Who wore number 70 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.

Tanner Pearson

Tanner Pearson is a Canadian professional ice hockey player known for playing with the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Pearson was drafted 30th overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings.

Oleg Tverdovsky

Oleg Fedorovych Tverdovsky is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman.

Louis Domingue

Louis Boileau-Domingue is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender known for playing with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Domingue was selected by the Phoenix Coyotes in the fifth round, 138th overall, of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.

Patric Hörnqvist

Patric Gösta Hörnqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey player known as an alternate captain for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League. He has also played for the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Hörnqvist won his first Stanley Cup championship when the Penguins defeated the San Jose Sharks in six games in the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals. In 2017, Hörnqvist scored the Cup-winning goal against his former team, as the Penguins repeated as Stanley Cup champions.

Dmitry Kulikov

Dmitry Vladimirovich Kulikov is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing with the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Florida Panthers in the first round, 14th overall, at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft. He has previously played for the Panthers, Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets, New Jersey Devils and the Edmonton Oilers.

Joe Morrow

Joseph Mathew Alexander Morrow is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing in the Liiga for Ässät. He played for Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Morrow played junior hockey with the Portland Winterhawks of the Western Hockey League. He was drafted 23rd overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. Before joining the Devils, Morrow played for the Boston Bruins, Montreal Canadiens, Winnipeg Jets, and New Jersey Devils.

Mike Murphy

Michael John Murphy is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for 13 years for the St. Louis Blues, New York Rangers and the Los Angeles Kings and has been Assistant and Head Coach in the NHL for The Los Angeles Kings, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers. Murphy also played for Team Canada winning a Bronze Medal in 1978 and Coached Team Canada, International Hockey League (IHL). Murphy is also known as Senior Vice President of the NHL, hockey operations.

Troy Stecher

Troy Stecher is a Canadian professional ice hockey player known as the defenceman for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Vancouver Canucks.

Undrafted into the NHL, Stecher played for the University of North Dakota for three seasons. In his last season, he was honoured as a Second-Team All-American West, All-NCHC Second Team, and NCHC Offensive Defenseman of the Year.

Malcolm Subban

Malcolm-Jamaal Justin Subban is a Canadian professional ice hockey player known as the goaltender for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Subban was selected by the Boston Bruins in the first round (24th overall) of the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. He played junior hockey in the Ontario Hockey League with the Belleville Bulls.

His older brother, P. K., is a Norris Trophy-winning defenceman with the New Jersey Devils. His younger brother, Jordan, is a former draft pick of the Vancouver Canucks, also known for playing under contract with the Hershey Bears of the AHL.

Oskar Sundqvist

Oskar Sundqvist is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre known for playing with the St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Born in Boden, Sweden, Sundqvist played within the Skellefteå organization at both their club youth and professional levels. After being drafted in the third round, 81st overall, by the Pittsburgh Penguins, Sundqvist won a silver medal with Sweden men’s national junior ice hockey team at the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

Upon moving to North America, Sundqvist spent three seasons within the Penguins organization, with whom he won the 2016 Stanley Cup. Sundqvist was traded to the St. Louis Blues during the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. While with the Blues, Sundqvist built upon his earlier success and helped the team win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.

Danny Taylor

Daniel Taylor is an English-born professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was drafted in the seventh round (221st overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings and has appeared in four NHL games with the Kings, Calgary Flames, and Ottawa Senators.

Internationally Taylor played for the Belarusian national team at the 2021 World Championships.

Tim Thomas

Timothy Thomas Jr. is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender who mainly played in the National Hockey League (NHL), most notably with the Boston Bruins.

He was born in Flint, Michigan and is a graduate of Davison High School. Thomas played college hockey for the University of Vermont for four years, from 1993–1997, during which he was drafted 217th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played for several years in the minor leagues and Europe, before making it to the NHL at age 28, with the Boston Bruins. He finally emerged as the Bruins’ starting goaltender at age 32. Thomas is a two-time winner of the Vezina Trophy (2009 and 2011) as the NHL’s best goaltender, and was a member of Team USA in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Thomas won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player in the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs. He was the oldest player in NHL history to win the award at age 37. Thomas is one of the few American-born players to win the Conn Smythe Trophy.

Kevin Sawyer

Kevin John Sawyer is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Boston Bruins, Phoenix Coyotes, and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim between 1995 and 2003. He also spent several years in the minor American Hockey League and International Hockey League.

