6of1_halfdozenofother Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: 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. I'm 4 for 6 - that's a passing grade, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Coconuts Posted December 9, 2023 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 9, 2023 1 hour 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 Mike Keane was a beauty, the impact he had for us with the Moose was huge, having him there was huge for players who went on to become Canucks 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-dlc- Posted December 9, 2023 Share Posted December 9, 2023 Just popping in to say JT'S the best #9 ever. I will fight you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted December 9, 2023 Author Share Posted December 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, -dlc- said: Just popping in to say JT'S the best #9 ever. I will fight you. He's been the engine up front this year, particularly of late, his line has been bringing it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kevin Biestra Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 19 hours ago, -dlc- said: Just popping in to say JT'S the best #9 ever. I will fight you. I think he will be if he gets 100 points this year. As of now I still give it to Tanti for his body of work. #9 is a jersey with a lot of good players attached to it in Vancouver though. Lever, Boldirev, Walter, Tallon, McBain, Leeman, Keane...all very good players. McBain and Leeman and Walter did their best work elsewhere but it's one of the numbers populated with the most high quality NHLers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kevin Biestra Posted December 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) #10s... Dennis Ververgaert is one of the forgotten Canucks legends. One of the first Canucks to score 70 points, was 4th for the Calder Trophy as a Canuck. His 37 goals one year was close to the Canuck record in the pre-Pavel Bure years. Maybe his biggest claim to fame was that he held some record at the NHL All Star Game (representing the Canucks). I forget what it was, but maybe the fastest hat trick or fastest two goals. Something like that. Hell of a player...I feel like a little more should be done to remember or honour him nowadays...same with guys like Lever, Oddleifson, Sedlbauer etc. but the 70s is the forgotten decade. Brent Peterson...solid defensive forward. Got Selke votes a few times. Maybe the most flattering thing I can say is that I sometimes confused him with Barry Pederson. Moe Lemay...had a nice 20 goal / 50 point season for us in the 80s. Bobby Schmautz... Terrific player. Needs no introduction as he was discussed earlier in the thread. Along with Peter McNab and Derek Sanderson, one of the great players of the 70s Bruins who also spent time with the Canucks. One of the first Canucks to ever get 70 points, also one of the first to score 30 goals. Rick Blight... Another very good player with a tragic story. From 1975 to 1978 he was the Canucks' top scorer over those three seasons combined. Another early Canucks legend whose name has slipped below the waves of the forgotten decade. Ron Stern... Tough as nails. Could have taken a run at the regular season penalty minutes record...twice with the Canucks had over 200 PIMs playing just half the season. The Canucks were such a tough team in the 80s and 90s that they had no problem trading Ron Stern AND Craig Coxe to their primary division rival Calgary. It didn't really matter...the Canucks always had Odjick, Snepsts, Tiger, Fraser, Delorme, Momesso, Hunter, Butcher etc. patrolling the ice and even though Coxe and Stern were top NHL enforcers there was just no room on the roster and they deserved a shot elsewhere. Esa Tikkanen... Along with Randy Gregg, one of the members of the Oilers dynasty that spent time as a Canuck. Geoff Courtnall was there for one of their Cups as well and, well, he who shall not be mentioned also. I think Blair MacDonald left the Oilers and joined the Canucks just before the dynasty started. Larry Melnyk was there for a couple Oilers Cups and I think Martin Gelinas was an Oilers rookie for the 1990 Cup. Tikkanen was there for all five Oilers championships I think. No wait, the last four Oilers cups and then the Rangers in 1994. Anyway, great player...could score and a perennial Selke candidate. He was a Selke finalist four times and was second in voting three times. If he had won those three instead of being runner up, he would probably have Guy Carbonneau's spot in the Hall of Fame. If somebody wasn't watching at the time they probably wouldn't know about his completely incoherent and indecipherable between periods interviews where nobody could make out what he was rambling through his accent, hence what he spoke was actually known in hockey circles as "Tikkanese." Bill Derlago...hell of a player but he did his best work elsewhere. The Canucks traded him and Rick Vaive very early in their careers for Tiger Williams. Derlago became a 40 goal scorer for the Leafs, Vaive a (three time) 50 goal scorer. The Leafs got regular season goals for