15 Biggest Jerks in the NHL Right Now

By Darrell Samuels

September 4, 2015

The 15 Biggest Jerks in the NHL Right Now

Bettman — In all aspects of our lives, everyone has people who tend to rub us the wrong way and we try and work around their shortcomings. However, there are also times when people's behavior leads us to feel that they are jerks. Well, the same thing applies in professional sports and certainly within the NHL. The following 15 names are men whom I feel are definite candidates to be huge jerks.

In all aspects of our lives, everyone has people who tend to rub us the wrong way and we try and work around their shortcomings. However, there are also times when people's behavior leads us to feel that they are jerks. Well, the same thing applies in professional sports and certainly within the NHL. The following 15 names are men whom I feel are definite candidates to be huge jerks.

15. James Neal, Nashville Predators

Neal is a prolific goal scorer for the Nashville Predators. However, he has a history of delivering questionable hits with one of hockey’s no-no’s in delivering knee-on-knee contact. Neal was one of the best at it. Throughout his tenure in the NHL he is known to put up at least 20 goals a season, but the physicality makes him a world class jerk.

14. Chris Pronger, Arizona Coyotes

Chris Pronger is a current day NHL player with the Arizona Coyotes, but has not played since November, 2011 as a member of the Philadelphia Flyers. He has not officially retired but will probably never play in the game again. He has been a jerk throughout his entire career for his dirty plays. He is a guy who you would love to have on your team, but a real jerk to players having to play against him.

11. Alex Ovechkin, Washington Capitals

Granted, he is one of the best players currently in the NHL but he is not immune from being a jerk. Whenever Ovechkin scores a goal today, the image remains of him placing his stick on the ice and pretending he had a ‘hot stick’. It was fresh and new and a light hearted suggestive statement by Ovechkin, but he sometimes goes too far.