Who wore number 7 in NHL?

What’s great about 7 is that it looks good on forwards and defensemen alike. It’s right at home in the block fonts of an Original Six uniform and still looks great in a more modern treatment.

Phil Esposito

Philip Anthony Esposito is a Canadian broadcaster, and former professional ice hockey executive, coach and player. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, he played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, and New York Rangers. He is considered one of the greatest players of all time, and is the older brother of fellow Hall-of-Famer Tony Esposito, a goaltender.

After retiring as a player, Esposito served as head coach and general manager of the New York Rangers before co-founding the Tampa Bay Lightning. He is also known as Tampa Bay’s radio colour commentator.

In 2017, Esposito was named one of the ‘100 Greatest NHL Players’ in history.

Paul Coffey

Paul Douglas Coffey is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played for nine teams in the National Hockey League. He won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenceman three times and was voted to eight end-of-season All-Star Teams (four First-Team and four Second-Team). He scored 48 goals as a defenceman in one season in 1985–86, and is the first defenceman to have scored 40 goals more than once, also doing it in 1983–84. He is also one of the few defencemen to score 100 points in a season more than one time, as he did it five times. Paul Coffey holds or shares multiple NHL records in the regular season and playoffs.

During his NHL career, he played for the Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings, Detroit Red Wings, Hartford Whalers, Philadelphia Flyers, Carolina Hurricanes, Chicago Blackhawks, and Boston Bruins. He is a four-time Stanley Cup champion, winning three times with Edmonton and a fourth with Pittsburgh.

Coffey was born in Weston, Ontario, and grew up in Malton, Ontario. The city of Mississauga renamed Malton Arena to Paul Coffey Arena and renamed Wildwood Park to Paul Coffey Park in a ceremony on September 23, 2016. In 2017, Coffey was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.

Rod Gilbert

Rodrigue Gabriel Gilbert was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played his entire career for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as “Mr. Ranger”, he played right wing on the GAG line (Goal-A-Game line) with Vic Hadfield and Jean Ratelle. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982, and was the first player in Rangers history to have his number retired. After his playing career, he became president of the Rangers’ alumni association.

Tim Horton

Miles Gilbert “Tim” Horton was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 24 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. In 2017, Horton was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. He died following a single-vehicle crash in 1974 caused by driving while intoxicated at the age of 44.

A successful businessman, Horton was the co-founder of the Tim Hortons coffee restaurant.

Howie Morenz

Howard William Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League (NHL) teams: the Montreal Canadiens (in two stints), the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, the championship for junior ice hockey in Canada. In the NHL, he was one of the most dominant players in the league and set several league scoring records. A strong skater, Morenz was referred to as the “Stratford Streak” and “Mitchell Meteor” in reference to his speed on the ice.

Considered one of the first stars of the NHL, Morenz played 14 seasons in the league. He was a member of a Stanley Cup–winning team three times, all with the Canadiens. During his NHL career he placed in the top 10 leading scorers ten times. For seven straight seasons, Morenz led the Canadiens in both goals scored and points. He was named the winner of the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player of the league three times, and he led the league once in goals scored and twice in points scored. After the introduction of All-Star teams in 1931, he was named to the NHL First All-Star Team twice and the NHL Second All-Star Team once.

Morenz died from complications of a broken leg, an injury he suffered in a game. After his death, the Canadiens retired his jersey number, the first time the team had done so for any player. When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the original nine inductees. In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century, and in 2017 the NHL included him on their list of the 100 greatest players in league history.

Gary Aldcorn

Gary William Aldcorn is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played 226 games in the National Hockey League for the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, and Toronto Maple Leafs between 1956 and 1961. Over his NHL career, Aldcorn scored 41 regular-season goals and one goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Internationally Aldcorn played for the Canadian national team at the 1965 World Championships.

Brady Tkachuk

Braeden “Brady” Tkachuk is an American professional ice hockey player known as the left winger and captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League (NHL). Tkachuk was chosen by the Senators as the fourth overall pick in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft. Prior to turning professional, Tkachuk played one season for the Boston University Terriers, earning All-Hockey East Rookie Team honors.

Internationally, Tkachuk has represented Team USA at the 2017 IIHF World U18 Championships and 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Todd Bertuzzi

Todd Bertuzzi is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger of the National Hockey League (NHL). Known as a power forward, he has played in the NHL for the New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames and Detroit Red Wings.

Selected 23rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, he played at the junior level with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons. In 1995–96, he played his rookie season with the Islanders. After two-and-a-half seasons with the Islanders, he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks. Bertuzzi enjoyed the most successful seasons of his career with the Canucks — his longest tenured team in the NHL — including NHL First Team All-Star honours in 2003.

During the 2003–04 season, he was suspended for the Todd Bertuzzi–Steve Moore incident. In 2006, after seven-and-a-half seasons with Vancouver, Bertuzzi was dealt to the Florida Panthers, with whom he briefly played for until being traded again to the Red Wings. He then played single seasons with the Anaheim Ducks and the Calgary Flames before returning to Detroit in 2009 and finishing his career there. Internationally, Bertuzzi has competed for Team Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, as well as the 1998 and 2000 World Championships.

He is the uncle of Tyler Bertuzzi who’s known for playing with the Detroit Red Wings.

Tom Bissett

Tom Bissett is an American former professional ice hockey left winger. He grew up playing junior hockey in Lynnwood, Washington before joining the Waterloo Black Hawks, then moving to Michigan Tech on a hockey scholarship. In the 1990–91 season, he played in 5 NHL games for the Detroit Red Wings and he did not register a point. He was more successful in Europe where he played for 12 seasons as well as representing the United States at the 1992 and 1999 IIHF ice hockey world championships.

Tobias Bjornfot

Tobias Björnfot is a Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing with the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 22nd overall by the Kings in the first round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft.

Bill Barber

William Charles Barber is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played twelve seasons for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). As part of the famed LCB (Leach, Clarke, Barber) line, Barber helped lead the Flyers to the franchise’s two Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990. He is also known as a scouting consultant with the Flyers.

Ted Lindsay

Ted Lindsay was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played as a forward for the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Lindsay scored over 800 points in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, won the Art Ross Trophy in 1950, and won the Stanley Cup four times. Often referred to as “Terrible Ted”, Lindsay helped to organize the first attempt at a Players’ Association in the late 1950s, an action which led to his trade to Chicago. In 2017, Lindsay was named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history.

King Clancy

Francis Michael “King” Clancy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, referee, coach and executive. Clancy played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs. He was a member of three Stanley Cup championship teams and won All-Star honours. After he retired in 1937, he remained in hockey, becoming a coach for the Montreal Maroons. Clancy next worked as a referee for the NHL. He joined the Maple Leafs organization and worked in the organization as a coach and team executive until his death in 1986. In 2017 Clancy was named one of the ‘100 Greatest NHL Players’ in history.

Clancy’s nickname “King” originates from his father Tom, who was the first ‘King Clancy’ and played football with the Ottawa Rough Riders. At the time the football was not snapped as is done today, but was ‘heeled’ back from the line. Frank’s father was very good at this and was named ‘King of the Heelers’ or ‘King’ for short. This nickname was eventually transferred to Frank.