NHL Name Game: Maurice Richard Scott Gordon Mark Stuart Percy

NHL Name Game: Starring Maurice Richard Scott Gordon Mark Stuart Percy Jackson

Montreal Canadiens winger Maurice “Rocket” Richard was not only the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season (accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45), and the first to reach 500 career goals, but he also happens to be the first name in our NHL Name Game.

NHL NAME GAME

The premise of the NHL Name Game is simple: make the longest string of players in which the preceding player’s last name is the next player’s first name. With considerable help from the Hockey Reference website, we were able to construct a chain seven players long — Maurice Richard 🔗 Richard Scott 🔗 Scott Gordon 🔗 Gordon Mark 🔗 Mark Stuart 🔗 Stuart Percy 🔗 Percy Jackson.

Think you do better? Let us know your best name-game chain in the comments section below the post. Bonus points for finding a way to work in Hall of Fame players in your chain.