnesota, and the former junior scoring star said yes to the challenge. Walz…


REDDEN’S REVIVAL
THE NASHVILLE PREDATORS made a remarkable run to the 2017 Stanley Cup final, and the sudden national spotlight on the franchise drew some relatively forgotten names out of the shadows, including Wade Redden’s. He’d joined the team as assistant director of player development a year earlier. Once an impact player in a Canadian NHL market, his career ended up being divided into two chapters. The first was highly successful. The second found him buried, hidden from mainstream hockey consciousness, demoted to the minors despite possessing an NHL-worthy skill set. More than two decades have elapsed since the New York Islanders made Redden the 1995 draft’s No. 2 overall selection and then flipped him to the Ottawa Senators in a blockbuster trade for No. 1 pick Bryan Berard in January 1996. Redden,…