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Is Eric Stall headed for the Hall of Fame?



Is Eric Stall headed for the Hall of Fame?

by Only-Reels

29 Comments

  1. sufferfest3163

    If Pavelski isn’t getting in (that seemed to be the general consensus here), then E. Staal certainly won’t either.

  2. If it were up to me, bigots wouldn’t be cemented into a hall of fame

  3. KrazyMoose

    Good question!

    Here’s another good question.

    Are you f’n serious?

  4. Present_Program_2344

    1k points, 455 goals, stanley cup, olympic gold medal, 6x all star. probably.

    the bar should be higher for hof imo but it’s a good enough resume compared to others in.

  5. Hungry_Definition450

    Pavelski did nothing, no cups, no individual awards, zilch. The hype around him was crazy.

    At least Staal won a cup and a gold medal.

  6. MartiniAfternoon

    Knowing the HoF: Staal will be a first ballot guy while ignoring Mogilny for another 15 years.

  7. AvailableQuiet7819

    He will be remembered as a top NHLer in his era but not a HOF. HOF players are outliers statistically. They’re guys that actively changed the game during their time in the league, achieved greatness. Staal is an A player, but he’s in that category with Tavares and Palevski, Where they were huge impact players that were just below the standard of a HoF. Think about some of the recent HoF additions and consider how a player matches to the career of the inductees. Loved Staal’s game but he wasn’t a Jagr, Sakic, Madano, Federov, Foresberg, and so on. Of this last couple decades, the class I would imagine that will be inducted are Crosby Ovy Datsyuk Marchand Malkin Letang toews p.Kane and so on, that caliber of guys Staal doesn’t fit. He’s just below their performances and well below their career impact on the game. And considering the class after that of guys like McDavid MacKinnon Mathew’s Bedard Etc, he’s definitely not in the caliber seen so far for this era. If Staal got the honor, I would expect Tavares Benn and Pavelski to get it and all of them I don’t see it right now, and I’m a huge fan of those guys. I would imagine Parise would get it before Staal, and I’m a bit questioning Parise due to these last 5-8 years in the league.

  8. AppropriateGrand6992

    1300+ games, won the Stanley Cup, Olympic Gold, he has a better case for the hall than others

  9. Secure-Mechanic-4608

    only two players left from before 2004 now, Fleury and Burns

  10. He’s not a Hall of Famer in my books, but there are worse players in the Hall of Fame so he’ll probably get in

  11. luckytaurus

    No way he gets in. He’ll be inducted into the Cane’s hall of fame but not the NHL hall of fame

  12. Shiny_Mew76

    1K Points, Stanley Cup, Olympic Gold, 6X All Star, 400 Goal Club, Team Captain? That’s gotta be HOF, especially if Shea Weber got in.

  13. Boring_Pace5158

    With Staal and Joe Pavelski, we need to take the lockouts and COVID into consideration. Both of these guys are super close to 500, Staal at 455 and Pavelski at 476. If there were no League stoppages, they would have cleared 500, making them guaranteed for the Hall.

  14. HardOyler

    He likely will get in but fuck him and his brothers

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