Claude Lemieux made his first real mark in the NHL with an outstanding performance in the 1987 Stanley Cup playoffs, helping the Habs win the Stanley Cup.  A few years later, the supreme agitator was traded to the New Jersey Devils, and a similar situation occurred.

From Rochester, New York, Brian Gionta played collegiately at Boston College, where he took the Eagles to two Frozen Fours.  Drafted in the Third Round in 1998, Gionta arrived in New Jersey during the 2001-02 Season, and a year later, he played a minor role in the Devils' 2003 Stanley Cup win.

A First Round Pick in 1995, Petr Sykora made the Devils roster right away, and the Czechoslovakian Right Wing scored 42 Points and was a First Team All-Rookie.

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 the first revision of our top 50 Detroit Lions of all-time.

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

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Football League. 

3. Playoff accomplishments.

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

This is the second revision of the Lions, and our first since last year.

The complete list can be found here, but as always we announce our top five in this article.  They are:

1. Joe Schmidt

2. Barry Sanders 

3. Bobby Layne

4. Lem Barney

5. Doak Walker

The top five remains unaltered from our last rank and there are no new entries, however, minor changes were made.

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