Who wore number 50 in NHL?

What number you wear can often be a big part of a player’s hockey identity. Some players care more than others about the number they don, but even for those who are indifferent to them, those numbers help connect players with young fans and can even have sentimental value. Like it or not, numbers are a big part of what can make this game great.

Corey Crawford

Corey Crawford is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. Nicknamed “Crow” by teammates and fans, he played his entire professional career with the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), who selected him in the second round, 52nd overall, of the 2003 NHL Draft. Crawford made his NHL debut for Chicago in 2006 and played with the team through the 2019–20 NHL season. He won the Stanley Cup and William M. Jennings Trophy twice with the Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015.

Antoine Vermette

Antoine Vermette is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played for 14 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Vermette played in the NHL for the Ottawa Senators, Columbus Blue Jackets, Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks and Anaheim Ducks. Drafted in the second round, 55th overall in 2000 by Ottawa, Vermette was a member of the 2007 Senators team that appeared in the 2007 Stanley Cup Final. Vermette won the Stanley Cup in 2015 with the Chicago Blackhawks.

Jonas Gustavsson

Jonas Gustavsson also known by his nickname The Monster is a Swedish former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played for Linköping HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Gustavsson previously played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins and Edmonton Oilers in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Chris Mason

Christopher Robert Mason is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who last played with Augsburger Panther of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). He previously played for four different National Hockey League (NHL) teams. Mason is also known as the colour analyst covering Predators games broadcast on Bally Sports South.

Daniel Bång

Daniel Niklas Bång is a Swedish former professional ice hockey Right wing. He played 8 NHL games with the Nashville Predators but spend most of the 2012/13 season with their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate the Milwaukee Admirals. He played as a youth with Kista HC and AIK.

Bång has previously played for AIK of the Swedish top-tier league Elitserien (SEL). He signed a one-year, two-way contract with the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League (NHL) worth $0.7 million USD on 1 June 2012.

After signing a 1-year contract with Lausanne HC of the Swiss National League A (NLA) he signed a 2-year extension in January 2014. He was part of the LHC team who qualified for the playoffs for the first time in the club’s history on 4 March 2014. They went on to push the top seed ZSC Lions to a seventh game that they lost 1–0 in Zurich.

Jordan Binnington

Jordan Binnington is a Canadian professional ice hockey player known as the goaltender for the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Binnington was raised in Richmond Hill and Toronto, Ontario. He was drafted by the Blues in the third round, 88th overall in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. He spent seven seasons in the minor leagues, with a brief call-up to the NHL in 2014 as an emergency goaltender. Binnington played for Canada in the 2013 IIHF World U20 Championship.

In December 2018, he was called up by the Blues and within a month became their starting goaltender. His play helped the team improve from last place in the league to winning the 2019 Stanley Cup championship. He is the first NHL rookie goaltender to earn 16 wins in a single postseason, the maximum amount possible (not including the 2020 postseason, which included play-in games that enabled a goaltender to record more than 16 wins).

Chris Clifford

Chris Clifford is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey goaltender, who played two games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks. He filled in for Murray Bannerman in a 1985 game and for Ed Belfour in a 1989 game. He won the Bobby Smith Trophy in 1985-86. Clifford was drafted in the sixth round of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.

Clifford was born in Kingston, Ontario. He spent his junior career with the Ontario Hockey League’s Kingston Canadians and most of his professional career with various teams in the International Hockey League. Clifford became the first goaltender in Ontario Hockey League history to score a goal. In December 2019, Chris Clifford had his jersey number retired by the Kingston Frontenacs joining only the few other players in the franchise’s history.

After his hockey career, Chris attended law school at Queen’s University becoming a partner at Bergeron Clifford LLP in Ontario, Canada. Chris has consistently ranked as one of the top injury lawyers in Canada. He is a recognized Top Lawyer in Canada. Since 2015, Chris has been recognized as a Best Lawyer in Canada for his work in personal injury litigation. Along with his business partner Edward Bergeron, Chris has also received recognition from the Law Society of Ontario as a Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation.

Chris also served as a trustee to the Law Foundation of Ontario until 2016.

Clark Donatelli

John Clark Donatelli is an American former professional ice hockey player and is the former head coach of the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. Donatelli was a long-time minor league player in the American Hockey League (AHL) and International Hockey League (IHL). He played 35 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). Internationally Donatelli played for the American national team at several World Championships, and the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics.

Sean Durzi

Sean Durzi is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Durzi was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round of the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, and played his junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) with the Owen Sound Attack and Guelph Storm. He was traded to the Los Angeles Kings on January 28, 2019 along with Carl Grundström and a first round pick in the 2019 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for defenseman Jake Muzzin. He was signed on April 1, 2019 to an entry-level contract by the Kings. Durzi played his first NHL game on November 24, 2021 against the team that drafted him, the Toronto Maple Leafs, scoring a goal and an assist.

Eric Fehr

Eric Fehr is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He was drafted in the first round, 18th overall, by the Washington Capitals in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. In addition to two separate stints with Washington, Fehr has also played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Winnipeg Jets, Pittsburgh Penguins (with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2016), Toronto Maple Leafs, San Jose Sharks and the Minnesota Wild. Fehr ended his professional career after having played two final seasons with Genève-Servette HC of the National League (NL).

In 2014, Fehr became a published author, writing an anti-bullying children’s book titled “The Bulliest Dozer”. Proceeds from book sales benefited charity.

Craig Fisher

Craig Fisher is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Having previously served as the head coach of the UOIT hockey team, he began to work in the athletic administration for Ontario Tech University (UOIT)

Fisher grew up in Whitby, Ontario, where he and brother Mark played junior hockey. Mark and Craig both played for the Oshawa Legionaires of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. Mark would go on to play for McGill University, while Craig played US college hockey at Miami University.

Craig thrived at Miami, with 42 points (22 goals, 20 assists) in his 1988-89 freshman season, earning First-Team All-Rookie Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) honors, and then producing 66 points (37 goals, 29 assists) in his sophomore season, named to the First-Team All-CCHA Team for 1989-90. Fisher had been drafted 56th overall in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Philadelphia Flyers and turned pro at the end of the 1989-90 collegiate season. Fisher finished the season with Miami on March 3, 1990 and made his NHL debut with Philiadelphia some three weeks later, on March 27.

A prolific scorer, Fisher played 12 NHL games with the Flyers, Winnipeg Jets, and Florida Panthers, but spent much of his career playing for various American Hockey League (AHL) and International Hockey League (IHL) teams. Fisher was part of the AHL championship Cape Breton Oilers, winning the Calder Cup in 1993. He then led the IHL in goals scored (74) in 1995-96 while playing for the Orlando Solar Bears.

In 1995, while playing for the Rochester Americans, Fisher suffered a violent collision, knocked unconscious and hitting his head on the ice. His playing career would come to an end as a result of this traumatic brain injury. Fisher would move into coaching, eventually becoming the head coach for the Whitby Fury, leading the team to a 31-19 (.609) record in 2012-13 and a 35-14 (.698) season in 2013-14. He suffered another concussion behind the bench with Whitby in 2013, missing extensive time with the team as a result. Having previously served at Ontario Tech as an assistant coach, Fisher was named as the head coach of the Ridgebacks in 2014, but was forced to resign shortly afterwards due to ongoing concussion symptoms.

Fisher is also known as an athletic advisor for Ontario Tech, working to raise awareness of concussions in hockey and counseling athletes in dealing with concussion and TBI symptoms.