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Mario Lemieux spent his entire playing career with the Pittsburgh Penguins, scoring 1723 points in 915 games. He won 6 Art Ross Trophies, 3 Hart Trophies and 2 Stanley Cups as a player, overcoming back surgery and a Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis along the way.

Sidney Crosby has centred the Pittsburgh Penguins for his entire career, captaining all three of the club's recent Stanley Cup wins in 2009, 2016 and 2017. He has 2 Hart Trophies, 2 Art Ross Trophies, 2 Conn Smythe Trophies and scored Canada's golden goal at the 2010 Olympics.

Jean Beliveau captained the Montreal Canadiens through a decade of dominance, winning 10 Stanley Cups as a player and 7 more as a team executive afterward. He collected 2 Hart Trophies and was the inaugural winner of the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1965.

Mark Messier played centre for the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks, winning 6 Stanley Cups and 2 Hart Trophies. He remains the only player to captain two different franchises to a championship, finishing with 1887 career points.

Connor McDavid centres the Edmonton Oilers and is the fastest skater in the sport's history. He has won 6 Art Ross Trophies and 3 Hart Trophies, including a 153-point season in 2022-23, the highest single-season total since Mario Lemieux in 1996.

Centre for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1920s and 1930s, also skating briefly for Chicago and the New York Rangers. Nicknamed the Stratford Streak, he won three Hart Trophies and three Stanley Cups and is credited with popularising the sport in the United States before his death in 1937 from injuri...

Long-serving centre and captain of the Detroit Red Wings for his entire 22 season career. He scored 1,755 points, won three Stanley Cups and took the 1998 Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP after transforming from a pure scorer into the league's model two-way leader.

Centre who played for Chicago, Boston and the New York Rangers. He was the first NHL player to reach 100 points in a season and the first to score 76 goals in one, winning five Art Ross Trophies, two Hart Trophies and two Stanley Cups with Boston.

Slovak-born centre who played his whole NHL career with the Chicago Black Hawks. He won four Art Ross Trophies, two Hart Trophies and a Stanley Cup, and remains the only player to sweep the Hart, Art Ross and Lady Byng in the same season, doing it in back-to-back years.

Centre for Detroit, Los Angeles and the New York Rangers who scored 1,771 points, currently sixth on the NHL's all-time list, and won the 1980 Art Ross Trophy. He never reached a Stanley Cup final despite that scoring output across an 18 season career.

Centre who captained the Philadelphia Flyers to back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975. He won three Hart Trophies while managing type 1 diabetes, a condition doctors once considered disqualifying for a professional athlete.

Centre who led the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche for 21 seasons, scoring 1,641 points. He won a Hart Trophy, a Conn Smythe Trophy and two Stanley Cups, and was named MVP of the 2002 Winter Olympics as Canada won gold.

Defenceman turned centre who won eight Stanley Cups, four with Detroit and four with Toronto, making him one of the rare players to win a Cup at both positions. He was the first winner of the Norris Trophy, taking it in 1954.

Swedish centre who starred for the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche, later playing for Philadelphia and Nashville. He won a Hart Trophy, an Art Ross Trophy and two Stanley Cups, and scored the winning shootout goal that gave Sweden the 1994 Olympic gold.

Trottier centered the New York Islanders through their four-peat dynasty from 1980 to 1983, then added two more Stanley Cups with Pittsburgh. He won the Hart Trophy and Art Ross Trophy in 1979 and the Conn Smythe in 1980, and his two-way play made him the defensive conscience of an offensive powerho...

MacKinnon has driven the Colorado Avalanche since being drafted first overall in 2013, pairing elite skating speed with one of the heaviest workloads in the league. He won the Hart Trophy in 2024 and the Stanley Cup in 2022, and by 2026 had passed 1,100 career points without missing his prime years...

Modano spent most of his career centering the North Stars and Dallas Stars franchise, scoring 561 goals and 1,374 points, both the most by any American-born player in NHL history. He led Dallas to the 1999 Stanley Cup, playing through a broken wrist in the final, and later entered the Hockey Hall of...

Schmidt centered Boston's Kraut Line and won the Hart Trophy in 1951 and the Art Ross Trophy in 1940, plus two Stanley Cups in 1939 and 1941. He lost three prime seasons, 1942 to 1945, to military service in a Canadian bomber squadron alongside linemates Bobby Bauer and Woody Dumart.

Apps captained the Toronto Maple Leafs to three Stanley Cups and won the first Calder Trophy ever awarded, in 1937. A national-class pole vaulter who placed sixth at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he was also so disciplined on the ice that he took only 56 penalty minutes across his entire 12-season caree...

Malkin has centered the Pittsburgh Penguins since 2006, winning three Stanley Cups alongside the 2012 Hart Trophy, two Art Ross Trophies and the 2009 Conn Smythe as playoff MVP. Much of his career has run in parallel with Sidney Crosby on the same roster, which has not stopped him from being one of...

Richard spent his entire 20-season career centering the Montreal Canadiens and won the Stanley Cup 11 times, the most of any player in NHL history. Younger brother of Maurice Richard, he built his own Hall of Fame legacy separate from his sibling's, anchoring Montreal through two distinct dynasty er...

Sergei Fedorov left CSKA Moscow to become one of the Detroit Red Wings' cornerstone centers, winning the Hart Trophy in 1994, two Selke Trophies for defensive play, and three Stanley Cups in 1997, 1998 and 2002. He finished with 483 goals and 1,179 points and entered the Hall of Fame in 2015.

Auston Matthews has centered the Toronto Maple Leafs since winning the Calder Trophy in 2017, adding the Hart Trophy in 2022 and three Rocket Richard Trophies. His 69 goals in 2023-24 broke the salary-cap-era single-season record, and he has since become the franchise's all-time leading goal scorer.

Igor Larionov centered the Soviet Union's dominant KLM line and CSKA's Green Unit before moving to the NHL, where he won three Stanley Cups with Detroit in 1997, 1998 and 2002. He also pushed back publicly against the Soviet hockey system's control over players, helping open the door for Soviet athl...

Dale Hawerchuk won the Calder Trophy in 1982 after a 103-point rookie season with the Winnipeg Jets, then carried thin Jets rosters to six 100-point seasons. He finished with 1,409 career points across stops in Buffalo, St. Louis and Philadelphia, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2001.

Gilbert Perreault spent his entire 17-season career with the Buffalo Sabres, centering the celebrated French Connection line with Rick Martin and Rene Robert. His elegant stickhandling produced 1,326 points and a trip to the 1975 Stanley Cup Final, and he entered the Hall of Fame in 1990.

Vsevolod Bobrov starred for CSKA Moscow and the Soviet national ice hockey team, winning Olympic gold at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Games. He is one of the rare athletes to compete at both the Winter and Summer Olympics, having also captained the Soviet football team at the 1952 Games, and he later...

Darryl Sittler captained the Toronto Maple Leafs through the 1970s and set an NHL record that still stands, six goals and four assists for ten points in a single game against Boston on February 7, 1976. He finished with 1,121 career points and was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989.

Peter Stastny defected from Czechoslovakia in 1980 and became one of the NHL's top centres with the Quebec Nordiques, later playing for New Jersey and St. Louis. He finished with 1,239 career points, won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1981, and entered the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998.