Which current players will own their sweater numbers in NHL?

Hockey historian John Kreiser has done some of the most interesting hockey writing of the summer on NHL.com, and his latest project could be his greatest: The best NHL players for each sweater number, from No. 00 to No. 99. (That No. 99? You guessed it: Wilf Paiement.) It's obviously not the first time this has been done: Publications spanning the spectrum from Sports Illustrated to the Bleacher Report have done variations on it. But Kreiser's analysis and honorable mentions turned his project into something in-depth and special: Here are Nos. 00-33, Nos. 34-66 and Nos. 67-99. Some numbers on these lists are cemented with specific names in hockey history: Gordie Howe is No. 9, Wayne Gretzky is No. 99, Bobby Orr is No. 4 and Mario Lemieux is No. 66. So it is in 2010, so it shall be in 2050. Other numbers are simply waiting for their standard-bearer to arrive: According to Kreiser, Arron Asham is No. 45, with Jody Shelley and Dmitri Kalinin in the mix. Taylor Hall could ann...