Dale Hunter was a tough-as-nails hockey player who would score as quickly as he would enter the penalty box. As a rookie with the Quebec Nordiques, he scored 63 Points, and in four of the next five campaigns with Quebec, he reached the 60 Point mark.
From Indianapolis, John-Michael Liles would play his first seven seasons in the National Hockey League with the Colorado Avalanche, a period that without question was the best of his career.
From the Soviet Union, Valeri Kamensky was one of a handful of players that NHL teams began to draft in the possible anticipation that they could one day play in the NHL. Kamensky was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques in 1988 and made his debut for them during the 1991-92 season.
Duchesne was drafted 3rd overall in 2009, and fittingly, he finished third in Calder Trophy voting in 2009-10 after he scored 55 Points. The Center from Haliburton, Ontario, had a better sophomore campaign with a 67 Point season and a trip to the All-Star Game, but injuries took him out of roughly a third of the Avs games in the next two seasons. Duchesne would have his best stat year for Colorado in 2013-14 with 70 Points, and he followed that up with two more 55-plus campaigns, the latter seeing him go to his second All-Star Game.