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Retired numbers


Honoured numbers

For special successes, the number of the hockey player can be fixed for him forever and no one else in the team will play this number.

The exceptions are special cases, for example, it was allowed Bred Hall to play under the number of his famous brother Bobby Hall, was allowed to use the number of Vladislav Tretiak in CSKA to his grandson, also the goalkeeper.

The number 1 was assigned to the fans of the club in Minnesota Wild.
Well, absolutely non-ordinal case - number 99 is permanently assigned to Wayne Gretzky in the entire NHL.


All NHL teams

D 99 Wayne Gretzky (Cochrane)

Anaheim Ducks

D 27 Scott Niedermayer (Edmonton)
RW 8 Teemu Selanne (Helsinki)
LW 9 Paul Kariya (Vancouver)

Arizona Coyotes

RW 19 Shane Doan (Halkirk)

Boston Bruins

C 11 Gilbert Perreault (Victoriaville)
RW 14 Rene Robert (Trois-Rivieres)
C 15 Milt Schmidt (Kitchener)
RW 16 Rick Middleton (Toronto)
C 16 Pat LaFontaine (St. Louis)
RW 18 Danny Gare (Nelson)
D 2 Eddie Shore (Fort Qu'Appelle)
D 2 Tim Horton (Cochrane)
LW 22 Willie O'Ree (Fredericton)
RW 24 Terry O'Reilly (Niagara Falls)
D 3 Lionel Hitchman (Toronto)
G 39 Dominik Hašek (Pardubice)
D 4 Bobby Orr (Parry Sound)
D/F 5 Dit Clapper (Newmarket)
C 7 Phil Esposito (Sault Ste. Marie)
LW 7 Rick Martin (Verdun)
D 77 Ray Bourque (Montreal)
RW 8 Cam Neely (Comox)
LW 9 Johnny Bucyk (Edmonton)

Calgary Flames

RW 12 Jarome Iginla (Edmonton)
G 30 Mike Vernon (Calgary)
RW 9 Lanny McDonald (Hanna)

Carolina Hurricanes

C 10 Ron Francis (Sault Ste. Marie)
C 17 Rod Brind'Amour (Ottawa)
D 2 Glen Wesley (Red Deer)

Chicago Blackhawks

G 1 Glenn Hall (Humboldt)
C 18 Denis Savard (Pointe Gatineau)
C 21 Stan Mikita (Sokolče)
D 3 Keith Magnuson (Saskatoon)
D 3 Pierre Pilote (Kenogami)
G 35 Tony Esposito (Sault Ste. Marie)
LW 9 Bobby Hull (Point Anne)

Colorado Avalanche

C 19 Joe Sakic (Burnaby)
C 21 Peter Forsberg (Örnsköldsvik)
RW 23 Milan Hejduk (Usti nad Labem)
G 33 Patrick Roy (Quebec City)
D 52 Adam Foote (Toronto)
D 77 Ray Bourque (Montreal)

Dallas Stars

C 19 Bill Masterton (Winnipeg)
RW 26 Jere Lehtinen (Espoo)
D 56 Sergey Zubov (Moscow)
C 7 Neal Broten (Roseau)
C 8 Bill Goldsworthy (Waterloo)
C 9 Mike Modano (Livonia)

Detroit Red Wings

G 1 Terry Sawchuk (Winnipeg)
LW 10 Alex Delvecchio (Fort William)
C 12 Sid Abel (Melville)
C 19 Steve Yzerman (Cranbrook)
4 Red Kelly (Simcoe)
D 5 Nicklas Lidstrom (Västerås)
LW 7 Ted Lindsay (Renfrew)
RW 9 Gordie Howe (Floral)

Edmonton Oilers

C 11 Mark Messier (Edmonton)
RW 17 Jari Kurri (Helsinki)
D 3 Al Hamilton (Flin Flon)
G 31 Grant Fuhr (Spruce Grove)
D 7 Paul Coffey (Weston)
RW 9 Glenn Anderson (Vancouver)
C 99 Wayne Gretzky (Brantford)

Florida Panthers

G 1 Roberto Luongo (Montreal)
37 Wayne Huizenga (Evergreen Park)
93 Bill Torrey (Montreal)

Los Angeles Kings

C 16 Marcel Dionne (Drummondville)
RW 18 Dave Taylor (Levack)
LW 20 Luc Robitaille (Montreal)
G 30 Rogatien Vachon (Palmarolle)
D 4 Rob Blake (Simcoe)
C 99 Wayne Gretzky (Brantford)

