https://theathletic.com/665369/2018/...ldhood-heroes/
This article recently went over a number of them.
Prout - Iginla and Jason Arnott
Conroy - Messier
Backlund - Forsberg and Selanne
Frolik - Jagr
Brodie - Datsyuk
Giordano - Lidstrom
Hamonic - Lidstrom
Gaudreau - St. Louis
Monahan - Thornton, Stajan
Hathaway - Thornton
Ryan - Yzerman, Federov, Crosby, Ovechkin
Bennett - Crosby
Jankowski/Andersson/Czarnik - Crosby
Valimaki - Shea Weber