Player Coiuntdown - 99-90

90 - Joe Juneau - Juneau, a college star at RPI, started his career with a bang, he had 32 goals and 102 points for Boston in 1992-93, his second NHL season. He never came close to those numbers again, but finished with 156 goals and 572 points in 828 games. Juneau is one of only three players to wear No. 90 (Mike Modano will be the fourth with Detroit this season), and the only one to do so for more than one season.

91 - Sergei Fedorov - Like Mogilny, his linemate in Russia, he defected to North America and became a star. Fedorov could score (he went 56-64-120 in 1993-94, when he won the Hart Trophy), but he was more than just a one-way player, he won the Selke Trophy twice, including in his 120-point season. Fedorov was part of three Cup-winners in Detroit and mentored Alex Ovechkin for a couple of seasons in Washington before leaving the NHL with 483 goals and 1,179 points in 1,248 games.
Runner-up: Butch Goring, Brad Richards, Steven Stamkos, John Tavares

92 - Michael Nylander - Nylander wore No. 92 for most of an NHL career that saw him total 209 goals and 679 points in 920 games. His best seasons came in his early 30s, when he put up 79 and 83 points with the Rangers while centering a line that included Jaromir Jagr and Martin Straka.
Runner-up: Jeff O'Neill

 

93 - Doug Gilmour - Gilmour switched from No. 39 to No. 93 when he was dealt to Toronto from Calgary in January 1992, and promptly put up back-to-back seasons of 127 and 111 points in his first two full seasons with the Leafs. He never matched those numbers again, but was among the NHL's most intense players for another decade before retiring with 450 goals and 1,414 points in 1,474 games.
Runner-up: Petr Nedved Johan Franzen

94 - Ryan Smyth - Smyth has worn his draft year since breaking into the NHL with Edmonton, and he's spent 15 seasons making life as miserable as possible for opposing goaltenders. He's never matched the 39 goals he scored in 1996-97, his first full NHL season, but he's connected for 332 goals, most of them scored from right in front of the net.
Runner-up: Yanic Perreault

95 - Aleksey Morozov - Pittsburgh took Morozov in the first round of the 1995 Entry Draft and had him in the NHL in 1997 at age 20. His talent was apparent from the start, but despite scoring 20 goals in 2001-02 and 50 points in 2003-04 at age 26, he went back to Russia during the work stoppage and has opted to stay there. Morozov is one of only five players to wear No. 95, and the only one to do so in more than one season.

96 - Tomas Holmstrom - Two players with far better career numbers than Holmstrom, Pavel Bure (three seasons) and Phil Housley (one), both had encounters with No. 96. But no one who's worn it full-time has ever been better than Holmstrom, who has earned each and every one of the 214 goals he's scored by getting in the face of opposing goaltenders. He's got the bruises to prove it, though his four Stanley Cup rings are plenty of consolation.
Runner-up: Pierre-Marc Bouchard
97 - Jeremy Roenick - Roenick never was the offensive force wearing No. 97 that he'd been wearing No. 27, the number he sported for his first eight NHL seasons with Chicago. He made the switch after being dealt to Phoenix in 1996 and kept it through stints with Philadelphia and Los Angeles before going back to No. 27 in his last two seasons with San Jose. He never was a 50-goal man in his new number, but Roenick did have seven consecutive 20-goal seasons wearing it.
Runner-up: Rostislav Klesla

98 - Brian Lawton - Lawton, the first U.S. high school player ever taken with the No. 1 pick in the draft, wore No. 98 for his first two seasons with the Minnesota North Stars before downsizing to No. 8. The change helped his game, he went from 5 goals to scoring 18, 21 and 17 in the next three seasons. But that was as good as it got for Lawton, whose NHL playing career ended at age 27, though he's gone on to be an agent and general manager. He's the only player to wear No. 98.

99 - Wayne Gretzky - There actually have been three other players (Wilf Paiement and Rick Dudley in the early 1980s, and Joe Lamb with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1930s) who also wore No. 99. But Gretzky, who idolized Gordie Howe but couldn't get No. 9 when he started playing junior hockey because a teammate had it, has turned No. 99 into the most recognizable number in hockey. No player in hockey, and maybe in any sport, is as identified with a number as Gretzky is with No. 99, and with his number retired throughout the League, The Great One and the NHL's last two-digit number figure to stay that way for a long time.