Montreal Canadiens

G 1 Jacques Plante (Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel)
RW 10 Guy Lafleur (Thurso)
LW 12 Dickie Moore (Montreal)
RW 12 Yvan Cournoyer (Drummondville)
C 16 Elmer Lach (Nokomis)
C 16 Henri Richard (Montreal)
D 18 Serge Savard (Montreal)
D 19 Larry Robinson (Winchester)
D 2 Doug Harvey (Montreal)
LW 23 Bob Gainey (Peterborough)
G 29 Ken Dryden (Hamilton)
D 3 Émile Bouchard (Montreal)
G 33 Patrick Roy (Quebec City)
C 4 Jean Beliveau (Trois-Rivieres)
RW 5 Bernie Geoffrion (Montreal)
D 5 Guy Lapointe (Montreal)
C 7 Howie Morenz (Mitchell)
RW 9 Maurice Richard (Montreal)

New Jersey Devils

LW 26 Patrik Elias (Třebíč)
D 27 Scott Niedermayer (Edmonton)
D 3 Ken Daneyko (Windsor)
G 30 Martin Brodeur (Montreal)
D 4 Scott Stevens (Kitchener)

New York Islanders

C 19 Bryan Trottier (Val Marie)
RW 22 Mike Bossy (Montreal)
RW 23 Bob Nystrom (Stockholm)
27 John Tonelli (Milton)
G 31 Billy Smith (Perth)
D 5 Denis Potvin (Vanier)
LW 9 Clark Gillies (Moose Jaw)
C 91 Butch Goring (Saint Boniface)

New York Rangers

G 1 Ed Giacomin (Sudbury)
C 11 Mark Messier (Edmonton)
LW 11 Vic Hadfield (Oakville)
C 19 Jean Ratelle (Lac St-Jean)
D 2 Brian Leetch (Cheshire)
D 3 Harry Howell (Hamilton)
G 35 Mike Richter (Philadelphia)
RW 7 Rod Gilbert (Montreal)
LW 9 Adam Graves (Toronto)
RW 9 Andy Bathgate (Winnipeg)

Ottawa Senators

RW 11 Daniel Alfredsson (Göteborg)
D 4 Chris Phillips (Calgary)
RW 8 Frank Finnigan (Shawville)

Philadelphia Flyers

G 1 Bernie Parent (Montreal)
C 16 Bobby Clarke (Flin Flon)
2 Mark Howe (Detroit)
D 4 Barry Ashbee (Weston)
LW 7 Bill Barber (Callander)
C 88 Eric Lindros (London)

Pittsburgh Penguins

C 21 Michel Briere (Malartic)
C 66 Mario Lemieux (Montreal)

St. Louis Blues

LW 11 Brian Sutter (Viking)
RW 16 Brett Hull (Belleville)
D 2 Al MacInnis (Inverness)
C 24 Bernie Federko (Foam Lake)
C 3 Bob Gassoff (Quesnel)
D 44 Chris Pronger (Dryden)
D 5 Bob Plager (Kirkland Lake)
D 8 Barclay Plager (Kirkland Lake)

Tampa Bay Lightning

26 Martin St. Louis (Laval)
C 4 Vincent Lecavalier (Ile Bizard)

Toronto Maple Leafs

G 1 Johnny Bower (Prince Albert)
G 1 Turk Broda (Brandon)
RW 10 George Armstrong (Skead)
C 10 Syl Apps (Paris)
C 13 Mats Sundin (Bromma)
14 Dave Keon (Noranda)
LW 17 Wendel Clark (Kelvington)
D 21 Borje Salming (Kiruna)
C 27 Darryl Sittler (Kitchener)
LW 27 Frank Mahovlich (Timmins)
D/F 4 Hap Day (Owen Sound)
4 Red Kelly (Simcoe)
D 5 Bill Barilko (Timmins)
RW 6 Ace Bailey (Bracebridge)
7 King Clancy (Ottawa)
D 7 Tim Horton (Cochrane)
RW 9 Charlie Conacher (Toronto)
C 9 Ted Kennedy (Port Colborne)
C 93 Doug Gilmour (Kingston)

Vancouver Canucks

RW 10 Pavel Bure (Moscow)
RW 12 Stan Smyl (Glendon)
16 Trevor Linden (Medicine Hat)
LW 19 Markus Naslund (Örnsköldsvik)
LW 22 Daniel Sedin (Örnsköldsvik)
C 33 Henrik Sedin (Örnsköldsvik)

Washington Capitals

RW 11 Mike Gartner (Ottawa)
C 32 Dale Hunter (Petrolia)
D 5 Rod Langway (Taipei)
7 Yvon Labre (Sudbury)