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5. Wayne Gretzky
Similar to soccer, I am not a huge consumer of hockey. But, to leave "The Great One" off this list would be crazy. To highlight a few of Gretzky's accomplishments, in his 20 NHL seasons, he held or shared 61 NHL records, including 40 regular season, 15 playoff, and 6 All-Star Records.
In addition to scoring a whopping 47 points the 1985 playoffs, Gretzky had 31 assists in the 1988 playoffs. Aside from these incredible statistics, interestingly a lot of analysts noted that Gretzky was not the biggest or strongest player, but most likely the smartest player in the history of hockey. Former Hall of Famer Igor Larionov once claimed that "you never knew what he was going to do" and that "He was improvising all the time. Every time he took the ice, there was some spontaneous decision he would make. That’s what made him such a phenomenal player."
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