Who wore number 48 in NHL?

Athletes in every team sport have a number on their jersey to identify them. In the NHL, players are given numbers between 1 and 98. Sometimes, players get to choose their own number and other times, they’re just assigned a number by the team.

Tomas Hertl

Tomáš Hertl is a Czech professional ice hockey player known as the forward and alternate captain for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hertl was selected 17th overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Sharks. He is the first player born in the modern Czech Republic after the dissolution of Czechoslovakia to appear in an NHL game.

Prior to being drafted, Hertl played for HC Slavia Praha of the Czech Extraliga.

Scott Young

Scott Allen Young is an American former professional ice hockey right winger and a member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. In July 2017 he was named director of player development for the Pittsburgh Penguins.

He is a two-time Stanley Cup champion, winning in 1991 with the Pittsburgh Penguins and 1996 with the Colorado Avalanche. He also played with the Hartford Whalers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, St. Louis Blues, and Dallas Stars.

Daniel Briere

Daniel Jean-Claude Brière is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and executive. He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the Phoenix Coyotes, and also played for the Buffalo Sabres, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens and Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League (NHL).

He is best known as one of the top Stanley Cup Playoffs performers in NHL history, with 116 points in 124 career playoff games.

Internationally, Brière won four gold medals in as many appearances with Team Canada at the 1994 World U18 Championships, 1997 World Junior Championships, and the 2003 and 2004 World Championships.

He’s also known for running day-to-day operations for the Maine Mariners (ECHL).

Tyler Kennedy

Tyler Kennedy is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played nine seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils. He was selected by the Penguins in the fourth round, 99th overall, of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

J.J. Daigneault

Jean-Jacques Daigneault is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 2000. He was the head coach of the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2019 to 2021. He also served as an assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL from 2012 until the end of the 2017–18 NHL season.

Cam Brown

Richard Cameron Brown is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played one game for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League.

Brown was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

In 2009, Brown was named to the ECHL Hall of Fame Class of 2010 and was inducted into the ECHL Hall of Fame during the 2010 ECHL All-Star Game in Ontario, California. He was the ECHL’s all-time leader in penalty minutes until surpassed by Garet Hunt in the 2018–19 ECHL season.

Scott Daniels

Rory Scott Daniels is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. A Mistawasis First Nation aboriginal, Daniels was nicknamed “Chief” by his teammates due to his full-blooded Cree Indian background. At the age of 17, Daniels started his hockey career in the Western Hockey League (WHL) playing left wing for the Kamloops Blazers in 1986, and continued to play in the WHL for the New Westminster Bruins and then the Regina Pats until 1990.

Daniels was the 136th draft pick overall, for the Hartford Whalers, in 1989, but did not play his first National Hockey League (NHL) game until 1993. Daniels stood out to his coaches in his debut game by accumulating nineteen minutes in penalties; however, he continued to play in the American Hockey League (AHL) for the Springfield Indians until his second NHL game, in the 1994-95 season, again for the Hartford Whalers. In 1996 Daniels was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers, and later to the New Jersey Devils in 1997 where he played for two years before retiring from the NHL.

Dave Duerden

David N. Duerden is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played two games for the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League during the 1999–2000 NHL season. He was drafted 80th overall by the Panthers in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, but spent most of his time in the minor leagues. In 2001, he was traded to the New York Rangers for future considerations but was assigned to their ECHL affiliate the Charlotte Checkers after never playing a game for the Rangers. After one season with the Checkers he retired.

Colin Forbes

Colin Forbes is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Ottawa Senators, New York Rangers and Washington Capitals. Drafted 166th overall by the Flyers in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, Forbes played a total of nine seasons in the NHL.

Forbes played the last five seasons of his professional career in Europe with the Adler Mannheim and lastly ERC Ingolstadt of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

Morgan Frost

Morgan Frost is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). Frost was drafted in the first round, 27th overall, by the Flyers in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

Growing up, Frost would accompany his father Andy to Toronto Maple Leafs games, where he developed a passion for hockey. When he was 13 years old, Frost was cut from his local minor ice hockey team due to his size, but a coach for the Barrie Jr. Colts of the Eastern AAA Hockey League took him on for two seasons. Frost was then selected by the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds of the Ontario Hockey League, and had an opportunity to play with the team as a 16-year-old when Jared McCann joined the NHL, creating a vacancy on the team. Frost struggled as a rookie with his focus on goal-scoring, but soon developed into a two-way forward at the instruction of his coach Drew Bannister. This culminated in two consecutive seasons of Frost scoring 100 or more points, as well as an appearance for Canada at the 2019 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.

