Alumni in the Playoffs - 2010

[Josh '99]

I take it the vote doesn't become public.....

Not supposed to, no.

As the Dallas Morning News article points out, Joe is in some pretty good company in not being selected.  Took Ciccarelli 8 years to get in and he had 600 goals.  With 41 players now in the 500-goal club (compared to 28 ten years ago, 15 twenty years ago, and 8 thirty years ago), including a fair number of players who make this hockey fan think "very good but not all-time-great" (Pat Verbeek, Petr Bondra, Keith Tkachuk, Joe Mullen), I don't think you can simply say "500 goals, 1000 points, automatic induction" at this point like you might have in 1985.  It parallels what's going on in baseball with 500 home runs pretty nicely.

[RatushnyFan]

"very good but not all-time-great" (Pat Verbeek, Petr Bondra, Keith Tkachuk, Joe Mullen)

Joe Mullen was inducted into the HOF in 2000.  Joe Mullen Profile

A point a game player with 3 Stanley Cups.  Actually played 182 games in the CHL post Boston College before he stuck in the NHL.  Good analogy for Joe's candidacy as I mentioned in my original post.  Would Joe Mullen make the hockey HOF in 2010?

[pfibiger]

Ryan Vesce has signed with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the KHL

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