Damn.

A legendary drummer, Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones, passed away today at the age of 80.

From London, England, Watts joined the Stones in 1963, and was with the group until he died.  Considered one of the most versatile and proficient drummers of his era, or any other, Watts was the backbone of what can only be described as the greatest rock and roll band of all-time.

No other description fits.

The Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, their first year of eligibility. 

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, friends, and family of Charlie Watts.

Rock and Roll heaven got a lot more harmonious today as Don Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers, passed away at age 84.

The Everly Brothers (Don and Phil) were masters of harmony and were part of the early Rock and Roll fabric.  The Everlys signed their first major contract in 1956, and a year later, they had their first major hit, with “Bye Bye Love”.  Success continued for the pair, with “Wake Up Little Susie”, “All I Have to Do is Dream”, “Bird Dog”, “(Till) I Kissed You” and “Cathy’s Clown”.   

The Everly Brothers were part of the inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class in 1986, and would also be inducted to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to extend our condolences to the fans, friends, and family of Don Everly.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021-22 revision of our top 50 Boston Bruins.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey we look at the following: 

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NHL. 

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Please note, that this is our first revision in one year, but several players climbed in the rank.

As always, we present our top five immediately, though nothing has changed in this upper-tier.

1. Bobby Orr

2. Eddie Shore

3. Ray Bourque

4. Phil Esposito

5. Milt Schmidt

You can find the entire list here.

Patrice Bergeron, who has won four Frank J. Selke Trophies as the NHL’s top Defensive Forward, moved up one spot to #13.

Brad Marchand, who is now a four-time post-season All-Star, climbed five spots to #23.  

David Krejci, who was a two-time leader in Plus/Minus inched up one spot to #34.

2020 Rocket Richard winner, David Pastrnak, also moved up by one.  He is now #36.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is news to us that Boston Celtics have announced that they will be retiring Kevin Garnett’s #13 on March 13, 2022 during their home game against Dallas.

Last season, during their game against the Clippers on February 13, the team made the announcement that Garnett’s jersey retirement would be impending.

Garnett, who entered the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in the Class of 2020, was with the Minnesota Timberwolves for his first twelve years, was traded to the Celtics in 2007.  Boston also signed Ray Allen, and along with Paul Pierce, the trio won the NBA Championship that year.

Garnett stayed with the Celtics for six seasons, went to four All-Star Games and was also the 2008 Defensive Player of the Year.  As a Celtic, Garnett was chosen for one First Team All-NBA Selection, three First Team All-Defensive Selections and one Second Team All-Defensive Selection.

His #5 will join Robert Parish (#00), Walter Brown (#1), Red Auerbach (#2), Dennis Johnson (#3), Bill Russell (#6), JoJo White (#10), Bob Cousy (#14), Tom Heinsohn (#15), Tom Sanders (#16), John Havlicek (#17), Dave Cowens (#18), Don Nelson (#19), Bill Sharman (#21), Ed Macauley (#22), Frank Ramsey (#23), Sam Jones (#24), K.C. Jones (#25), Cedric Maxwell (#31), Kevin McHale (#32), Larry Bird (#33), Paul Pierce (#34), Reggie Lewis (#35) and Jim Loscutoff (LOSCY).

We would like to congratulate Kevin Garnett for earning this honor.