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

[SugarSherm]

For this Ducks fan it’s Francois Beauchemin.

 

[GMR]

Darren McCarty.

 

[Carbooja]

 

[biturbo19]

Maxim Lapierre.

 

[Chainshot]

 

[Osakahaus]

A few islanders that I think we all can agree, we miss to some extent

Frans Nielsen
Mike Vukota
Vlad Malakhov

 

[VaporTrail]

Matt Barnaby and Patrick Kaleta

 

[Voight]

Dave Bolland & Kris Versteeg, Bollands heroics in the 2013 finals will never be forgotten nor will Versteegs short rapping career

 

[GeoRox89]

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.

Look at you stealing one of my answers and a Flames fan stealing my other one with Yelle

Just want to for a moment appreciate that the list of players with 2 Cup rings for the Avs is Sakic, Roy, Forsberg, Foote, Yelle and Klemm. 2 of my 3 all time favourite role players for the Avs (Cogs is the other with Laperriere a very close 4th)

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

David Backes

The only bad part about the 2019 cup was it came at his expense

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Look at you stealing one of my answers and a Flames fan stealing my other one with Yelle

Just want to for a moment appreciate that the list of players with 2 Cup rings for the Avs is Sakic, Roy, Forsberg, Foote, Yelle and Klemm. 2 of my 3 all time favourite role players for the Avs (Cogs is the other with Laperriere a very close 4th)

Can I throw in two-time Stanley Cup champion (and former Av and Flame) Chris "The Dinger" Dingman?

My all-time favorite official is Butch Mousseau (a sentiment shared by probably 75% of people who played or coached college or junior hockey, or played beer league, in Denver metro over a decade or so period). Anyhow, Butch passed away on the ice awhile back (story here):

Referee Butch Mousseau Passes Away After Head Injury

The officiating community suffered a huge loss Friday as referee Butch Mousseau passed away from a head injury suffered prior to a WCHA game last week.

scoutingtherefs.com

One of my favorite things Butch would do was that he trusted me enough to ask me if a puck had crossed the goal line or not - and I would tell him what I thought (even if I thought it was a goal).

Anyhow, at Chris Dingman's first Avalanche training camp, he was coming out for Scott Parker's job and at the Burgundy and White scrimmage, he and Parker went. At. It. Hard.

And Butchie was one of the poor souls who had to try and separate them eventually.

 

[WatchfulElm]

Steve Bégin
Lyle Odelein
Jaroslav Halak
Max Lapierre
Paul Byron
Cristobal Huet

 

[FrozenKing18]

I don’t know if he qualifies, but, Justin Williams. That’s a guy you want in your locker room to lead your team.

 

[Faceboner]

Jochen hecht

 

[Bizz]

Friesen

 

[TheUnusedCrayon]

All Canucks fans will have their engine guys. When you think of a Canuck to Canucks fans you think of guys that are all heart and compete every game. Guys like Hansen, Burrows, Motte, Garland, etc.

Our fan base consistently rewards these players and absolutely loathes those who don't play like them. It blows me away when GM's get rid of engine players. They should all be aiming for the bottom six to be littered with nothing but these players and if you can luck out and find skill with an engine then hold onto those players forever.

Absolutely blows me away that guys like Brandon Tanev, Gourde, etc. aren't higher commodity, despite being undersized. They add so much value in possession, bringing energy to the team, being leaders, etc. They may not be top points getters but they can also flip a game like the top stars can as well.

 

[Frankie Blueberries]

Tanev, Hamhuis, Mitchell, Malhotra

 

[Realgud]

Darren Helm
Tyler Bertuzzi
Tomas Holmstrom
Jonathan Bernier

 

[Antropovsky]

Gary Roberts.

 

[jetsforever]

Burmistrov

 

[Ol' Jase]

Igor Ulanov

 

[Bouboumaster]

Tomas Plekanec, Paul Byron, Jeff Petry

 

[majormajor]

Tyler Wright
Anton Stralman
Manny Malhotra

David Savard, Jan Hejda, Fedor Tyutin.

 

[JoVel]

Nate Thompson, Cédric Paquette, Braydon Coburn, Alex Killorn, Ryan Malone.

Tyler Johnson only had one year you could argue he was a star player so I'll add him too.

 

[hangman005]

Hmmmmmm aside from Smith, probably Bellmare, I liked when he played for us, I also liked how he didn't score against us everytime we meet while he played for us.