Who wore number 43 in NHL?

Athletes in every team sport have a number on their jersey to identify them. In the NHL, players are given numbers between 1 and 98. Sometimes, players get to choose their own number and other times, they’re just assigned a number by the team.

Nazem Kadri

Nazem Samir Kadri is a Canadian professional ice hockey player known as the centre for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs seventh overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He played his junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), first with the Kitchener Rangers and then the London Knights. He won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with Kitchener and was part of the Rangers team that lost to the Spokane Chiefs in the final of the 2008 Memorial Cup. Kadri has also represented Canada internationally at the 2010 World Junior Championships, where the team received the silver medal after losing the final to the United States 6–5.

From the beginning of the 2012–13 season to March 21, 2016, Kadri led the NHL in the number of penalties drawn with 164, 46 more than the second-placed player, Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings.

Martin Biron

Martin Gaston Biron is a Canadian American former professional ice hockey goaltender.

Drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the first round (16th overall) of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, he spent the first half of his 16-year National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Sabres, later having stints with the Philadelphia Flyers, New York Islanders, and New York Rangers. He is also known as a television analyst with the Sabres on MSG Western New York.

His younger brother Mathieu played 250 games in the NHL as a defenceman.

Philippe Boucher

Philippe Boucher is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League. He is also known as the general manager of the Drummondville Voltigeurs of the QMJHL. He served as GM with the Quebec Remparts and the Rimouski Oceanic.

Patrice Brisebois

Joseph Jean-Guy Patrice Brisebois is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman for the Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche, playing nearly 900 games with the former and 1,009 games overall. Brisebois also was the Canadiens’ Director of Player Development.

Helmut Balderis

Helmuts Balderis-Sildedzis is a Latvian former ice hockey player. He played right wing, participated in the Soviet team’s losing effort in the Miracle on Ice, and played part of a single season in the NHL after being drafted in 1989 by the Minnesota North Stars, becoming one of the oldest players to be drafted by an NHL team at the age of 36.

Matt Bartkowski

Matthew Richard Bartkowski is an American professional ice hockey defenseman known for playing with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League (AHL).

Maxim Bets

Maxim Nikolaevich Bets is a Russian former professional ice hockey player who played three games in the National Hockey League for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Mathieu Biron

Mathieu Biron is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played over 250 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). After retiring as a hockey player, he became a firefighter.

Dennis Bonvie

Dennis Kevin Bonvie is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, most notable for being one of the most penalized players in professional hockey history with 4,804 career professional career penalty minutes (most of it being in the American Hockey League). He is also known as a pro scout for the NHL’s Boston Bruins.

Marc-Andre Bourdon

Marc-André Bourdon is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is also known as an assistant coach for the Liberty University Flames Division 1 ACHA Hockey team. He played for the Philadelphia Flyers during 2011–12 NHL season. Bourdon was selected by the Flyers in the third round (67th overall) of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

Darryl Boyce

Darryl Boyce is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played with the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Columbus Blue Jackets in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Christopher Breen

Christopher Breen is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He played with the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League (AHL). An undrafted player, Breen originally joined the Calgary Flames organization in 2010 and made his NHL debut with the team in 2013. He was later signed by the Boston Bruins as a free agent on July 1, 2014.

Benoit Brunet

Joseph Jean Luc Benoît Brunet is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the second round, 27th overall, of the 1986 NHL Entry Draft.

Ryan Caldwell

Ryan Caldwell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey. During the 2005–06 season he played two games for the New York Islanders and two more in the 2007–08 season for the Phoenix Coyotes.

Jeff Daniels

Jeffrey Dwayne Daniels is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, also known as an assistant coach to the Carolina Hurricanes. He was the former head coach and general manager of the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League. In 2010–11, Daniels led the Charlotte Checkers to 44 wins and 94 points during the regular-season, the best totals for a Carolina affiliate since 2004–05. Daniels then guided the Checkers to the Eastern Conference Final, the deepest Calder Cup playoff run for Carolina’s AHL team since the 1996–97 Springfield Falcons.

Daniels spent four seasons with the Hurricanes as an assistant coach. He helped guide the Hurricanes to the 2006 Stanley Cup championship, marking the second time he captured the Stanley Cup in his hockey career, as he also has his name inscribed on the Cup as a player with the 1992 Pittsburgh Penguins.

As a youth, he played in the 1981 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Oshawa. He later played junior ice hockey with his hometown Oshawa Generals.

Daniels was selected by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the sixth round, 109th overall in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. He has two Stanley Cup rings with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991, and 1992. Daniels’ name was engraved on the Cup in 1992, even though he only played two games, and did not qualify to be on the Stanley Cup. In his 15-year professional playing career as a forward, Daniels spent time with the Pittsburgh, Florida, Nashville and Carolina organizations.

He played in 425 NHL regular-season games, scoring 17 goals and 26 assists (43 points), and 41 Stanley Cup Playoff games, where he totalled three goals and five assists (8 points). He played in the Hurricanes organization for six seasons, tallying eight goals and 12 assists (20 points) in 272 regular season games, and three assists in 29 playoff games, while making a trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2002.

Kale Clague

Kale Clague is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the second round, 51st overall, of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

Prior to becoming a professional ice hockey player, Clague described himself as “an offensive defenseman who sees the ice well and someone who works hard at defending in my own end.” Leading up to the 2016 NHL Entry Draft, scout John Williams described him as “an excellent skater” who “has excellent vision when moving the puck, makes a solid first pass out of the zone and is a composed player who makes good choices under pressure”. Clague has compared his playing style to that of Drew Doughty.

Jan Čaloun

Jan Čaloun is a Czech former professional hockey player. He is 178 cm (5’11”) tall, 80 kg (176 lb) in weight. He shoots right and plays right wing. He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the fourth round, 75th overall in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft. Čaloun experienced success at the minor pro level, playing for the Kansas City Blades and Kentucky Thoroughblades, but was unable to make the big jump to the NHL. However, he did manage to score goals on his first four shots while playing for the Sharks. In 1998 he was a member of the Czech Olympic Team, which won the gold medal in Nagano.

Andrew Cassels

Andrew William Cassels is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens, Hartford Whalers, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Washington Capitals. He is a former assistant coach with the Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL. Cassels was born and raised in Bramalea, Ontario, where he played his minor hockey. His son, Cole, was drafted 85th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.