What modern era nhl player has won the most Stanley cups?

Answer 1

That would depend on what you consider the "modern era". If you are referring to the post 1967 expansion, then Jacque Lemaire and Yan Cournayer both have 8 cups (All with Montreal between '68-79).

If you are referring the consumption of the WHA (post 1980), the Glenn Anderson and Mark Messier have 6 (5 with Edmonton between '84-90 and 1 with the New York Rangers in 1994).

Modern Era could also refer to the current 30 team format (2001 and later). As of the 2011 Stanley Cup there are 21 Players who have won 2 (7 players from the 2002 and the 2008 cup winning Detroit Red Wings, including Dominik Hasek, Chris Chelios, Darren McCarty, Chris Draper, Pavel Datsyuk, Kirk Maltby and Nick Lindstrom) + Chris Dingman and Nolan Pratt ('01, '04),Oleg Tverdovsky ('03, '06), Scott Niedermayer ('03, '07), Brian Rafalski ('03, '08), Ruslan Fedotenko ('03,09), John Madden ('03, 2010), Cory Stillman ('04, '06), Craig Adams ('06, '09), Andrew Ladd ('06, 2010), Mark Recchi ('06, 2011), Chris Kunitz ('07, '09), Shawn Thorton ('07, 2011) and Tomas Kopecky('08, 2010).

Finally, The modern era might refer to just the post 2004-2005 lockout. In which case 6 players have 2 cups (Adams, Thorton, Ladd, Recchi, Kunitz, Kopecky).