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The Top Ranked Hockey Players of All-Time by Rookie Year-1961
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 | Jean Ratelle | C | 55 |
| 2 | Rod Gilbert | RW | 81 |
| 3 | Dave Keon | C | 181 |
| 4 | Bobby Rousseau | RW | 232 |
| 5 | Cesare Maniago | G | 350 |
| 6 | Ted Green | D | 595 |
| 7 | Gilles Tremblay | LW | 831 |
| 8 | Bruce MacGregor | C | 926 |
| 9 | Wayne Connelly | C | 980 |
| 10 | Orland Kurtenbach | C | 1327 |
| 11 | Gary Jarrett | LW | 1397 |
| 12 | Leon Rochefort | RW | 1622 |
| 13 | Gerry Odrowski | D | 1823 |
| 14 | Howie Young | D | 2519 |
| 15 | Alexander Ragulin | D | 2660 |
| 16 | Anatoly Firsov | LW | 2706 |
| 17 | Albin Felc | C | 2916 |
| 18 | Viktor Tisler | LW | 3063 |
| 19 | Jean Gauthier | D | 3080 |
| 20 | Don Johns | D | 3139 |
| 21 | Jan Suchy | D | 3236 |
| 22 | Yevgeny Mishakov | LW | 3415 |
| 23 | Ray Cadieux | RW | 3569 |
| 24 | Wayne Hicks | RW | 3808 |
| 25 | Lothar Fuchs | C | 3888 |
| 26 | Cliff Pennington | C | 4323 |
| 27 | Franc Smolej | C | 4438 |
| 28 | Jozef Stefaniak | C | 4466 |
| 29 | Peter Lax | LW | 4725 |
| 30 | Aleksandr Ragulin | D | 4876 |
| 31 | Gyorgy Rozgonyi | C | 4938 |
| 32 | Arpad Bankuti | LW | 4983 |
| 33 | Paul Coppo | C | 5127 |
| 34 | Dan Dilworth | LW | 5162 |
| 35 | Alexandru Calamar | C | 5328 |
| 36 | Ciril Klinar | LW | 5701 |
| 37 | Seppo Lindstrom | D | 5730 |
| 38 | Bela Schwalm | C | 5767 |
| 39 | Kurt Pfammatter | RW | 6023 |
| 40 | Gerard Dubi | LW | 6142 |
| 41 | Wolfgang Plotka | D | 6170 |
| 42 | Oleg Zaytsev | D | 6499 |
| 43 | Igor Romishevsky | D | 6557 |
| 44 | Jan Klapac | RW | 6663 |
| 45 | Viktor Ravnik | D | 6810 |
| 46 | Ivo Ratej | D | 7065 |
| 47 | Kazuo Matsuda | C | 7082 |
| 48 | Henryk Handy | D | 7343 |
| 49 | Lennart Johansson | C | 7627 |
| 50 | Lalli Partinen | D | 7648 |
| 51 | Manfred Gmeiner | RW | 7761 |
| 52 | Bernd Poindl | C | 7877 |
| 53 | Wilfried Sock | D | 7904 |
| 54 | Peter Schwimmbeck | D | 8045 |
| 55 | Viktor Zinger | G | 8135 |
| 56 | Bruno Ghedina | LW | 8219 |
| 57 | Vasile Boldescu | D | 8231 |
| 58 | Bernd Herzig | RW | 8317 |
| 59 | Ion Tiriac | D | 8528 |
| 60 | Miran Krmelj | D | 8612 |
| 61 | Ivo Ghezze | C | 8671 |
| 62 | Janos Ziegler | D | 8732 |
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