The Two-Line Pass

If you're like me or every NHL player, you know someone that knows Mike Sillinger.

Mike Sillinger is the ultimate journeyman. A thread on HFBoards confirms this.

Since he began his career in the 1990-91 season with Detroit, he has only been on one team for an entire year eight times. He has been traded 12 times and played for 12 different teams. In the course of those journeys, he played with a lot of people. HFBoards poster “Axel” cooked up a list of everyone currently on an NHL roster Sillinger has ever played with, and it tops out at 561 players. FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE!

After some intensive studying at the end of last season, it was determined that almost every team in the league had someone on the roster that had played on the same team as Sillinger. The only exceptions were a few rookies on Dallas and Montreal. That’s three players in the whole league, the Habs’ Carey Price, and the Stars’ Mark Fistric and Matt Niskanen.

But now the circle is complete. The Stars recently signed Landon Wilson, who played with Sillinger in Phoenix in 2003, and the Habs signed Marc Denis, who played on Sillinger’s team in Columbus for two years.

Literally everyone in the NHL is two degrees from Mike Sillinger. Kevin Bacon, meanwhile, is insanely jealous.

For fun, here is Mike Sillinger’s hockey-reference page. It is insanely long.

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