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The Top Ranked Hockey Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1956
Notes: This is a list of the greatest hockey players to start their pro career in the year listed.
| Rnk | Athlete | POS | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Norm Ullman | C | 50 |
| 2 | John Bucyk | LW | 75 |
| 3 | Pierre Pilote | D | 110 |
| 4 | Henri Richard | C | 120 |
| 5 | Claude Provost | RW | 505 |
| 6 | Andy Hebenton | RW | 518 |
| 7 | Jean-Guy Gendron | LW | 1034 |
| 8 | Billy Harris (1935) | C | 1118 |
| 9 | Al MacNeil | D | 1146 |
| 10 | Bob Turner | D | 1252 |
| 11 | Bronco Horvath | C | 1603 |
| 12 | Ed Chadwick | G | 1771 |
| 13 | Viktor Konovalenko | G | 2495 |
| 14 | Hank Ciesla | C | 2535 |
| 15 | Bill Cleary | C | 2699 |
| 16 | Juhani Wahlsten | C | 3085 |
| 17 | Ulf Sterner | LW | 3182 |
| 18 | Nils Nilsson | C | 3256 |
| 19 | Barry Cullen | RW | 3276 |
| 20 | Eduard Ivanov | D | 3405 |
| 21 | Masahiro Sato | RW | 3460 |
| 22 | Pertti Nieminen | LW | 3660 |
| 23 | Hans Rampf | C | 3680 |
| 24 | Bob Forhan | RW | 3915 |
| 25 | Jeff Deslauriers | D | 3962 |
| 26 | Carl-Goran Oberg | LW | 4404 |
| 27 | Raimo Kilpio | LW | 4567 |
| 28 | Hans Svedberg | D | 4985 |
| 29 | Gert Blome | D | 5063 |
| 30 | Weldy Olson | RW | 5155 |
| 31 | Christian Petersen | C | 5161 |
| 32 | Georg Eberl | RW | 5581 |
| 33 | John Thomas | RW | 5796 |
| 34 | Seppo Nikkila | LW | 5954 |
| 35 | Sylwester Wilczek | C | 5975 |
| 36 | Kalevi Rassa | C | 6185 |
| 37 | Augustyn Skorski | D | 6250 |
| 38 | Peter Parrott | RW | 6559 |
| 39 | Shoichi Tomita | G | 6900 |
| 40 | Frantisek Gregor | D | 6918 |
| 41 | Francesco Macchietto | C | 7027 |
| 42 | Heinz Bader | D | 7271 |
| 43 | Franz Berry | LW | 7756 |
| 44 | Manfred Buder | C | 7819 |
| 45 | Walter Salzmann | C | 7859 |
| 46 | Minoru Nakano | LW | 7944 |
| 47 | Gyorgy Raffa | D | 7963 |
| 48 | Kimio Kazahari | LW | 8433 |
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