As a little kid Willi Plett was my favourite player. I will never forget standing in the Corral concourse as a kid, watching the players walk out to the ice, and this GIANT blonde surfer looking dude without a helmet walked by, and gave me a wink. That's all it takes to make a kid a lifelong fan. All the kids would be picking all the big names at the time for road hockey. Gretzky, Sittler, Marcel Dionne... I always went with Willi Plett.
But I have to take Joe Nieuwendyk here if we are basing this on the best players. Picking Plett over Nieuwendyk, would be almost as stupid as taking Gelinas over Reinhart.
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