3, 2011, and played seven seasons in the League, including winning the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015 (wearing No. 11). Fun fact: Desjardins and forward Melvin Angelstad (two games with the Washington Capitals in 2003-04) are the only players in NHL history to wear No. 69.
This number is synonymous with one man. In 915 games, Mario Lemieux scored 690 goals and 1,723 points wearing the No. 66 for the Pittsburgh Penguins. He also saved the team from bankruptcy twice and is currently the owner of the team.
Today, if a player did wear number 66, it would feel like 66 tons of weight on his back. It's a number they would have to live up to. It's a number they know they couldn't live up to. No player has worn number 66 full-time since Vancouver's Gino Odjick in 1991.
99 – The Great One
Unless you are the Great One, this number is completely off limits to any hockey player anywhere in the known universe. It is retired in the NHL, and pretty much around any hockey leagues in North America, and quite likely in the whole world.
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. Anything less than 1 (0, fractions, decimals) are not permitted and anything over two digits is not permitted. Additionally, 99 was retired by the league to honor "The Great One."
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The #69 has been banned. and instead wore 70. I like the look of 80. That's a good number.
No, the NFL has not banned the number 69. However, the NBA apparently does not issue the number.
He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1997. No. 66 isn't retired League-wide like No. 99 is for Wayne Gretzky.
Still, Lemieux had not forgotten why he chose to wear the '66' as a nod to Gretzky's '99'. “I had the mindset of becoming the best in the world,” Lemieux recalls. “Looking at Gretzky, the way he was racking up points, I had a long way to go.” The chase was officially on, but playing in Pittsburgh had been frustrating.
The first (and only) skater to wear No. 0, Sheehy wasn't the first player in that number - that distinction goes to New York Rangers goalie Andy Aitkenhead in 1934, with goalie Paul Bibeault wearing it for the Montreal Canadiens in 1942.
The NFL joins the NBA, WNBA and MLB as major American sports leagues to let players wear No. 0. The NHL used to permit the number on the ice, but it banned the number starting with the 1996-97 season since Nos. 0 and 00 confused the league's digital database.
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96: Tomas Holmstrom
Holmstrom put up 530 points (243 goals and 287 assists) during the regular season. In the postseason, he put up 97 points in 180 games. Holmstrom helped the Red Wings win four Stanley Cups (1997, 1998, 2002, and 2008).
Numbers in the thirties were seen as "safe" for goaltenders, since most numbers below thirty were already spoken for by forwards and defensemen (remember that "high numbers" were essentially-unheard of at this time).
The number 00 has only been worn twice in NHL history. Martin Biron wore 00 for the 1996 season with the Buffalo Sabres, but only appeared in three games and had an 0-2 record. The only other time the number appeared on an NHL surface was by goaltender John Davidson in his 1977-78 campaign with the New York Rangers.
Wayne Gretzky's No. 99 is retired throughout the NHL not only because he is considered the greatest player in League history, but because the number and his name are synonymous. Though there is no debate over who the best player to wear that number is, there are 98 other numbers with more than one worthy candidate.
It was with the Greyhounds that Gretzky first wore the number 99 on his jersey. He originally wanted to wear number 9—for his hockey hero Gordie Howe—but it was already being worn by teammate Brian Gualazzi. At coach Muzz MacPherson's suggestion, Gretzky settled on 99.
66- Mario Lemieux
That's right, Mario Lemieux was the first and last player to wear the No. 66 with the Penguins. After being drafted in 1984, Lemieux became the second player in the NHL (after Washington Capitals' Milan Novy) to wear No.
Jersey numbers are so important because it's how fans identify their favourite athletes. For example, Number 99 is synonymous with one player, and one player only. Other players have worn the number 99, but Gretzky is the only player who fans identify as '99. '
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87 to the rafters before its game against Sherbrooke on Friday, and the QMJHL announced it will be retiring Crosby's number leaguewide during the 2020-21 season.
In 1997, MLB retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams; he was the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored.
No NBA player has ever worn the number 69, which is believed to be implicitly banned due to its sexual connotations; the NBA has never confirmed this.
Three years after its arrival in college football, jersey No. 0 is returning to the NFL. League owners voted this week to change NFL jersey policies to allow any player except offensive and defensive linemen to sport the No. 0 on their back and chest.
Except for offensive and defensive linemen, players can now wear the number zero. It follows in the path of college football, where the number was first allowed in 2020. Additionally, kickers and punters cam now use any jersey numeral between 0-49 and 90-99.