Talk:List of players who played only one game in the NHL

The idea of this article is to prevent stubs from being created. There are well over 100 players in the NHL who have only played one game or only played in the playoffs and I feel that all those players don't deserve their own articles. So, I am creating this article so that the players will have their place on Wikipedia without having their own little stub. I will link all the player links to this article to get rid of red links as well. Be patient as this is a big project. Masterhatch 06:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

DOB
I have wikified all the DOBs. Can someone check-


 * Bill "Red" Anderson: born 13 December 1912

The given date was 12/13/1912, every other date was dd/mm/yyyy (or similar). As this was in a differnet formt from the rest.

Also several have unknown DOBs "?/?/?". Rich  Farmbrough 13:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Ooops, and

Rich  Farmbrough 13:32, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Darrell Anholt: born 23 November 1962 (11/23/1962)

Finnish players
I added Mikko Jokela, who has his own page for his SM-liiga accomplishments, and Martti Järventie. Although their single NHL games took place after 2000-01, it's highly unlikely either of them will ever play in North America again. Elrith 18:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

players
Some of the players now got their own articles, most of them are copy of the info here. It's pointless to do that. Thanks Jaranda wat's sup 20:24, 2 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps you ought to take note of the Notability standards for ice hockey players:

Ice hockey players shall be considered notable for purposes of the hockey project's scope if they fulfill one or more of the following and if they otherwise fulfill the requirements of WP:V:


 * Played one or more games in the National Hockey League, the Elitserien, the SM-liiga, the Russian Super League or other such top national professional league.
 * Played one or more games in a defunct league generally considered to have been a "major" professional league, such as the World Hockey Association, the National Hockey Association, the Czechoslovak Extraliga, the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and suchlike.
 * Played one or more games in an amateur league considered, through lack of a professional league, the highest level of competition extant, such as the 19th century Amateur Hockey Association or the Soviet League.
 * Played five or more seasons, and at least 100 games, in a fully professional minor league such as the American Hockey League, the International Hockey League, the ECHL, the Mestis, the HockeyAllsvenskan or other such league.
 * Achieved preeminent honors (all-time top ten career scorer, league or playoff MVP, first team all-star, All-American) in a lower minor league such as the Central Hockey League or the United Hockey League, in a major junior league such as the Ontario Hockey Association or the Western Hockey League or in a major collegiate hockey league.
 * Played on a national Olympic team.
 * Are Honoured Members of the Hockey Hall of Fame.


 * --Ulf17 07:19, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I originally started this article so that we wouldn't have a thousand stubs for players that only played one game. let's be honest, a player who only played one game hardly deserves his own article (most of the time). all the important info for a "one gamer" can be summed up in a few lines, so why create a stub when all the info can be placed here? Unless a player as done something special--such as Don Cherry-- or played in other major professional leagues--such as the WHA-- why create a stub? all the relevant info is in this article and that should be enough. i know wikipedia is not paper, but i hate stubs as much as the next guy. Masterhatch 04:43, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

How does this look?
I wanted to get the opinion of others before I continued. --Ulf17 (talk) 13:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * For me it's ok... but I suggest you to use a sortable table and the Sortname template for the players. --necronudist (talk) 13:44, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Wow, this would look great. Quite an undertaking, but I'm sure you're up for it. :) Skudrafan1 (talk) 13:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * That is some fine work. Good luck with the conversion.  I've been looking for a way to make the stats table look better at Calgary Flames draft history, and I think you've come up with a very good look. Resolute 15:49, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * all looks good to me! Masterhatch (talk) 20:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Redirect
If you click some of these players they just direct you back to page which is just a very annoying thing to have. I think we should delete those players wiki page that redirects here.--Fire 55 (talk) 01:55, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * It would be preferable to create articles instead, though yeah, a self-referential redirect is rather dumb. If you see them, perhaps list them here, or create an article from them.  A decent stub can be made pretty easily from their hockeydb and legendsofhockey bios. Resolute 03:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

