Great players you watched that won't be remembered much as time wears on

[kingsholygrail]

Palffy retired due to a chronic shoulder injury.

Jason Allison is still finishing his shootout attempt.

 

[zaYG]

Shea Weber could be argued as the overall best defenseman over a period of about 5 years but in a few decades he probably will be mostly forgotten about.

 

[The Macho King]

Pavel Kubina was a very solid #1 Dman at his peak.

 

[AvroArrow]

Tomas Kaberle
Tomas Plekanec
Mike Richards
Milan Hejduk
Alex Tanguay
Tomas Holmstrom
Nathan Horton
Andrei Markov
Wade Redden
Milan Lucic

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

Marek Svatos scored 32 goals in 61 games (43 goal pace) as a rookie for the Avs while playing under 14 minutes a game to tie Joe Sakic for the team lead in goals (and Joe played 82 games).

Then he fractured his right shoulder in a game against Dallas in March. The next year it was groin issues. The next year, he was leading the team in goals again, only to tear his ACL. The next year it was a broken hand. Then more groin and shoulder issues the next year, and his career was essentially over. And, after he unfortunately died of a drug overdose in 2016, it was also confirmed that he was suffering from CTE as well.

 

[Zbynek]

So many underrated Czech and Slovakian players from the mid 2000's.

Miroslav Satan
Michal Handzus
Bobby Holik
Vaclav Prospal
Milan Hejduk
Pavol Demitra (RIP)
Lubomir Visnovsky
Tomas Kaberle

Even Gaborik is kinda underrated despite going #3 overall

 

[RefalancheStillLose]

Lehtinen and Zubov

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Dany Heatley

50 in 07 baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JediOrderPizza]

So many underrated Czech and Slovakian players from the mid 2000's.

Miroslav Satan
Michal Handzus
Bobby Holik
Vaclav Prospal
Milan Hejduk
Pavol Demitra (RIP)
Lubomir Visnovsky
Tomas Kaberle

Even Gaborik is kinda underrated despite going #3 overall

Good ones.

 

[ValeriKamensky]

Ryan McDonaugh
One of the best two-way D I’ve ever seen, but never got a lot of credit

 

[These Are The Days]

I feel like Daniel Alfredsson has already been forgotten and it's a damn shame to think in 10 years no one outside Ottawa will think of him. Absolute Hoss who doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Prime Ryan Malone was a solid power forward. He could hit, PK, fight a bit, score 25-25.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

I remember seeing Bertuzzi with the puck, one hand on the stick, push an opposing player with his other hand. The opposing player fell into another player and they both fell over while Bert skated away with the puck. Was one of the most incredible plays I’ve seen

 

[Osakahaus]

Lots of guys from the Hawks core were very good to great but don’t have much formal recognition or individual hardware. Patrick Sharp, Niklas Hjlamarsson, and Corey Crawford in particular.

Sharp honestly is the biggest "wait he was good for HOW LONG?" kind of player

its absurd how good he was even after leaving the Hawks for the Stars.

 

[Elvs]

So, so many.

But a couple of favourites would be Andy McDonald and Lubomir Visnovsky.

As for non Ducks players I wanna mention Martin Erat also, especially as his career has been reduced to "bad player who was traded for Filip Forsberg" by newer fans, when Erat actually was a good and underrated player for a long time in the league.

 

[JaegerDice]

Lots of guys from the Hawks core were very good to great but don’t have much formal recognition or individual hardware. Patrick Sharp, Niklas Hjlamarsson, and Corey Crawford in particular.

Brian Campbell was so good and so important for the ascension of the Blackhawks.

So many dmen got rich playing next to him, and despite always having great underlying stats, he got stuck with the BS eye-test evaluation that he was 'all offense' and 'bad defensively'.

Probably the most underrated dman of his generation.

 

[These Are The Days]

I forgot Hjarlmarsson. What a stud

 

[BB79]

Claude Lemieux

Yeah, we'll never forget that dirtbag.

 

[Chainshot]

Derek Roy had an 80 point season and then just faded away. Samsonov was very good also. I dont think he'll be forgotten as much but he did win a calder.

He got hurt falling into the boards due to a collision caused by Kulikov during Kulikov’s first stay in Florida. The injury took away much of Roy’s explosiveness and he was never able to get back to the pre injury production.

 

[Jeremy Hronek]

Bobby Ryan. He had a short prime, but he was a really exciting player alongside Perry and Getzlaf.

 

[Chainshot]

Sami Pahlson as a defensive forward.

 

[Shanahanigans]

Ales Hemsky was one of the most talented forwards I've ever seen play...unfortunately he was stuck on the decade of darkness Oilers, and injuries caught up to him in his 30s. He'll be an Oilers fan favourite for a long time.

 

[BB79]

Geoff Sanderson. 700 points, 355 goals, 1,100 games in a career spanning from 1990-2008, and he put up numbers playing on some truly awful teams.

Good faceoff guy and fast skater too. His stick looked like a kid's toy. Most successful NHL player from NW territories. I watched him a lot as a Whaler, he was my favorite

 

[Mike C]

Brian Propp
Steve Larmer
Valeri Kamensky
Slava Kozlov
Arturs Irbe
Brian Rolston
Saku Koivu
Steve Thomas
Pat Verbeek
Ziggy Palffy
Pavol Demitra
Mike Peca
John Madden
Tony Amonte

All guys that were terrific players at one time or another. They were instrumental to their teams' successes in their era.

I'm gonna kick my hat in for Dave Langevin to add. Great at what he did. Underappreciated as time as gone by. Stay at home defenseman supreme, shot blocker extraordinaire

 

[WreckedUm]

Iggy appeared on a local news station and no one recognized him even after leaving the organization a few years prior.

Sweeny was a pretty solid D pairing with Bourque since assuming the GM position.

The Russian 5 was fun to watch, Fedorov is easily memorable but the cast around him was great too.