Ed Belfour played 17 seasons (1989–2007) for Chicago Blackhawks, San Jose Sharks, Dallas Stars and 2 other clubs. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1991. Led the league in a statistical category 2 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
17 seasons · peak 28.1 in 1991 · league-best season: 1991
Career boards only, within NHL
On the NHL Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 98.7th percentile among NHL careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
NHL Age Milestones — Youngest to 100 Goals, 500 Points, 50 Goals and 100 PointsNHL Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsNHL Career Arc TypesNHL Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesNHL Clutch Delta — Who Rises in the Stanley Cup PlayoffsNHL Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeNHL Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-Bust
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Rosters, bio, draft details, and season/career totals come directly from the NHL's own official public API.
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VAL (Value Above League) measures each NHL season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
49.5 career wins over 17 seasons · 1 win = 3.52 VAL
Best season · 1991 · +8.0 wins
Latest season · 2007 · +0.9 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a NHL player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Ed Belfour led or placed top-ten on a NHL season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
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2
league-leading seasons · 20 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1991, 17 rated seasons.
Season boards
20
top-ten finishes across the NHL season boards
Ed Belfour's 1991 season ranks among the most statistically extreme in NHL history — measured only against its own season and position-group peers (robust z, never blended across eras).
Ed Belfour's 1991 season, re-projected onto the 2026 league — its within-era standing expressed in one modern currency (VAL), so it ranks beside today's best in NHL history.
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Wore 5 distinct franchise crests across 19 seasons (1989–2007) — a true nomad. The crest trail: