Can you name the six NHL players who have had their jersey number retired by two teams?

Team	Player	Team
Chicago Blackhawks		Winnipeg Jets
Detroit Red Wings		Hartford Whalers
Edmonton Oilers		Los Angeles Kings
Boston Bruins		Colorado Avalanche
New York Rangers		Edmonton Oilers
Colorado Avalanche		Montreal Canadiens

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NHL Two Team Retired Jerseys Quiz

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Published: February 25th, 2009
Category: Sports
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Tags: Numbers Quizzes, NHL Quizzes, player, retired, six, jersey, team

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	moegoldberg:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 17:43 GMT	3 points
	The Rangers/Oilers guy - using his last name only is not accepted, and it should be.

	greggyd717:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 17:44 GMT	0 points
	Yeah you need to be able to put in his last name, what's up with that?

	gopaladins:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	-4 points
	robbed of 100% by a glitch. and i know nothing about hockey.

	samifan24:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	0 points
	Game does not accept Messier as an answer.

	SporcleAdmin:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT	9 points
	Fixed, sorry. I guess I will have to wait before they retire my jersey

	mkgrenwel:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 18:39 GMT	-3 points
	Giving the teams makes this a lot easier than necessary.

	Kicking222:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 18:58 GMT	0 points
	@mkgrenwel: I disagree- without the team names, you might as well just guess every good hockey player ever. Of course, even in three minutes, you might guess all of them except the Bruins/Avalanche player, anyway. As it stands, I'm happy with my five- the only guy I missed was the first one, and I probably would've gotten him through guessing, but I was too happy about actually knowing the other ones to bother. Also, shouldn't the Oilers/Kings player have an asterisk or something, since his number has technically been retired by every team?

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 19:07 GMT	5 points
	Kicking, why do you say one might not guess the Bruins/Avalanche player? Is he not considered as great as the others? I don't really pay attention to hockey but I've always known who he was.

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	SaraB:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 20:04 GMT	3 points
	You can't just put Messier because there was more than one in the league at the time (Eric played for the Avalanche). Just my guess

	mkgrenwel:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT	2 points
	@kicking: No, without the names, you might as well be rewarded for knowing the answers to the quiz. Maybe just giving one team as a hint would still give you a little direction without giving it all away? Also, what are you talking about saying Bourque isn't as notable as the others? He's widely considered one of the best defenseman of all time.

	Hugo_Whitfield:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 21:56 GMT	8 points
	@Brandon: Ray Bourque is considered one of the top defensemen of all time along with Paul Coffey, Doug Harvey, Bobby Orr. Bourque was one of the best defensemen of his generation. I put him in the same class as those guys. They all defined their eras.

	DerKomissar:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT	3 points
	6/6. Go Avalanche!!! I don't know why we retired Ray Bourque's number, considering he only spent one season with the team, but he did help us win the championship, so.....

	Fongolia:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 22:43 GMT	2 points
	Yay, my first 100 percent-er on the first try in months.

	sammyhain2364:	Feb 25th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT	4 points
	Giving the teams and the quiz being as long as it was time wise made it extremely easy for us hockey fans. But I can also see why you did what you did to give the hockey layperson a chance. It would be nice on some quizzes if the quiz taker had the option of taking an easy version of the quiz or a more difficult version where the time is shortened and give less information.

	Kicking222:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 00:15 GMT	7 points
	@Bourque supporters: I agree completely- Bourque is one of the best defensemen ever, and one of the most important players of the past quarter-century. I'm a Bourque fan, and I'll even admit to tearing up when he finally lifted the Cup- and I'm a Devils fan! Believe me, I wasn't making the point that he isn't a great player. My point was that if you were to randomly think of hockey players' names, among the first ones to come to mind would probably be Gretzky, Howe, and Messier, but probably not be Bourque. Additionally, if the team names weren't given, it wouldn't be hard for a hockey fan to say to him/herself, "OK, Gretzky was huge in Edmonton and LA... Roy was huge in Montreal and Colorado." However, Bourque played 94 of his 1612 career NHL games for the Avs, so especially in regards to this quiz, someone who isn't a hardcore hockey fan would probably never think of him.

	sammyhain2364:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 00:49 GMT	5 points
	My favourite Bourque moment was when he was still with the Bruins and they retired Phil Esposito's uniform number 7 which at that time happened to be Bourque's number as well. Bourque skated over to Espo in his number 7 took it off to reveal his new number of 77. Here he was a superstar in his own right showing respect towards those that played the game before him.

	StephenM:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 00:58 GMT	4 points
	Great game, but a bit too much time if you ask me.