After playing three years with the Spokane Chiefs of the WHL Sawyer was signed by the St. Louis Blues in 1995. While with the Chiefs, Sawyer established himself as a hard hitting enforcer, and he would continue this role in the NHL. For the 1995–1996 season, Sawyer played the majority of the year with the Worcester IceCats while also making his NHL debut with the Blues. He appeared in six games with the Blues before being traded to the Boston Bruins in a deal that sent Steve Leach to the Blues. Sawyer appeared in two more games with the Bruins that year. The 1996–1997 season saw Sawyer play 60 games with the Providence Bruins and two games with the Boston Bruins. After that year he was released by the Bruins.

The next three years saw Sawyer toil in the minors with the Michigan K-Wings, Worcester IceCats, and Springfield Falcons. He signed contracts with the Dallas Stars in 1997 and again with the Blues in 1998 but he did not appear in any games with the teams. Sawyer signed with the Phoenix Coyotes for the 1999–2000 season and finally returned to the NHL where he played three games with the Coyotes.

Sawyer then signed with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in 2000. With the Mighty Ducks, Sawyer finally saw regular playing time in the NHL and established himself as a top enforcer. After playing only nine games with the Mighty Ducks in the 2000–2001 season, Sawyer made the team for the 2001–2002 season. He appeared in 57 games and logged 221 penalty minutes along with his first career NHL goal. That year he was also involved in a large brawl in a game between the Mighty Ducks and Calgary Flames. After Craig Berube hit Mighty Ducks’ goalie Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Sawyer skated in the Flames zone on the next play and rammed into Flames’ goalie Mike Vernon, leading to a number of fights and more than 300 penalty minutes between the teams in the final minutes of the game.

The 2002–2003 season saw Sawyer play 31 games with the Mighty Ducks before suffering a concussion in a fight with Brad Norton. He missed the remainder of the season and officially announced his retirement in 2003.

Rasmus Ristolainen

Rasmus Ristolainen is a Finnish professional ice hockey player known as the defenceman for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected eighth overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.

Ristolainen made his NHL debut with the Buffalo Sabres on the opening night of the 2013–14 season, on 2 October 2013, against the Detroit Red Wings. He scored his first career NHL goal later in the month, on 25 October against Jacob Markström of the Florida Panthers. On 5 January 2014, Ristolainen scored the overtime winner in the final of the 2014 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships against previously undefeated Sweden, giving Finland the gold medal. He scored his first NHL hat-trick on 10 December 2015 against the Calgary Flames. In so doing, he became the first Sabres’ defenceman to score a hat-trick since Hockey Hall of Famer Phil Housley did so in the 1987–88 season.

On 21 March 2017, Ristolainen delivered a check to Pittsburgh Penguins forward Jake Guentzel. Guentzel suffered a concussion on the play, and Ristolainen was given a three-game suspension for interference by the league.

On 23 July 2021, Ristolainen was traded by the Sabres to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Robert Hägg, a 2021 first-round pick and a 2023 second-round pick.

Jeremy Yablonski

Jeremy Yablonski is a former professional ice hockey right winger. Primarily a hockey enforcer, Yablonski is a six time, novice Golden Gloves boxing champion. After his professional hockey career, Yablonski went on to obtain his Master in International Business.

Yablonski first played for the St. Louis Blues, and received a five-minute major for fighting Todd Fedoruk. From there, Yablonski continued a 15-year career in professional hockey as an enforcer. Playing for Nashville Predators NHL/AHL, Ottawa Senators NHL/AHL, NY Islanders NHL/AHL, and Vityaz KHL, Yablonski made a huge impact on the ice with his high energy play and willingness to protect his teammates. Yablonski won the Calder Cup in the AHL and the Kelly Cup in the ECHL.

Jeremy Yablonski fought in his first professional mixed martial arts competition on May 12, 2007, at XFS (Extreme Fight Series) 5, knocking his opponent out in 19 seconds of the first round. Yablonski improved in XFS-6 on June 14, 2007 by knocking his opponent out in 17 seconds of the first round. Jeremy Yablonski confirmed his signing with Vityaz Chekhov on July 24, 2011.

In 2013, he expressed interest in gaining first Polish, and then Ukrainian dual-citizenship in order to play for the Ukrainian national hockey team.

On December 31, 2021, Yablonski came out of retirement and signed with the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL.