I’ll throw out a few names for you
1. Dominik Hasek
2. Andre Racicot
3. Mats Sundin
4. Alexei Yashin
5. Jaromir Jagr

Oh, you owe me an email I judge

Mike,
You only have to read these forums or listen to talk radio in Detroit and Toronto to see what people reckon of him. His relationship with the media historically has not been a planetary one and I reckon he pays for it. His punch up with Buffalo reporter Jim Kelly (not the QB) was unfortunate only in that Hasek didn’t kill the SOB. His tenure in Ottawa was greeted daily with radio, television, or newspaper articles asking for his head….and the injury in Torino made the relationship with the fans in Ottawa and especially Bryan Murray a nightly beatdown.

their is so many players.. you can really go by the 90 years, you would have to go by each era.
For my player i would have to reckon it would be in the 2000′s just because more people in the NHL and fans of the sport to despise on the players. it is a toss up to Mr.Todd B or matts sundin. eather you like matts or despise him. my self i despise him

Todd Bertuzzi -his was warranted
Rocket Richard – once you realize the way the league treated him it was no wonder those eyes of his were so filled with fire.

Go back to the 1960′s……..there was a Canadiens’ defenseman by the name of Terry Harper, who bore the brunt of Montreal fans for years. He was a poor skater, a shot that couldn’t break an egg, and couldn’t fight to save his life, and regularly had other teams’ enforcers pounding tattoos on his face.
The culmination of the fans rage came in the third game of the 1971 finals, when he allowed Bobby Hull to get between him and the net, and score a goal which place the Blackhawks up 2-0 in the game.
But, the Canadiens did come back to tie the score, and then Harper did something that basically washed away all the years of animosity towards him. He picked up a loose puck inside his blue line and the boos from the fans started. But, as Harper went up ice, he place on a puck handling show that shocked the hell out of everyone…..he dodged every Blackhawk player who took a run at him, and finished up on the left of the Blackhawks net….and then took what was described as a “kidney unhinging hit” from two Blackhawk players who simultaneously rammed him into the boards. Harper still didn’t lose the puck…he managed to pass it out to John Ferguson in front of the Blackhawk net, and Ferguson scored what was to be the winning goal in this game.
When the goal was announced Harper got a larger and longer ovation than Ferguson did, and it seemed that the fans finally figured out that Harper wasn’t the useless goof they thought him to be.
While this was the feel-excellent tale of the playoffs, the rest of the Montreal players weren’t so charitable towards the fans. As one player said, where the fans were concerned,what Harper did was the best “f— you” gesture he’d ever seen. Another player stated that he had to resist turning around, and flipping the finger to all the fans in the Montreal Forum.
But, why the fans never liked Harper is a mystery. No, he wasn’t a classy player, nor a excellent fighter when the time came. But, the Canadiens never traded him during all these years because they knew what a skilled defensemen he was, and Bobby Hull, along with a lot of other stars in the NHL, said Harper was one of the most formidable defensemen they had ever encountered. As for his fighting abilities, while always dying a poor second, he never let a less vital or more talented teammate, such as Cournoyer take a pounding. Yeah, he took the poundings, but in doing so, save a few of his teammates from taking one.
As far as I am concerned, Terry Harper was done a grave, and egregious injustice by the Montreal fans for years.

Bobby Hull for making the jump to the fledgling WHA and basically putting the league in business. His decison was ripped by NHL management and mocked by fans & the cozy NHL-aligned media.