It's Canada Day!
I am sure you are all thrilled about this. '
Before I start this list a quick shout out to our all powerful and all knowing Supreme Leader Mark Carney. Everyone loves central bankers but we love them a little bit more.
Now that I kept myself out of the gulag on to the list.
- Donovan Bailey- Track and Field
- 2 time Olympic gold medalist and former 100m world record holder
- Larry Walker- Baseball
- 3x NL batting champion, 1x MVP and Hall of Famer
- Bobby Orr- Hockey
- 2x Stanley Cup Champion, 3x MVP, 2x Playoff MVP, Hall of Famer, greatest defenseman of all time
- Clara Hughes- Cycling and Speed Skating
- 6x Olympic medalist between the two sports. 1x gold 1x silver 4x Bronze
- Steve Nash- Basketball
- 2x NBA MVP and Hall of Famer
- Christine Sinclair- Soccer
- All time leading women's international goal scorer, 1x Olympic gold medalist
- Mario Lemieux- Hockey
- 2x Stanley Cup champion, 3x MVP, 2x Playoff MVP, Hall of Famer
- Georges St. Pierre- MMA
- 2x UFC Welterweight Champion, 1x UFC Middleweight Champion, considered one of the greatest of all time
- Hayley Wickenheiser- Hockey
- 5x Olympic Medalist (4 gold, 1 silver), 2x Olympic MVP, 7x World champion, widely regarded as the greatest female hockey player of all time.
- Wayne Gretzky- Hockey
- 4x Stanley Cup Champion, 9x MVP, 10x scoring leader, 2x Playoff MVP, all time NHL scorer, NHL Hall of Famer, widely regarded as the greatest hockey player of all time.
Larry Walker is Canadian!!! Whaaaaaat!
GSP! My favorite MMA fighter!!
Nice I met GSP at real sports bar and grill next to the Air Canada Centre. I had a couple buddies who used to live in the building the bar is located. We were watching a Blue Jays game and having a bite to eat at the bar and GSP walked in with a couple other guys and he asked the bartender directions for another restaurant in the building. A bunch of people recognized him, us included, so he stopped to say hello to everyone.
I didn't realize Gretzky was a 9x MVP. That's absurd.
Why is Lemieux so much higher than Orr, when their accolades are virtually identical?
Fair question. Orr was a defenseman so he didn't have the kind of gaudy stats that Gretzky and Lemieux did. Lemieux's career was cut short due to injuries/illness. He was legitimately on pace to be in Gretzky territory but he missed an entire season due to cancer treatment and retired early due to health issues and injuries and then came back for 5 seasons and retired again due to an irregular heartbeat. There is always the question if he would have become the greatest of all time if he wasn't plagued with so many issues. For some context on how great he was. The year after he came back from cancer treatment he had 161 points, led the league in scoring and won the MVP.
Might be some era bias on my part as well since I never saw Bobby Orr play but some people think he was the best ever because he was so great as a defenseman.
🏒 Leafs land Sergei Bobrovsky on a 3-year, $7M AAV deal, adding a future Hall of Fame goalie to the crease despite a rough 2024-25 season. Two-time Stanley Cup champ, two-time Vezina winner.
Big add for Leafs but he was pretty bad last season.