The Flyers traded forward Brayden Schenn in exchange for the draft selection that went to Frost, and he signed a contract with the team in August 2017. A groin injury affected Frost’s performance during training camp, and he was assigned to the Phantoms to start the 2019–20 season. He was successful in Lehigh, scoring 13 goals and 29 points in 41 games, but struggled during his NHL call-up. He began the 2020–21 NHL season as a bench player for the Flyers, but his opportunity to fill in for an injured Sean Couturier was derailed by a season-ending shoulder injury.

Brendan Lemieux

Brendan Lemieux is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player known as the left winger for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres in the second round, 31st overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft, and previously played in the NHL for the Winnipeg Jets and New York Rangers.

The son of former NHL player Claude Lemieux, Lemieux began playing hockey at a young age despite his father’s wishes, and spent his minor ice hockey career in the Greater Toronto Hockey League and The Hill Academy. Originally, he agreed to spend two years with the Green Bay Gamblers of the United States Hockey League before attending the University of North Dakota, but he abandoned both commitments after being drafted by the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in 2012. Lemieux’s strong performance during his second year of junior ice hockey made him an attractive prospect going into the 2014 NHL draft, and his family was disappointed that he was not taken in the first round. While still playing with Barrie, Lemieux was traded to Winnipeg, with whom he signed a contract in July 2015. He finished his junior hockey career with the Windsor Spitfires after a midseason trade during the 2015–16 OHL season.

Lemieux began his professional hockey career playing for the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League during the 2016–17 AHL season. He cracked Winnipeg’s NHL roster for the 2018–19 season, but received only limited ice time, and was traded to the Rangers that February in exchange for Kevin Hayes. His development during the 2019–20 season was impeded first by a fractured hand and then by the interruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Partway through the 2020–21 season, Lemieux was traded to the Kings, where he followed his father into becoming a pest and agitator on the lower offensive lines.

Lemieux has referred to his father as his “biggest role model on and off the ice”, and has modeled his style of play after Claude, a notorious pest and agitator. He has said that he puts little effort into making comments and motions that irritate his opponents, and that agitation is “the part that comes natural” to playing hockey. His role as an agitator, in coercing opponents into taking penalties, has proven effective: during the 2019–20 season, Lemieux took seven penalties of his own while drawing 19 from opposing teams.

Some sportswriters have criticized Lemieux for focusing solely on developing his aggressive playing style rather than producing offensively: through 109 games with the Rangers, he recorded only 11 goals and 31 points. Lemieux’s aggressive style of play has also been criticized by opposing skaters. Prior to be being suspended for biting Ottawa Senators’ captain Brady Tkachuk twice during a game, Tkachuk referred to Lemieux as “gutless”, saying he was “just a complete brick head”.

Olli Juolevi

Olli Juolevi is a Finnish professional ice hockey defenceman known for playing with the Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected fifth overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft. Born and raised in Finland, Juolevi developed in the Jokerit program before he moved to North America to play major junior hockey with the Ontario Hockey League (OHL)’s London Knights in 2015. After one season with London, he was drafted by the Canucks.

Internationally, Juolevi has represented Finland in World Junior Championships, winning gold at the 2016 tournament.

Konstantin Koltsov

Konstantin Yevgeniyevich Koltsov is a Belarusian former professional ice hockey player who last played for HC Dinamo Minsk in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He played parts of three seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League between 2002 and 2006. Internationally Koltsov played for the Belarusian national team at the 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics and at nine World Championships.

Alexander Korolyuk

Alexander Ivanovich Korolyuk is a Russian former professional ice hockey winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the San Jose Sharks before playing the remainder of his career in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Korolyuk was drafted in the sixth round, 141st overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.