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Dale Hawerchuck, stuck in the shadow of  Mario and Wayne

 

6 X 100 point player, peaking at 130, with another at 121

4 additional 90+ point seasons

3 more seasons at 80+ points

first 13 seasons were a point a game or better.!

last 4 partial years due to injury 111 points in 156 games.

99 points in 97 play off games

 
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3 hours ago, gurn said:

your spelling is ok, but your Capitalization, and punctuation, might need work.

Irregardless :bigblush: I stand corrected!! 
 

this isn’t a GrAmMeR test!   Whooooo!!!! Let’s gooooo.   
 

Sorry I’ve been cooped up in my house for almost 3 weeks.  I’m going freakin nuts!!

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6 hours ago, skolozsy2 said:

John Leclair.....over 400 goals, over 400 assists, and a career +204.  The guy got it done at both ends of the ice, and that "Legion of Doom" line was absolutely menacing. 

Who was the third player on that line?  Lindros, Leclair, and was it renberg?

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On 3/24/2020 at 12:56 PM, Tre Mac said:

Some are one hit wonders: Ziggy Palffy, Jim Carey, Joe Juneau, and Petr Bondra, 

Not sure how you figure Bondra could be considered a one hit wonder.... From 93-94 to 03-04, the only player that scored more goals than him was some guy named Jagr. Pretty impressive 11 year span if you ask me.

 

As for other guys that don't really get much recognition for what they could do would be Satan, Geoff Sanderson, Bobby Holik.

 

I think the most frustrating "star" player of all time would have to be Alexei Kovalev. He was arguably the most "talented" player in the league but at the same time was easily the laziest guy to ever play at the NHL level.

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27 minutes ago, zduck14 said:

Not sure how you figure Bondra could be considered a one hit wonder.... From 93-94 to 03-04, the only player that scored more goals than him was some guy named Jagr. Pretty impressive 11 year span if you ask me.

 

As for other guys that don't really get much recognition for what they could do would be Satan, Geoff Sanderson, Bobby Holik.

 

I think the most frustrating "star" player of all time would have to be Alexei Kovalev. He was arguably the most "talented" player in the league but at the same time was easily the laziest guy to ever play at the NHL level.

i was told by an ex nhler that you know, that lindros was the laziest nhl player. 

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On 3/27/2020 at 8:49 AM, smithers joe said:

i was told by an ex nhler that you know, that lindros was the laziest nhl player. 

You're right. He's told me the same before actually. 

 

Kovalev was still the most frustrating to watch simply because he could've been a top 3 or 4 player in the league at the time based on talent alone but he would coast around more than anyone I've ever seen.

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Yashin 

Bondra and Zubov have been covered

Nichols 

Roenick

Nabokov

Irbe (the sharks Broduer)

Damphosse

Ryan Smith

Doug Weight

Kevin Stevens

Tim Kerr (HHOF for sure career cut short)

Doug Wilson

Reggie Leach

Rick McLeash

Federko

Rod Gilbert

Bob Bourne

John Tonneli

Gaborik

 

too many too list

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On 3/24/2020 at 9:01 PM, Specz said:

Tommy Salo. Poor guy was a legend before that fateful day...

Anyone remember Vesa Toskala?  The man who let in the 200-ft goal... and he was the Leafs' starter for awhile (somewhere Dan Cloutier must've been laughing)
 

 

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On 3/25/2020 at 10:20 AM, Chickenspear said:

John Vanbiesbrouck

Andy Moog

Adam Foote

Milan Hejduk

Peter Bondra

Sergei Gonchar

The 'Boulin Wall

Wendel Clark

Damn, there's a lot of these...

You bet.  Clark was one of my favourite players that didnt play on the Canucks - but I will see you that and say Vaive...  right now we are also voting in the top 50 Canucks all-time.. THN has Clark at 40...Sittler at 11...there is a whole lot of guys long forgotten both in the HHOF and pretty close but not quite good enough.  

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56 minutes ago, IBatch said:

Yashin 

Bondra and Zubov have been covered

Nichols 

Roenick

Nabokov

Irbe (the sharks Broduer)

Damphosse

Ryan Smith

Doug Weight

Kevin Stevens

Tim Kerr (HHOF for sure career cut short)

Doug Wilson

Reggie Leach

Rick McLeash

Federko

Rod Gilbert

Bob Bourne

John Tonneli

Gaborik

 

too many too list

Super duper "upvote" for Tim Kerr! 

 

 

Like you said, career cut short....one of the most injury plagued careers from season to season that I can truly recall. It seemed like every year he spent time on the shelf.  And the guy still somehow put up four straight 50 goal seasons. Mighty impressive for a player who went undrafted!

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