One of the more successful Finnish players in professional hockey history, Kimmo Timonen, is one of the few players in the National Hockey League to accrue over 1,100 Games.  A Stay-at-home blueliner, Timonen represented Finland internationally multiple times, which resulted in four Olympic medals.  Timonen is also a Stanley Cup Champion, a title he achieved in his final pro game with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2015.  Not a bad way to finish a professional hockey career.

After the 1996 World Junior Hockey Tournament, where he led Canada to its fourth straight Gold Medal, Jose Theodore, whom the Montreal Canadiens drafted, would slowly work his way up the organization’s depth chart, and in the 1999-2000 season, he would share netminding duties before becoming the main Goalie shortly after.