Non-star players from your team history you miss the most

[pi314]

Max Talbot
Jordan Staal
Chris Kunitz
Pascal Dupuis
Patrick Hornqvist

Pre-concussion Matt Murray

 

[insomniaddict]

Antoine Roussel. That dude was such a workhorse and great at agitating the opponent's players. Truly the kinda player fans loved and other teams' fans hated.

 

[SenzZen]

Magnus Arvedson

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Proud to be the first one in the thread to mention Jon Klemm.

I'm not even going to check to see if that's true because deep down, I know it's true.

 

[Alexander the Gr8]

2018 playoffs Devante Smith Pelly. He was absolutely determined to go all the way.

 

[Puckstop40]

Matt Calvert

 

[rogking65]

peca

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Hornqvist and Cullen.

I never took them for granted, but you REALLY appreciate them once your team gets soft and stupid.

 

[BruinsFan37]

Shawn Thornton

 

[Cowumbus]

Tyler Wright
Anton Stralman
Manny Malhotra

 

[DitchMarner]

I really liked Nik Kulemin and Alexei Ponikarovsky. Enjoyed Dom Moore during his stint with Toronto as well.

 

[BurnabyJoe7]

Ethan Moreau and Jason Smith.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Loved me some Robyn Regehr and Micheal Ferland.

Like watching an angry bull skate.

 

[Tofveve]

Daymond Langkow was awesome.

I kinda wanted the Flyers to get Ty Domi, because he kinda reminds me of Langkow.

Wowowow

Daymond Langkow was on my list (as a Flames fan). Definitely a low-key but skilled tough player.

 

[Roof Daddy]

Janne Niinima because he’d do some really bizarre stuff (like odd times spinoramas) that looked hilarious but occasionally worked.


Also because he was a hardcore metal head who’d show up and support the local scene.

 

[Tofveve]

Edit

Carey Wilson

Daymond Langkow

 

[BagHead]

Antti Laaksonen. Anti Laxative really did make it so you didn't need to crap your pants watching an expansion team play defense.

Wes Walz. I loved watching Crazy Legs fly around the ice. He was far more fun as a player than as color-commentator whose one color is beige. I watched him score a goal by flying into the net with the puck in his breezers (hockey pants for the rest of you). You can't teach that skill.

Andrew Brunette. His drunk driving arrest was problematic a year or so ago, but he was a funny guy while with the Wild, and I loved watching him skate as slow as could be, yet control the puck in slow motion through defenders, and put up points regardless.
He scored a few extra points in my book when he played against the Wild for Colorado: he called out to Walz, who was skating toward the net in the Avs zone, "Walzy Walzy Walzy!" Walz dropped the puck for a drop-pass before a split second later remembering that Bruno wasn't on the Wild anymore. Funniest turnover I ever saw. Not even mad.

 

[Horvat1C]

Jannik Hansen

 

[Rants Mulliniks]

Sylvain Lefebvre.

HM to Yushkevich, Daniil Markov, Stumpy Thomas.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Ron Hainsey

was great for 2 years on the Leafs.

There are like 5 teams where Ron Hainsey is a good answer.

 

[DJN21]

Patrick kaleta. (ducks from fire....)

 

[Drake1588]

Great thread idea.

In the 80s, I really liked Mike McPhee for the Habs.

Starting In the late 90s, I was a big fan of Ulf Dahlen on the Caps. He was only with the team for a few years, but he was a cycling machine.

 

[ThePlanet]

The entire Scott Thornton-Mike Ricci-Niklas Sundstrom line.

 

[Altimus]

Volchenkov

 

[Castle8130]

Too many to count: nicklas Hjalmarsson, Dustin Byfuglien, bryan bickell….. man i didnt expect to cry today