	Edge:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 02:42 GMT	2 points
	For a very casual hockey fan, I feel good with getting all but the least-gotten response (Blackhawks/Jets guy)

	drhaase:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 06:34 GMT	2 points
	if Ray Bourque isn't one of the first names you think of when you think about hockey then you just don't watch much hockey. you talk about those other guys and how they score more than Bourque...well that is because they were forwards. and for the record no defenceman in NHL history has scored more points than Bourque. i hate the Bruins, but any hockey fan will tell you that Ray Bourque is synonymous with hockey. especially with the Bruins team name being up there.

	drhaase:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 06:35 GMT	2 points
	and i'm a Devils fan too...this is the year...

	Etheridge2:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 14:29 GMT	3 points
	Well I'm not a huge hockey fan and with both teams I knew them all right away..I would suggest just giving one team as a hint or allowing people to ask for the hints or not like they do with the super bowl quiz i think

	bag_a_chips:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 17:10 GMT	3 points
	done with 2 1/2 minutes to spare!! good quiz.

	sethmurphy:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 19:21 GMT	3 points
	24 seconds to ace it first time, this one is a bit easy, and i am not a hockey nut in any way.... but an interesting quiz none the less

	Bradley:	Feb 27th, 2009 at 19:45 GMT	6 points
	isn't Gretzky technically retired by all teams?

	Morbo:	Feb 27th, 2009 at 23:09 GMT	2 points
	@drhaase: Others have said it, but the reasons people wouldn't put Bourque on this list are 1) He only played one or two seasons with the Avs; it's unusual for a team to retire a guy's number based on that. And 2) He's not a "household name" like the other five on this list.

	fatbeard:	Feb 28th, 2009 at 23:30 GMT	1 point
	@Hugo_Whitfield: there's no doubt that Bourque is one of the best defenseman of all time, but you want the best defenseman of all time, you have to think Orr, Bourque, Potvin and Shore. Harvey is up there, as is Scott Stevens, Lidstrom and Al Macinnis. To say Paul Coffey is a good defenseman is to say playing defense is not part of the criteria. He was a great goal scorer and had a great offensive mind, yes, but that is where his abilities ended.

	Cat_Girl:	Mar 14th, 2009 at 21:15 GMT	1 point
	I had no trouble coming up with Ray Bourque, but I was a Bruins fan. It's just a shame he had to go to Denver to win his Stanley Cup.

	drhaase:	Mar 16th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT	2 points
	@ Ernest, i agree with your first point about him barely playing for the Avs...but i do consider him a household name. i think a lot of people here forget just how big Ray Bourque was.

	eostby:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 19:26 GMT	1 point
	I love how thinking Brett Hull's number may have been retired by two teams accidentally gave me the one answer I didn't know.

	amkirby10:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 22:36 GMT	0 points
	I only missed Mark Messier

	robkirst80:	Mar 27th, 2010 at 18:57 GMT	3 points
	Tim Horton has his number retired by Buffalo and Toronto

	jace29:	Jun 6th, 2010 at 00:52 GMT	1 point
	6/6 in 55 seconds... i am a scholar of the sport though... should have gotten them all

	troutlooker:	Aug 3rd, 2010 at 16:43 GMT	-1 points
	Where's number fou? O Bobby O? (please say with Bwoston accent) I believe Chicago retired his number too.

	paca:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 00:01 GMT	1 point
	@troutlooker, nope, number 4 still used by chicago (this year Hjalmarsson).

	nayanookeesic:	Aug 16th, 2010 at 03:57 GMT	3 points
	hortons number is honoured in toronto...not retired

	mitchconn:	Oct 25th, 2010 at 01:32 GMT	1 point
	The Blackhawks have not retired Orr's #4...and he never should have been on any other team besides the Bruins if it weren't for his a-hole of an agent Alan Eagleson. Eagleson was so despicable, the Hockey Hall of Fame took away his Hall of Fame induction status.

	mitchconn:	Oct 25th, 2010 at 01:35 GMT	1 point
	@ Robkirst: You're exactly correct, here's what I found on wikipedia: Horton wore the number 7 while playing for the Leafs, the same number worn by King Clancy from 1931–32 to 1936–37. The team declared both Horton and Clancy honoured players at a ceremony on November 21, 1995, but did not retire the number 7 from team use; instead, it became an Honoured Jersey Number.[3] abiding by Leafs honours policy.[4] Horton wore number 2 in Buffalo (as Rick Martin already had the number 7), which was retired.

	EpicWinFTW:	Oct 30th, 2010 at 01:24 GMT	2 points
	I'm really surprised that I got all of these. I don't even watch hockey.

	Glass9:	Nov 24th, 2010 at 01:52 GMT	2 points
	I'm just gonna say this... Bourque's jersey should not be retired by the Avalanche. He was a second-pair defenceman with the team for a year and a half with Colorado. With Boston on the other hand...