NHL Players

Many NHL players are from the United States, Canada, or Eastern Europe.  As of the 2008-2009 season, there are NHL players from 18 different countries, and over half of NHL players are from Canada.

A few notable NHL players that are currently active are:

NHL forwards with most goals scored from 2008-2009

  1. Evgeni Malkin
  2. Alexander Ovechkin
  3. Sidney Crosby
  4. Pavel Datsyuk
  5. Zach Parise

NHL players with most goals scored from 2008-2009

  1. Alexander Ovechkin
  2. Jeff Carter
  3. Zach Parise
  4. Ilya Kovalchuk

NHL defensemen with most goals scored from 2008-2009

  1. Mike Green
  2. Andrei Markov
  3. Nicklas Lidstrom
  4. Scott Niedermayer

Top NHL goaltenders from 2008-2009

  1. Miikka Kiprusoff
  2. Evgeni Nabokov
  3. Cam Ward
  4. Henrik Lundqvist
  5. Niklas Backstrom