The 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame class featured four highly-decorated NHL players: goalie Ed Belfour, defenseman Mark Howe, and centers Doug Gilmour and Joe Nieuwendyk. Among the illustrious foursome, perhaps it is only fitting that Gilmour and Nieuwendyk were inducted together – each was an elite center in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, scored over 1,000 career points, served as a team captain, and the duo even played on the same team and won a Stanley Cup together. Given the similarities, let us look at these parallel Hall of Fame careers and examine the question:
Who was better – Doug Gilmour or Joe Nieuwendyk?
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