Most iconic numbers in National Hockey League history – Part 14
Montreal Canadiens: No.5
The No. 5 of Montreal Canadiens, Bernie Geoffrion, did a great job for the Canadian team. He spent his entire career with Canadiens after being acquired by the team in 1950.
He spent significant time with Canadiens and ended his journey with the team after he announced retirement in 1964. He had a great career to ponder over during which he played 766 games.
Out of the many games he played, he scored 371 goals and ended his career with 388 assists, tallying a total of 759 points.
There are quite a few awards that he came across due to the game changing and hard working performances that he put in.
Geoffrion received the Calder Memorial Trophy in 1952. His career witnessed him winning the Art Ross Trophy on two occasions in 1955 and 1961.
However, the highlight of his career, without any doubt, is the multiple times that he won the Stanley Cup.
Canadiens won the Stanley Cup six times during his stay with the team in 1953, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959 and 1960.
He also received the Hart Memorial Trophy in 1961.
He was another one of the players in the National Hockey League who had his No. 5 jersey retired after he decided to part ways with ice hockey as a player.
He was ranked as the 42nd player in the list of 100 greatest ice hockey players that was made in 1998.
During the course of his career with Canadiens, Geoffrion was able to achieve another feat that was of becoming the second player in the NHL to score 50 goals during a single season.
He showed his dominance on ice by becoming one of the few men in the league to score 5 goals in a single game on the 19th of February 1955 and was also inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1972.
He is also said to have invented the slapshot and saved the puck with which he scored the 270th goal for Canadiens during his prime.
Boston Bruins: No. 77
Ray Bourque is another one of the players to be included in the list.
He wore the No. 77 jersey in Bruins and was brought into the team as an eighth overall draft pick in 1979.
He ended his journey with Bruins after being traded away to Colorado Avalanche in 2000, where he spent two seasons.
During his long 21-year career with Bruins, he played in 1518 games in which he scored 395 goals and bagged 1111 assists to score a total of 1506 points.
He was one of the most dominating men in the team who leads the team when it comes to the overall assists, points, power-play goals and plus/minus ratings.
There are a lot of awards and achievements that he came across during his time with the team.
He won the Norris Trophy in 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1994. He made it into the National Hockey League All Star team on several occasions.
One of the several awards that he came across was the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award for the All Star Game that he won in 1996.
The list of players that ranked the top 100 greatest players in ice hockey placed him in the 14th spot and was the highest ranked player in the list not to win a Stanley Cup.
He was also inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004.
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