Phil Esposito

I thought my first hockey post should be dedicated to one of my all-time favorite players. Now I know I'm 27 years old, I never got to see the guy play. But I've watched enough video footage and heard a lot of his stories on XM Home Ice, and from reading his book Thunder and Lightning: A No B.S. Hockey Memoir, to understand what a player and personality the guy was and still is to this day.

I wear #7 whenever I play hockey. He's not the reason I picked the number, but he's sure as hell the reason I will always wear it from this day forward.

Check out this short 9 minute biography on Espo, it's certainly worth any hockey fans time!