6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 15 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: The list of #8s isn't out yet but I guess it's worth mentioning that Peter McNab is another one of those guys like Pit Martin with a hell of a career that just doesn't get talked about too much 40 years later. Did most of his body of work in Boston but had well over 800 points in almost a thousand games. Seven straight 70 point seasons with four of them 80+. Ten 20 goal seasons, one of them with the Canucks. Some of those seasons with 40 goals. An absolute monster for Boston in the 1978 playoffs. He and Brad Park were the class of the Bruins in leading the team to the Stanley Cup Final...and third on the team in scoring was former Canuck Bobby Schmautz. Like Pit Martin and a few of the other guys I mentioned earlier, for a long time Peter McNab was one of the best players to ever wear a Canucks jersey. Not to usurp @Coconuts's role, but since you mentioned it... Danny Johnson 1971-1972 Wayne Connelly 1972 Bobby Schmautz 1973-1981 Gerry Meehan 1975 Rick Blight 1976-1981 Moe Lemay 1982 Jim Nill 1982-1984 Peter McNab 1984-1985 Taylor Hall 1986-1987 Greg Adams 1988-1995 Alek Stojanov 1996 Donald Brashear 1997-2002 Marek Malík 2003-2004 Jozef Balej 2006 Eric Weinrich 2006 Willie Mitchell 2007-2010 Chris Tanev 2012-2020 Jordie Benn 2021 Conor Garland 2022-2024 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 Appreciate it, thanks for stepping up 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 As for another lesser known (at least for his work as a player) #8, Jim Nill was a pretty substantial part of the 1982 run to the final and scored the double overtime game winner in game 1 of the semifinal against Chicago. Against Tony Esposito. The game was actually an incredible duel between King Richard and Tony-O. Esposito stopped 39 of 41 shots and The King stopped 46 of 47. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 (edited) Mitchell is my favourite of the bunch, but he's also one of my favourite Canucks ever, loved his game here and in LA Maybe part of the last wave of old school, tough as nails defensive D alongside guys like Robyn Regehr and Douglas Murray Not a coincidence that LA won a cup with both Mitchell and Regehr in 13-14 The 2000's era to about the early to mid 2010's era still featured several big, tough D whose defense and physicality were their bread and butter That's coincidently what I consider to be the timeline for old school hockey's last gasp, game has changed Edited December 8, 2023 by Coconuts 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: As for another lesser known (at least for his work as a player) #8, Jim Nill was a pretty substantial part of the 1982 run to the final and scored the double overtime game winner in game 1 of the semifinal against Chicago. Against Tony Esposito. The game was actually an incredible duel between King Richard and Tony-O. Esposito stopped 39 of 41 shots and The King stopped 46 of 47. I wanted to post a pic of him, or even a video, but my google-fu not good, can't seem to find anything that isn't him slathered in other colours or with a Dallas backdrop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, Coconuts said: Mitchell is my favourite of the bunch, He's certainly got a lo-o-o-ong stick... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Just now, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: I wanted to post a pic of him, or even a video, but my google-fu not good, can't seem to find anything that isn't him slathered in other colours or with a Dallas backdrop. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted December 8, 2023 Author Share Posted December 8, 2023 Just now, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: He's certainly got a lo-o-o-ong stick... Never forgetti 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 Tomorrow's will probably be the last abundant one for me (maybe 10th too, we'll see), but then after that I'll probably cut back to one or two per day. Too bad I missed the first couple of days. There were a couple of gooders wearing those numbers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4petesake Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 17 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: He's certainly got a lo-o-o-ong stick... Willie in pre-game warmup trolling Mike Keenan after he suggested Willie was using an illegally long stick. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted December 8, 2023 Share Posted December 8, 2023 4 minutes ago, 4petesake said: Willie in pre-game warmup trolling Mike Keenan after he suggested Willie was using an illegally long stick. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysACanuckFan Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 On the 7th day of Canuckmas the Canucklore gave to me... And on the 8th day of Canuckmas the Canucklore gave to me.... Chris Tanev in bubble wrap 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 21 players that wore or is wearing #9 on this 9th day of Canuckmas: Ed Hatoum 1971 Dale Tallon 1972-1973 Don Lever 1974-1980 Ivan Boldirev 1980-1983 Tony Tanti 1983-1990 Andrew McBain 1990-1991 Ryan Walter 1992-1993 Russ Courtnall 1995-1997 Gary Leeman 1995 Brad May 1998-2000 Ľubomír Vaic 1998 Mike Stapleton 2001 Harold Druken 2002-2003 Mike Keane 2004 Taylor Pyatt 2007-2009 Cody Hodgson 2012 Zack Kassian 2012-2015 Brandon Prust 2016 Jack Skille 2017 Brendan Leipsic 2019 J.T. Miller 2020-2024 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 26 minutes ago, AlwaysACanuckFan said: I was thinking Tony Tanti but.... On the 9th day of Canuckmas the Canucklore gave to me... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 4 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said: 21 players that wore or is wearing #9 on this 9th day of Canuckmas: Ed Hatoum 1971 Dale Tallon 1972-1973 Don Lever 1974-1980 Ivan Boldirev 1980-1983 Tony Tanti 1983-1990 Andrew McBain 1990-1991 Ryan Walter 1992-1993 Russ Courtnall 1995-1997 Gary Leeman 1995 Brad May 1998-2000 Ľubomír Vaic 1998 Mike Stapleton 2001 Harold Druken 2002-2003 Mike Keane 2004 Taylor Pyatt 2007-2009 Cody Hodgson 2012 Zack Kassian 2012-2015 Brandon Prust 2016 Jack Skille 2017 Brendan Leipsic 2019 J.T. Miller 2020-2024 A pair of respectable Ring of Honour candidates wearing #9 in Don Lever and Tony Tanti. Don Lever was the captain before Kevin McCarthy I think and for years he held the Canucks ironman record before Trevor Linden broke it in the 90s. Tony Tanti was one of the more underappreciated scorers in league history and now after all of this time in Canucks history as well. Only something like 24 players in NHL history have had more than five 40-goal seasons. Tony had five 39+ goal seasons in a row. All of the seasons consecutively is even more rare of course and Tanti just needed one more goal twice for it to have been official. Years ago it never seemed like there would be a day where many or even most Canucks fans wouldn't know who Tony Tanti and Petri Skriko are but...such things come to pass. Andrew McBain was quite a good player. We got him late in his career but he had 77 points one year with the Jets. Gary Leeman we picked up as a late career lottery ticket of a reclamation project. Didn't do much in Vancouver but he was a 50 goal scorer with the Leafs. I already talked about Ivan Boldirev earlier in the thread. 800+ points, substantial contributor to the 1982 run...now the vast majority of Canucks fans probably have no idea who he is. Ryan Walter was a really good player with the Canadiens and the Capitals. Broke 80 points one year, over 600 in his career, over a thousand games. We had him in the "veteran leadership" denouement of his career. He was part of a really big trade for Doug Jarvis and Rod Langway...way back when. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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