Top 15 Playoff Performers in NHL History

Regular seasons are for records; the playoffs are for the two months that get remembered. Overtime winners, series-stealing goaltending, one goal scored in mid-air. Pick the player you would want in a Game 7.

1. 1
   Wayne Gretzky

   Holds the playoff records for goals, assists and points, with four Cups.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Joe Sakic

   Eight playoff overtime goals and a Conn Smythe in 1996.
   649pts
3. 3
   Mike Bossy

   Nine game-winning goals in one postseason run for the Islanders dynasty.
   579pts
4. 4
   Mario Lemieux

   Back-to-back Cups and Conn Smythes in 1991 and 1992.
   579pts
5. 5
   Claude Lemieux

   Won Cups with three teams and scored 19 game-winners doing it.
   463pts
6. 6
   Steve Yzerman

   Three Cups in Detroit and the double-overtime slap shot that started them.
   463pts
7. 7
   Jean Beliveau

   Ten Cups and the first Conn Smythe ever awarded.
   463pts
8. 8
   Maurice Richard

   Six overtime playoff goals and eight Cups in an 18-year career.
   463pts
9. 9
   Evgeni Malkin

   A Conn Smythe in 2009 and three Cups as Pittsburgh's second superstar.
   392pts
10. 10
    Bobby Orr

    Scored the 1970 Cup winner while airborne, and won two Conn Smythes.
    309pts
11. 11
    Martin Brodeur

    Three Cups in New Jersey and the most playoff shutouts in league history.
    309pts
12. 12
    Patrick Roy

    Three Conn Smythes in goal and the standard for stealing a series.
    210pts
13. 13
    Alex Ovechkin

    Led the 2018 playoffs with 15 goals and finally took the Cup and the Conn Smythe.
    210pts
14. 14
    Sidney Crosby

    Two Conn Smythes and three Cups, including back-to-back in 2016 and 2017.
    210pts
15. 15
    Mark Messier

    Two Conn Smythes and the 1994 guarantee he then delivered on.
    93pts