Mark Messier remains the only player in NHL history to captain two different franchises to a Stanley Cup championship, achieving the feat in 1990 with the Edmonton Oilers and in 1994 with the New York Rangers. By the time “The Moose” came to Broadway in 1991, he was already a five-time champion, a one-time Hart Trophy winner, and a playoff MVP with the Oilers.
Despite skating in Wayne Gretzky’s shadow for most of the 1980s, Messier proved to the hockey world he was one of the game’s best players by winning without his former teammate.