This page provides a recommended format and other information for aticles about ice hockey players. All of the examples are taken from Scott Walker except for some goaltender specific stuff. Obviously, not all articles will conform to this standard (ex. Wayne Gretzky and Billy Boucher). However, it would be fabulous if all the hockey player pages had the same, "look and feel".

Article Sections

The first paragraph should be a very short introduction. Some people like to put the person's position in, that is perfectly acceptable and probably preferred. The team that the person plays for should not be listed here, rather it should be noted in the Playing Career section below. Do not say that the player "was" a hockey player unless he is deceased, rather say that he is a retired hockey player.

The following line is a good example of an Introduction:

Scott Walker (born July 19, 1973, in Cambridge, Ontario), is a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He plays right wing, but prior to the 1996-97 NHL season he played defense.

The next section should be in paragraph form and provide an overview of the player's career. It should note which draft the player was drafted in (or if the player was undrafted the article should note that fact). Drafts should be formated as: [[1999 NHL Entry Draft]] (most of the draft year articles have not been completed but this way the links will be there when they get finished).

When noting the year that player did something in the NHL, use the [[2001-02 NHL season]] tags.

The following is an example of a Playing Career section:

Playing career

Scott Walker was selected 124th overall, in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. He was selected as the 4th choice of the Vancouver Canucks on June 26, 1993. Exactly five years later on June 26, 1998 he was chosen by the Predators in the expansion draft. He currently plays for the Nashville Predators.

Walker became the highest-scoring player in Nashville Predators history during the 2003-04 NHL season. At that time he was one of only three remaining original Predators on the Nashville roster (along with Greg Johnson and Tomas Vokoun).

He played 589 regular season NHL games over ten seasons before making it to post season play. That is the second longest wait in NHL history. Only Guy Charron played more games without making the playoffs. Charron retired in 1981 after 734 games, before he ever played a single post season game.

He has two career hat tricks. The first came December 26, 2000 against the Colorado Avalanche at the Gaylord Entertainment Center in Nashville. The first two goals were against David Aebischer and the third was into an empty net. His second hat trick came against the Phoenix Coyotes on December 22, 2002, also in Nashville. All three goals came against Brian Boucher.

He was the first person to ever score an NHL goal at Glendale Arena when on December 27, 2003 he got the puck past Sean Burke at 14:17 of the first period in the arena's first hockey game.

When Greg Johnson was sidlined with injuries, Walker served as the Predator's interim captain from January 12 - January 25, 2003.

After the playing career should come the awards section. This should be a bulleted list of any awards the player has earned. They don't necessarily have to be great awards (like the Norris Trophy or Lady Byng). Try to put them in chronological order if possible.

The following is an example of an Awards section:

Awards

Named to the OHL Second All-Star Team in 1993.
Member of the Owen Sound Platers' Mastercard All-Time Team.
NHL's Offensive Player of the Week for December 22-28, 2003.

The next section should be a bulleted list of any records the person holds. It is acceptable to list records the person no longer holds, as long is it is noted who took the record from them, and when the record was taken from them.

The records listed can be of any level of notoriety (obviously not everyone is Wayne Gretzky). They can be for a franchise, nation, or league. Be sure and note what type of record (team record, league record, etc.) the person holds.

The following is an example of a Records section:

Records

Nashville Predator's franchise record for points in a season (67)
Nashville Predator's franchise record for career points (231)
Nashville Predator's franchise record for career goals (91)
Nashville Predator's franchise record for PIM (429)
NHL record for games played before making the post season (589) -- (Guy Charron played 734 but he never appeared in the post season).

The next section should be a wikitable of the player's statistics. The look and feel of the table should be the same across all players. There can be more than one totals section, but be sure to include the NHL (or highest league played in) totals. Do not include statistics from international competition, these will be included in the International Comeptition section below.

Golie stats and Skater stats are necessarily different.

