Où sont passées les vedettes Québécoises de la LNH? To spare the inevitable rush to Google Translate, I will save you the time. NHL stars from Quebec...where have you gone? Follow the thread...Rocket Richard. Doug Harvey. Jacques Plante. Jean Beliveau. Boom Boom Geoffrion. Jean Ratelle. Serge Savard. Guy Lafleur. Gilbert Perreault. Marcel Dionne. Mike Bossy. Denis Savard. Ray Bourque. Patrick Roy. Mario Lemieux. Luc Robitaille. Martin Brodeur. Martin St. Louis. Patrice Bergeron. All-time greats.
One of the rarest accomplishments in sports was having your number retired by a team. Nowadays there are some questionable choices when it comes to finding players whose jersey will hang in the rafters. Some more than deserve the honor, others get it because their respective teams see it as a marketing ploy for an otherwise "very good" level player. A few seasons back we openly discussed if Marian Hossa deserved the honor from the Chicago Blackhawks.
Over parts of nine seasons in the NHL, Konopka played 346 games for seven teams. He is the most recent player in league history to record more than 300 penalty minutes in a season, doing so in 2010-11 while with the New York Islanders. Konopka also played a total of 303 games in the AHL and was recently named part of the Syracuse Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025 for his contributions to the Syracuse Crunch.