most of the next decade but Tiger and the Canucks got the run to the Cup. Worked out pretty well for both teams. The Canucks really traded away / cut loose some great future parts in building up to 1982 and making that Cup run happen. Brent Ashton, Vaive, Derlago, all star goalie Murray Bannerman. Once the Canucks acquired King Richard (basically for free) to be their starter, they didn't even need Glen Hanlon anymore, let alone Murray Bannerman (who they ended up facing and beating in the 1982 semifinal to advance to play the Islanders). Ashton, Vaive and Derlago would have had the Canucks as maybe the deepest forward group in NHL history during the 80s. No hundred point players but an absolute army of 70 point players coming down the ice one after another... Smyl, Gradin, Rota, Ashton, Vaive, Derlago, Fraser, Tanti, Skriko, Sundstrom, Pederson. You have 70 point guys as 4th liners at that point. Oh well, it was worth it for 1982. Anyway here is some Tikkanese, 1994... Edited December 11, 2023 by Kevin Biestra 3 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coconuts Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 On the tenth day of Canuckmas, Canucks lore gave to me Ray Cullen 1971 Fred Speck 1972 Don Lever 1973 Dennis Ververgaert 1974-1979 Rick Blight 1979 Drew Callander 1979 Bill Derlago 1980 Bobby Schmautz 1981 Anders Eldebrink 1982-1983 Moe Lemay 1982-1983 Tony Currie 1983 Jere Gillis 1984-1985 Jean-Marc Lanthier 1984-1985 Dave Morrison 1985 Brent Peterson 1986-1987 Brian Bradley 1988-1991 Ronnie Stern 1988 Geoff Courtnall 1991 Pavel Bure 1992-1998 Esa Tikkanen 1996-1997 Trevor Letowski 2002-2003 Brad May 2004 Ryan Johnson 2009-2010 Jeff Tambellini 2011 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysACanuckFan Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 On the 10th day of Canuckmas the Canucklore gave to me... Pavel Bure's rookie card 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kevin Biestra Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 I guess a couple words on the TWO Canucks to ever wear #11, Wayne Maki and Chris Oddleifson... Oddleifson wore it briefly the way Geoff Courtnall wore #10 before switching to and becoming known forevermore as #14. Oddleifson is one of the solid but forgotten captains. Should get some more respect in that regard with Don Lever and Andre Boudrias, etc. Eight seasons as a Canuck. 51 points one year, 62 another. Part of the 1974-75 team that won the first ever division title (the only regular season one in the first 20 years of existence) and also the first ever playoff win. Wayne Maki... Only played two full seasons as a Canuck but scored over 20 goals in each of them. One of the original 1970-71 Canucks and had 63 points that year, just three behind Andre Boudrias for the team scoring title. He was a guy like Orland Kurtenbach who had never really been given a shot with real icetime in the NHL before the Canucks...then the moment they got a chance took their game and scoring to a level nobody had predicted. Had a hat trick in that first season in an 11-5 win over the California Golden Seals. I guess most people know the story but he was diagnosed with brain cancer early in his third season with the Canucks, never played again and died a little over a year later. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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kilgore Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 5 hours ago, Kevin Biestra said: I guess a couple words on the TWO Canucks to ever wear #11, Wayne Maki and Chris Oddleifson... Oddleifson wore it briefly the way Geoff Courtnall wore #10 before switching to and becoming known forevermore as #14. Oddleifson is one of the solid but forgotten captains. Should get some more respect in that regard with Don Lever and Andre Boudrias, etc. Eight seasons as a Canuck. 51 points one year, 62 another. Part of the 1974-75 team that won the first ever division title (the only regular season one in the first 20 years of existence) and also the first ever playoff win. Wayne Maki... Only played two full seasons as a Canuck but scored over 20 goals in each of them. One of the original 1970-71 Canucks and had 63 points that year, just three behind Andre Boudrias for the team scoring title. He was a guy like Orland Kurtenbach who had never really been given a shot with real icetime in the NHL before the Canucks...then the moment they got a chance took their game and scoring to a level nobody had predicted. Had a hat trick in that first season in an 11-5 win over the California Golden Seals. I guess most people know the story but he was diagnosed with brain cancer early in his third season with the Canucks, never played again and died a little over a year later. Well, You can't just have one! sorry, I'll see myself out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysACanuckFan Posted December 12, 2023 Share Posted December 12, 2023 10 hours ago, Coconuts said: Obligatory fuck Messier post Sorry the crapper is full 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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