4petesake Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 hour ago, Kevin Biestra said: Three 70 point seasons in a row...76, 76 and 71. Then 41 points in an injury riddled 62 game season which is pretty respectable as well before being traded the next year when the entire old guard went in a housecleaning...Snepsts, Butcher, Skriko, Tanti, Pederson, etc. Yeah he was a 20 goal man after his injuries as opposed to a 40 goal man...the shoulder affected his shot more than his passing. And he was done by age 30...but the truth is most of the great Canucks pre-Linden and Ronning were essentially done by 30. Ververgaert, Sedlbauer, Tanti, Skriko, Smyl, Lanz, Rota, Blight, Lalonde, Tallon, Guevremont, Oddleifson, Kevin McCarthy, etc. Most were actually done by 30 and those that kept playing a little bit past like Smyl had lost their scoring and were there for leadership. Pederson doesn't stand out at all for a Canuck with his career ending at that age. You’re right about being done by 30. Tanti & Pederson went to Pittsburgh in the trade for McBain & Dan Quinn and both were finished in the NHL after the ‘92 season. For some reason I always thought of Pederson as having a shortened career but not Tanti, and yet they both played right around 700 games. Add that to the list of things I learned today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I nominate Philip Larsen who's career highlight with the Canucks was getting knocked out cold by Taylor Hall and then getting kicked in the head multiple times by his own teammates as they went to avenge the hit. This really should be one of those Canadian Heritage stamp moments. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophomore Jinx Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 14 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: He wasn't a world beater but he was pretty respectable for maybe 10th on the depth chart in 1982 and did play a few games on the run to the final...which is something only a very very small minority of Canucks can say they accomplished. 14 minutes ago, Kevin Biestra said: He wasn't a world beater but he was pretty respectable for maybe 10th on the depth chart in 1982 and did play a few games on the run to the final...which is something only a very very small minority of Canucks can say they accomplished. Yes, I remember that run, I had season tix in '82. He only got into 3 games, and had zeroes across the board, just like in the handful of games he played during the season. He had zero shot, couldn't pass. He was worse than Anders Eldebrink. Neil Belland was much better in the run, and that's not saying much haha. Anyway, you don't really want to debate Andy Schliebner, do you? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 (edited) How did we get to 5 pages without Zac Dalpe. This guy played on the Sedin line for a half a game once. I made a thread about it called 'Zac Dalpe. From the outhouse to the penthouse' Hey it still exists! https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/zac-dalpe-from-the-outhouse-to-the-penthouse.1579725/ Edited December 10, 2023 by Blue 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Long Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Hey wait a minute, does anyone actually remember Jim Benning as a player? 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 minute ago, Bob Long said: Hey wait a minute, does anyone actually remember Jim Benning as a player? Yup. He was not too bad. And didn’t die his hair! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophomore Jinx Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 1 minute ago, Bob Long said: Hey wait a minute, does anyone actually remember Jim Benning as a player? Yup. I remember being well aware of his stats from junior, and being stoked with this offensive D-Man coming over from the Laffs....and then his offense and everything else dried up with our squad haha...his 2nd year was good though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 Marc Bergavin. Does anyone remember that he existed in Canucks colors? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erkayloomeh Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 I'm going with Felix "road kil cat" Potvin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson JH Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 20 hours ago, Snoop Hogg said: Eric Weinrich Ok that’s interesting, I never seen that before. The closest tinted visor I’ve seen was on Alex Ovechkin in his early days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sativika Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 How's about Linden Vey. Shawn Mathius. Ronalds Kenins. I dunno. There seemed to be many a dud during the Willy Desjardins regime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson JH Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Lee Sweatt, Nic Dowd, Yannick Weber, Aaron Volpati, Adam Clendening, Marc-André Bergevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrJockitch Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 3 hours ago, GrammaInTheTub said: Blasphemy! Klatter was one of the Sedins first linemates to stick! And he was so random and boring. Tanner Pearson without the flair. Guess could have said King but they had a cool name for the line, well a kind of clever name anyway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 10, 2023 Author Share Posted December 10, 2023 2 hours ago, Sativika said: How's about Linden Vey. Shawn Mathius. Ronalds Kenins. I dunno. There seemed to be many a dud during the Willy Desjardins regime. I disagree on Matthias. He had some good stretches of hockey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Biestra Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 13 hours ago, Bob Long said: Hey wait a minute, does anyone actually remember Jim Benning as a player? Yeah he was actually pretty good. Scored 50 points from the blueline at least once and won the Canucks defenseman of the year award one season. We traded Rick Lanz for him I think...both had careers that were ending before age 30...as was usually the case with Canucks back then. He was part of the veteran group during Linden's rookie season and the 1989 series against Calgary. He wasn't really considered part of the leadership group given how the Canucks had an embarrassment of riches in that regard at the time - Snepsts, Smyl, Reinhart, Mel Bridgman, Tanti, Skriko, Pederson, etc. - but he was certainly a legit NHLer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantomex Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 10 hours ago, Blue said: I disagree on Matthias. He had some good stretches of hockey Didn't he have some concussion issues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCNeil Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 15 hours ago, Bob Long said: Hey wait a minute, does anyone actually remember Jim Benning as a player? I have his rookie card from 82. PSA 10. One of only 11 out there. Worth about $30 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJays Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 So many good options as we’ve had an endless supply of these guys. I nominate Hunter Shinkaruk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK-19 Posted December 10, 2023 Share Posted December 10, 2023 Markus Granlund fits this to a T. His selling point was that he could do everything (PK/PP/5on5) at every forward position (L/R/C) just none of it well. Kind of made him a perfect 13th forward. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 Mike Santorelli 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 I was going to add Alex Chasion but he was hated too much to be bleh. The hate for Chasion was a bit over the top imo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucker67 Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 (LD) Yann Sauve Only played 8 NHL (VAN) games though 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 7 hours ago, BlueJays said: So many good options as we’ve had an endless supply of these guys. I nominate Hunter Shinkaruk. Him and Sergei Shirokov are the same player in my mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Posted December 11, 2023 Author Share Posted December 11, 2023 3 minutes ago, Nucker67 said: (LD) Yann Sauve Only played 8 NHL (VAN) games though Its funny how we remember these names. It always feels like they played way more games than they did. Shinkeruk and Sherokov played around 7 or 8 games combined.. at least thats what is says on their DB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJays Posted December 11, 2023 Share Posted December 11, 2023 41 minutes ago, Blue said: Him and Sergei Shirokov are the same player in my mind my favourite number is 25 and typically seemed to be worn by only players that can be mentioned in this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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