NHL: Who was your 1st Hockey idol??

Question

Growing up you had to have a "first" favorite,love or Idol....Who was it?

Answer 1

Steve Yzerman!

Answer 2

steve yzerman

im 17 and ive been playing since i was 6 and i always loved how steve yzerman played the game. ive always dreamt of playing on his wing and getting a pretty goal from one of his amazing passes but that will never happen. im prud to say i have worn his number all 11 years ive played and ive gone through a lot to get it.. lol i had to fight one of my teammates to get it and im proud to say ive also repd his "c" on my jersey for the last 5 years

Answer 3

it was jari kurri but then i encountered chris pronger who is the meaning of a hockey player.

BOOM

Answer 4

Guy Lafleur.  Those late Seventies Canadiens teams were the perfect bunch to show me what hockey was all about, and he was their biggest star, a high-scoring charismatic star who never let it go to his head.

Answer 5

Guy LaFleur, without question. I could watch him tape a stick and be enthralled! hehe

He scored one of the prettiest goals I ever saw against Hartford late in his career. The Habs were making a line change and Guy was 1 on 2 against the Whalers D...at the red line he flipped the puck around his back between the two D, then literally jumped around the surprised left D to pick up the loose puck and race in on a breakaway to score. The only time I have ever seen a player make a breakaway pass to himself.

I hated Jacques Lemaire for cutting Guy's icetime so much after he took over as head coach.

Answer 6

As far as I can remember, Felix Potvin. But there was another Leafs goalie before him...Jeff Reese backed him up....can't remember his name for the life of me right now. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Grant Fuhr.

Answer 7

well, i just started watching hockey, and id consider myself still growing up so alot of players are my idols my first was Tuomo Ruutu

Answer 8

When I was growing up it was, Gilbert Perrault(Sabres)

Answer 9

Patrick Roy when he payed for the Habs!

Answer 10

Adam Graves... Sorry JO.

Followed Closely by John Leclair.

**2eighty8- Ken Wregget?

Answer 11

Sergei Samsanov.

When I first started playing he was one of the few players I knew of. I'd always wear number 14, and I still like that number to this day. I'd try and skate like him and do those fancy moves, but I basically just stickhandled a little faster and those were my "moves". I play nothing like him, as a matter of fact I'm a 15 year old girl and I'm probably bigger than him, that guys is tiny. Speed is not my game, and obviously it is his game. I'd call myself more of a power forward than anything else, and obviously Sergei Samsanov is not. But I tried to be like him so badly. I always loved the guy and I can remember when he was traded. They got rid of 2 of my favorites in a flash. Batman and Robin both left, and I don't think Samsanov ever lived up to his full potential. But..hey watcha gonna do. I loved the guy.

Answer 12

From the time I was a little kid and watching hockey with my grandpa. I liked to watch Gordie Howe. But I really remember him more from clips that I watch now. I was just a little , little kid then. Also Any player on the 1980 Miracle on Ice team made a huge impression on me. Still do to this day

Answer 13

Guy Lafleur - still have a CCM Maska jersey with my last name on the back and "Le Demon Blond"s #10. Saved up for months to get that done as I got 3$ / week allowance. It barely fits as a t-shirt anymore but a wonderful momento of my youth.

Answer 14

T.J Oshie. He played collegefor the UND Fighting Sioux. He just left the Sioux and got drafted to the St. Louis Blues. He was a Hobey Baker Nominee.

Answer 15

my first hockey idol was Maurice Richard, even though i couldn't see him 'live' ive seen many many of his best moments and everything.. :)

Answer 16

" The Great One" Wayne Gretzky

Answer 17

Mike Ricci...that guy went in every night to do his job. never took a shift off never took a day off. One tough guy...just look at his smile

Answer 18

Gretzky and Sundin! two great player that have so much skill. i will never forget the ways they play hockey!

Answer 19

Maurice Richard.

My dad always use to show me older footage of the Canadiens games,

and that's how he became my idol.

My second idol is of course Mario Lemieux,

I actually got to see him play.

Third idol is Saku Koivu, I have a lot of respect for him.

Answer 20

Alexander Mogilny. i always wore number 89 while playing to be like him. I like Arturs Irbe as well. have both their jerseys.

Answer 21

Pavel Bure. I loved watching him play while I was growing up.

Answer 22

Got to say it was my father.  The whole reason why I got involved in the game.

Answer 23

Favorite..Bobby Clarke and Pelle Lindbergh.Thank you for making me show my age J.O.

288-Was it Peter Ing?

Answer 24

Mario Lemieux. He was my first favorite, my first love, and my first idol.

It was him who got me turned on to the sport. It was him who I always looked up to like he was a God.

EDIT: Mark Recchi and Jaromir Jagr are two very close seconds. Mario, Mark, and Jaromir.

EDIT: And about three years ago Saku Koivu became one. I have so much respect for that man it isn't even funny. If I could meet one hockey player it would be him. I wish every person could have as much courage as he does.

......It was actualy two years ago. When he got the eye injury against Carolina. I had always liked him, but that moment he became one of my heroes.

Answer 25

Growing up a Sabres fan, I would have to say Clint Malarchuck.  Guy had his throat slashed by a skate blade while playing in Buffalo, but did not let it stop his love for the game.

Answer 26

steve yzerman of the Red Wings. He , to me, envisioned everything a hockey player stood for and he was one of the toughest players.

Answer 27

probably Steve Yzerman, I grew up watching the Red Wings and I just loved him and the Wings

Answer 28

My first favorite was Eric Staal. he is still one of my favorites.

Answer 29

Being a life-long Sabres, my first Hockey idol was Gilbert Perreault.  I never got to see the French Connection play together but I did get to see Gilbert play countless times.  Besides  being quick-like-lightning, and slicker-than-snot, he does a mean Elvis impersonation too.

Answer 30

I watched Bobby Orr from day 1 of his career so it's a toss up between him and Rod Gilbert although as a goalie for years, Terry Sawchuck was my idol.

Answer 31

Probably Brodeur, being a Devils fan.  Other than Scott Stevens and Niedermayer, he was pretty much the only one I knew about when I was little.  Now it's Gionta.