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Greatest US-born NHLer of all time?

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Modano?
LeClair?
Leetch?
Chelios?

Roenick?
Mark Howe?
Other?

I'm leaning towards Chelios myself. Leader, hard-nosed gamer, great guy in the room and a seemingly inexhaustible will to win.

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Chelios. Skill, longevity, and accomplishments are unrivaled among American-born players. Leetch and Modano are up there, too, but like others have said, Modano was never the greatest at his position, so it's hard for him to take away the top spot from Chelios, who was.

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Hate to say it but Patrick Kane will be up there at the end of his career. He is 26 and already have 600 points in the NHL, and has 2 cups in which he had HUGE parts of (winning goal, and a couple series clinching goals). He also should have a Conn Smythe but Toews cried his way to the 2010 one which he disappeared for the last 2 series.

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Modano?

LeClair?

Leetch?

Chelios?

Roenick?

Mark Howe?

Other?

I'm leaning towards Chelios myself. Leader, hard-nosed gamer, great guy in the room and a seemingly inexhaustible will to win.

In this order:

Chelios, Modano, Hull, Roenick. Kane will surpass Roenick by time his career is over, but will still be behind Chelios, Modano and Hull. I am not saying that Kane won't finish with more points than Modo, but for a long time Modo played with some inept Minnesota teams, Kane has had a an all star team for pretty much his entire career. I love JR, but once he got traded, he wasn't quite as dominant as he was in Chicago. The same would happen for Kane, I am afraid, so he better hope he never gets traded. Also I would like to add that I think Kane is better than any of the other mentioned US born players...and no Lafontaine is does not belong on that list, neither does Carson.

Chelios

Modano

Hull

Roenick

...with Kane coming up fast.

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Chelios.

Not even close.


Modano followed by Chelli

LOL. Madonna is not in Chelios' league.

One is a top 10 all time defensemen, the other would be lucky to be a top 50 all time forward.


My vote is Modano

Based one what? Having a higher overall in video games in the late 90's?

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Chelios.

Not even close.

LOL. Madonna is not in Chelios' league.

One is a top 10 all time defensemen, the other would be lucky to be a top 50 all time forward.

Based one what? Having a higher overall in video games in the late 90's?

Dude but that hair...

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Chelios, hands down. Three Cups, three Norris trophies, the plus-minus award, the leadership award, all-rookie team, first team all-star five times, second team all-star two times. Named to the all-star game 11 times. 1651 GP, 185 G, 763 A, 948 P, +350, 2891 PIM regular season, 266 GP, 31 G, 113 A, 144 P, 408 PIM playoffs.

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Chelios, hands down. Three Cups, three Norris trophies, the plus-minus award, the leadership award, all-rookie team, first team all-star five times, second team all-star two times. Named to the all-star game 11 times. 1651 GP, 185 G, 763 A, 948 P, +350, 2891 PIM regular season, 266 GP, 31 G, 113 A, 144 P, 408 PIM playoffs.

When is his son draft eligible ?

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I hope you demoted Hull here for being born in Canada.

Otherwise I have to assume you've committed some horrific crime and now you're trying to prepare your insanity defense...

Ya, after I responded, I realized the it was US BORN players, but left it becase he is a US player...I do believe he and Modo are on par with each other, but again, just like Kane, Hull played with much better players (not taking anything away from Hull whatsoever) and Modo pretty much carried Minnesota for his first few seasons. If Hull and Modo were switched in order, no biggie...

Chelly, Hull, Modano, Kane is agreeable when it all shakes out years from now...

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