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.

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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.

Maurice Richard
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Richard Scott

Richard Scott
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Scott Gordon

Scott Gordon
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Gordon Mark

Gordon Mark
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Mark Stuart

Mark Stuart
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Stuart Percy

Stuart Percy
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Percy Jackson

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Be sure to check out our MLB Name Game too, and for a slightly different take, hoops-fans/nomenclaturists will enjoy our NBA Name Game.