List
Put a strike through them ( Strike ) when they become articles. --24.102.232.53 (talk) 17:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
 * George Abbott
 * Gerry Abel
 * Darrell Anholt
 * Andy Barbe
 * Blair Barnes
 * Harry Bell
 * Max Bennett
 * Dick Bittner
 * Garry Blaine
 * Chuck Blair
 * Dick Bouchard
 * Lionel Bouvrette
 * Barton Bradley
 * Stephane Brochu
 * Len Broderick
 * Mike Buchanan
 * Gord Byers
 * Don Caley
 * Claude Cardin
 * Dave Chartier
 * Tom Colley
 * Norman Collings
 * Les Colvin
 * Roger Cormier
 * Tommy Coulter
 * Wayne Cowley
 * Hugh Currie
 * Claude Cyr
 * Corrie D'Alessio
 * Nick Damore
 * Murray Davison
 * Jeff Daw
 * Bob DeCourcy
 * Armand Delmonte
 * Val Delory
 * Bill Dickie
 * Bruce Draper
 * Ken Duggan
 * Bob Dupuis
 * Henry Dyck
 * Trevor Fahey
 * Walt Farrant
 * Marcel Fillion
 * Peter Fiorentino
 * Jack Fraser
 * Rob Garner
 * Paul Gauthier
 * Bob Geale
 * Harrison Gray
 * Scott Harlow
 * Neil Hawryliw
 * Peter Hayek
 * Galen Head
 * Shawn Heaphy
 * Yves Heroux
 * Greg Hickey
 * Justin Hocking
 * Roland Huard
 * Paul Jacobs
 * Pauli Jaks
 * James Jamieson
 * Bobby Joliat
 * Joe Junkin
 * Mike Keating
 * Don Keenan
 * Chris Kelleher
 * Stan Kemp
 * Sergei Klimovich
 * Julian Klymkiw
 * Paul Knox
 * Rick LaFerriere
 * Rob Laird
 * Simon Lajeunesse
 * James Latos
 * Eric Lavigne
 * Ron Loustel
 * Ken Lovsin
 * Kevin MacDonald
 * Kim MacDougall
 * Ken Mann
 * Jack Martin
 * Jim McBurney
 * John McCahill
 * Bob McCulley
 * Darwin McCutcheon
 * Jeff McDill
 * Bob McDonald
 * Irv McGibbon
 * Tom McGratton
 * Ross McKay
 * Scott McKay
 * Hillary Menard
 * John Michaluk
 * Mike Minard
 * Lloyd Mohns
 * Jean-Guy Morissette
 * Dean Morton
 * Brian Murphy
 * Hal Murphy
 * Ed Nicholson
 * Igor Nikulin
 * Dan Olesevich
 * Darryl Olsen
 * Ted Ouimet
 * Paul Pageau
 * Bert Peer
 * Brad Ralph
 * Jake Rathwell
 * Alain Raymond
 * Greg Redquest
 * Gord Reid
 * Bob Ring
 * Alex Ritson
 * Moe Robinson
 * Bob Sabourin
 * Dave Salvian
 * Darin Sceviour
 * Brandy Semchuk
 * Vern Smith
 * Red Spooner
 * Martin St. Amour
 * Alan Staley
 * Brian Stapleton
 * Frank Steele
 * Bud Stefanski
 * Phil Stein
 * Jim Stewart
 * Barry Sullivan
 * Spence Tatchell
 * Alan Teal
 * Vic Teal
 * Glenn Tomalty
 * Kirk Tomlinson
 * David Van Drunen
 * Alexei Vasiliev
 * Alex Wellington
 * Len Wharton
 * Rod Willard
 * Jordan Willis
 * Bob Wilson
 * Murray Wing
 * Alex Wood
 * Bob Wood
 * Bill Wylie
 * Martin Zoborosky