The following is an example of a Career Stats section for a skater:

Career statistics

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1991-92	Owen Sound	OHL	53	7	31	38	128	5	0	7	7	8
1992-93	Owen Sound	OHL	57	23	68	91	110	8	1	5	6	16
1993-94	Hamilton	AHL	77	10	29	39	272	4	0	1	1	25
1994-95	Syracuse	AHL	74	14	38	52	334	--	--	--	--	--
1994-95	Vancouver	NHL	11	0	1	1	33	--	--	--	--	--
1995-96	Syracuse	AHL	15	3	12	15	52	16	9	8	17	39
1995-96	Vancouver	NHL	63	4	8	12	137	--	--	--	--	--
1996-97	Vancouver	NHL	64	3	15	18	132	--	--	--	--	--
1997-98	Vancouver	NHL	59	3	10	13	164	--	--	--	--	--
1998-99	Nashville	NHL	71	15	25	40	103	--	--	--	--	--
1999-00	Nashville	NHL	69	7	21	28	90	--	--	--	--	--
2000-01	Nashville	NHL	74	25	29	54	66	--	--	--	--	--
2001-02	Nashville	NHL	28	4	5	9	18	--	--	--	--	--
2002-03	Nashville	NHL	60	15	18	33	58	--	--	--	--	--
2003-04	Nashville	NHL	75	25	42	67	94	6	0	1	1	6
NHL Totals			574	101	174	275	895	6	0	1	1	6

Blank version

			Regular season					Playoffs
Season	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
year	team name	league	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1992-93	team	league	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
NHL totals			-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

The following is an example of a Career Stats section for a goalie (from Tomas Vokoun):

Career statistics

Regular season


Season	Team	League	GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA
1993--94	Kladno	Czech	1	0	0	0	20	2	0	6.00
1994--95	Kladno	Czech	26	--	--	--	1368	70	--	3.07
1995--96	Wheeling	ECHL	35	20	10	2	1912	117	0	3.67
1996--97	Montreal	NHL	1	0	0	0	20	4	0	12.00
1996--97	Fredericton	AHL	47	12	26	7	2645	154	2	3.49
1997--98	Fredericton	AHL	31	13	13	2	1735	90	0	3.11
1998--99	Nashville	NHL	37	12	18	4	1954	96	1	2.95
1998--99	Milwaukee	IHL	9	3	2	4	539	22	1	2.45
1999--00	Nashville	NHL	33	9	20	1	1879	87	1	2.78
1999--00	Milwaukee	IHL	7	5	2	0	364	17	0	2.80
2000--01	Nashville	NHL	37	13	17	5	2088	85	2	2.44
2001--02	Nashville	NHL	29	5	14	4	1471	66	2	2.69
2002--03	Nashville	NHL	69	25	31	11	3974	146	3	2.20
2003--04	Nashville	NHL	73	34	29	10	4221	178	3	2.53
NHL CAREER TOTALS			279	98	129	35	15606	662	12	2.55

Post season


Season	Team	League	GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA
1994--95	Kladno	Czech	5	--	--	--	240	19	--	4.75
1995--96	Wheeling	ECHL	7	4	3	--	436	19	0	2.61
1995--96	Fredericton	AHL	1	0	1	--	59	4	0	4.09
1998--99	Milwaukee	IHL	2	0	2	--	149	8	0	3.22
2003--04	Nashville	NHL	6	2	4		356	12	1	2.02
NHL Totals			6	2	4		356	12	1	2.02

The final section is the international play section. If the player does not have a lot of international play, this can be a simple bullet list and stats. Or if the player has significant interational play (ie. Ivan Hlinka) then the section could be significantly larger (or the content could be included in Playing Career above).

The following is an example of an International Play section:

International play

Played for Team Canada in the 1999 World Championships.
Team Canada assistant captain at the 2001 World Championships.

International statistics

Year	Team	Event	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1999	Canada	WC	10	2	3	5	16
2001	Canada	WC	7	3	3	6	10

Categories Used for Players

Each player will typically have several categories to which they will belong. Each player should have a category for their nationality and for each team that he or she has ever been member. Also if the player played Major Junior in the CHL, they player should have a category for the league they played in and what junior teams they developed in.

for more information on ice hockey categorization see: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ice Hockey/Category structure.

The following is an example of the code for the categories:

[[Category:Canadian ice hockey players|Walker, Scott]]

[[Category:Nashville Predators players|Walker, Scott]]

[[Category:Vancouver Canucks players|Walker, Scott]]

[[Category:Owen Sound Attack alumni|Walker, Scott]]

[[Category:OHL alumni|Walker, Scott]]

If Player Articles are Not Formatted

If a player's article is not formatted according to this standard, then their name should be included at: Wikipedia:List of unformatted ice hockey players.

If you are looking for something to do, go to that list, pick a player and format the page.

Player Images

You can get and upload images to Wikipedia from the NHLPA Website. You're free to take and use any of the lo-res player pics that are available on the site, as they are distributed freely by the teams. Hi-resolution player pics, however, must be licensed from Getty Images, and therefore most likely cannot be on Wikipedia. So keep the NHLPA images below 200px.