Eric Nesterenko may have barely been a half a point per game forward over his career, but he was a glue guy who was known for his elbows and ability to aggravate opponents and throw them off their game.  He was an important piece in the Chicago Blackhawks' Stanley Cup win in 1961, and he would twice lead the NHL in Short-Handed Goals.

From Rhode Island, Keith Carney would play scholastically for the University of Maine before joining the Buffalo Sabers.  The American Defenseman would become a defensive anchor everywhere he played in the sixteen seasons he was in the NHL, which included stops in Chicago, Phoenix, Anaheim, Vancouver, and Minnesota.  Carney would also represent the United States in the 1998 Olympics and he would twice finish in the top ten in Defensive Point Shares.

Tod Sloan played a handful of games for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the late 1940s and in the 1950/51 season, he secured himself not only a permanent place on the roster but proved to be one of the team’s better players, helping them win the Stanley Cup that season.  Sloan was the leader in Power Play Goals the following year, and in the 1955/56 season, he had a career year with a career high 37 Goals, which landed him fourth overall while also being fifth in Points.  He was named a Second Team All-Star and was the runner-up for the Hart Trophy that year. 

Winning the Calder Trophy in the 1998-99 Season with the Colorado Avalanche, Chris Drury made history as the first player to win the Calder Trophy and the Hobey Baker Award as the top hockey player in the NHL, which he won with Boston University the year before.  The native of Connecticut would never win another individual award, but he would be a part of Colorado’s Stanley Cup win in 2001 and the United States’ Silver Medal in the 2002 and 2012 Olympics.  Drury would also have five seasons later in his career (2005-06 to 2009-10), when he was with Buffalo and later the New York Rangers, during which he received votes for the Frank J. Selke Award.  It was in that stretch that he had his best season (with Buffalo in 2006-07), scoring a career-high 69 Points and finishing 13^th in Hart Trophy voting.  The Centre would finish with 615 Points over his career.