Bob Price
hockeyDB lists him as having played a game with the original Senators during the 1919-20 season, but NHL.com, Legends of Hockey, and Hockey-Reference do not list him at all. Even if such a player did in fact play in the NHL, there isn't enough info available to justify an article. --24.152.220.10 (talk) 23:00, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Likely he has another name in other sources. This happens often for players from that era. I will look further. -DJSasso (talk) 14:34, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
 * If he had another name, you would expect that other name to show up here and here. HockeyDB lists 12 players, one of which is Price, for the 1919-20 Senators and the others only list 11 players - Benedict, Boucher, Broadbent, Bruce, Cleghorn, Darragh, Denneny, Gerard, MacKell/McKell, Merrill, and Nighbor. Hockey Databank, one of the data sources listed for hockey-reference, refers to Price here as a "probable phantom." --24.152.220.10 (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah feel free to remove him if you want. My guess is he was a guy they randomly put in a uniform for a game due to emergency but who was probably not an actual player. If we can't verify him though he has to go. -DJSasso (talk) 13:25, 7 December 2010 (UTC)

Notability tag
It needs to be established that playing exactly one game is significant. While many sources of the article establish that certain players have played just 1 game, what makes playing exactly one game a significant designation p  b  p  23:27, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * It's not a significant designation - it's a frivolous designation. As it says above this list was originally created in 2005 to prevent the creation of stubs, but that eventually became outdated (other than the one NHL game, most players on this list probably had minor league careers that meet current WP:Hockey notability requirements) and now every player on the list has their own article. Perhaps this article's deletion is a bit overdue.
 * It's interesting how List of NHL players who were not drafted has the opposite problem in the sense that if a player was undrafted and made it to the NHL it is somewhat notable, but there doesn't appear to be an outside reference that can be cited listing every (or most) undrafted players. Even the individual NHL.com pages (as well as hockey-reference.com, hockeydb.com, eliteprospects.com, and so on) don't have a field marking a player as undrafted. --72.25.51.187 (talk) 05:35, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * . Hockeydb, Hockey Hall of Fame. Resolute 16:27, 2 December 2013 (UTC)


 * We don't have to have Wikipedia articles on every single statistic or list on a sports website. Resolute, what makes 1 game notable and 2 games not-notable?  If we keep this, there's a logical argument for making a list of hockey players for every number (or range) of games played, and we don't need that  p  b  p  21:09, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Nonsense. You're invoking other stuff exists for your argument.Echoedmyron (talk) 21:26, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * To clarify: that comment is directed at the nominator, not Resolute...Echoedmyron (talk) 21:27, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
 * And neither you nor Resolute has explained why this one is notable. p  b  p  21:31, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Merging it with Cup of coffee, which is in the Ice hockey terminology category, and only listing the notable one-gamers such as Don Cherry and the four goal scorers might be an option. --72.25.51.187 (talk) 01:02, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
 * "Cup of coffee" is not synonymous with playing only one game. Resolute 19:54, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Under contract with an NHL team
2014–15 season: Tom McCollum (DET), Scott Glennie (DAL), Keith Kinkaid (NJ), Spencer Abbott (TOR), Bill Arnold (CGY), Mitch Callahan (DET), Jack Campbell (DAL), Ben Chiarot (WPG), Joacim Eriksson (VAN), Petter Granberg (TOR), Andrew Hammond (OTT), Magnus Hellberg (NAS), Alexander Khokhlachev (BOS), Cody Kunyk (TB), Alexei Marchenko (DET), Greg McKegg (TOR), Julian Melchiori (WPG), Jonathan Racine (FLA), Kent Simpson (NYI), Ryan Sproul (DET), Mark Van Guilder (NAS), Mark Visentin (ARI), Joe Whitney (NJ) --208.123.178.130 (talk) 21:53, 13 October 2014 (UTC)

Inclusion Criteria related to active players
I think that this page should probably have some sort of inclusion criteria that omits active players or at least active players with a contract that would allow them to play NHL hockey easily in the foreseeable future. For example, Dalton Smith, an active AHL player on the Colorado Eagles is on this list. While there is no guarantee he plays another game in the NHL in the future, it would not be shocking to see him on Avs in the future at some point. TartarTorte 20:45, 20 July 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree. When I created this article many years ago, I had set a five-year minimum since last game played. At some point in time that was removed. Masterhatch (talk) 23:03, 20 July 2022 (UTC)