# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 21, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/top-15-playoff-performers-in-nhl-history*

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1. **Wayne Gretzky** — score 1000/1000
   Holds the playoff records for goals, assists and points, with four Cups.
2. **Joe Sakic** — score 649/1000
   Eight playoff overtime goals and a Conn Smythe in 1996.
3. **Mike Bossy** — score 579/1000
   Nine game-winning goals in one postseason run for the Islanders dynasty.
4. **Mario Lemieux** — score 579/1000
   Back-to-back Cups and Conn Smythes in 1991 and 1992.
5. **Claude Lemieux** — score 463/1000
   Won Cups with three teams and scored 19 game-winners doing it.
6. **Steve Yzerman** — score 463/1000
   Three Cups in Detroit and the double-overtime slap shot that started them.
7. **Jean Beliveau** — score 463/1000
   Ten Cups and the first Conn Smythe ever awarded.
8. **Maurice Richard** — score 463/1000
   Six overtime playoff goals and eight Cups in an 18-year career.
9. **Evgeni Malkin** — score 392/1000
   A Conn Smythe in 2009 and three Cups as Pittsburgh's second superstar.
10. **Bobby Orr** — score 309/1000
   Scored the 1970 Cup winner while airborne, and won two Conn Smythes.
11. **Martin Brodeur** — score 309/1000
   Three Cups in New Jersey and the most playoff shutouts in league history.
12. **Patrick Roy** — score 210/1000
   Three Conn Smythes in goal and the standard for stealing a series.
13. **Alex Ovechkin** — score 210/1000
   Led the 2018 playoffs with 15 goals and finally took the Cup and the Conn Smythe.
14. **Sidney Crosby** — score 210/1000
   Two Conn Smythes and three Cups, including back-to-back in 2016 and 2017.
15. **Mark Messier** — score 93/1000
   Two Conn Smythes and the 1994 guarantee he then delivered on.

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