Dude! What are you doing in that uniform? Part II

[BackBringCam]

Hull Flames

 

[knuck]

Koivu as a duck

 

[tade]

I literally forgot that Alfredsson ever played for Detroit, damn.

 

[Engebretson]

Modano on the Red Wings was the strangest to me.

Also, Owen Nolan on the Wild...

 

[Lunatik]

Ryan Smyth anywhere but Edmonton.

Let's be fair here, Smyth was a great player but one ugly dude. He didn't look right anywhere in his life

 

[SealsFan]

This is essentially a duplicate of the "Dude, What Are You Doing in That Uniform?" thread...

 

[iamjs]

This is essentially a duplicate of the "Dude, What Are You Doing in That Uniform?" thread...

there was another thread like this that surfaced on the main board too.

 

[Killion]

^^^ Exactly.... merged.

 

[iamjs]

Theoren Fleury, Chicago Blackhawks

(2002-03, 54 GP, 12 G, 21 A, 33 PTS, 77 PIM, -7)

 

[Martin Riggs]

Fleury on the Hawks can also be called "Dude, what are you doing wearing that helmet?"

 

[JackFr]

Old Rangers Free Agent 1990s All-Star Team

Lindros with the Rangers

Bure with the Rangers

Fleury with the Rangers

Ozolinsh with the Rangers

Shanahan with the Rangers

 

[SealsFan]

Now that this has been merged with another thread, just wanted to repost a few reminders...

- please identify the player. Don't assume everyone will know who it is by sight.

- Just my opinion, but the spirit of the thread should be that a player should look out of place in some other NHL (or in some cases WHA or minor league) uniform after he has already established an identity with one or two teams. Usually it's a player winding down his career and he gets traded where he plays out the string for a season or two. A picture of a player as a 17-year-old in his Juniors uniform or wearing the uniform of his home country in some international competition series are not good examples.

It should work as a "word association" thing. Example: I say Serge Savard and you think "Montreal Canadiens" where he spent 14 seasons. Then you find out he spent his last two years with the Winnipeg Jets and you can't picture that. Good example.

 

[Shrimper]

 

[SealsFan]

I was a fan of Glen Sather during his playing days and remembered him having one-year stints with St.Louis, Montreal and the WHA Oilers at the end of his career, but not his 71-game season with Minnesota!
The only action pic I could find online...

 

[pabst blue ribbon]

Paul Kariya in a Preds jersey

 

[Thehair17]

Paul Kariya in a Preds jersey

Martin Gelinas

Josef Vasicek

Brendan Witt

Marek Svatos
Nashville always seems to have 1 or 2 of these guys running around at any given time.

 

[Sanf]

Mike Palmateer Oilers 1985. Only pre-season.

http://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/mike-palmateer-of-the-edmonton-oilers-takes-warmup-prior-to-news-photo/464496108

 

[iamjs]

What's weird is that I can go on ebay and find a Luc Penguins' jersey all the time, but I think he may have been in Pittsburgh for 55 games and a movie.

 

[Sureshot]

I know it's only been one game but... so weird.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

What's weird is that I can go on ebay and find a Luc Penguins' jersey all the time, but I think he may have been in Pittsburgh for 55 games and a movie.

A shame we never got to see what type of numbers Luc Robitaille would have registered playing alongside Mario Lemieux.

 

[Ceremony]

The pinnacle of odd Nashville appearances has to be this abomination, surely:

 

[Sanf]

May not entirely fit to thread, but its quite odd and cool to see Jorma Valtonen with Maple Leafs even if it is only a practice jersey.

http://www.gettyimages.fi/detail/news-photo/finnish-goaltender-jorma-valtonen-watches-from-seats-at-news-photo/502544933

 

[Killion]

^^^ wow. quite the mask. prop buyers for the original Silence of the Lambs mustve spotted that at an auction huh? sure does look identical to the one they strapped onto Hannibal Lecter as a safety precaution when he was being shipped around... straight-jacketed & strapped to a 2 wheel dolly....

 

[The Panther]

A shame we never got to see what type of numbers Luc Robitaille would have registered playing alongside Mario Lemieux.

That's true, although I'm not sure Robitaille was a player who needed a Gretzky or Lemieux on his line. Some of his biggest seasons were 1988 (pre-Gretzky, post-Dionne), 1993 (Gretzky injured), and the late 90s (Dead-puck era). He just seemed to create his own offense somehow. Actually, he did really well in Pittsburgh, in that work-stoppage season when everyone's numbers were way down. Counting playoffs, he scored 30 goals in 58 games, second only to Jagr on that pretty good team. (The Devils kind of shut him down in round two, though.) In retrospect, the Pens probably should have kept him, but for his legacy I'm glad he went back to L.A (twice).

Now, here are some players who don't like right in Kings' uniforms:

Bob Carpenter (Kings 1986 -- 1989)

Ron Duguay (Kings 1988-89)



That Mike Palmateer one kind of threw me... I'd never heard that he'd gone to the Oilers' training camp in 1985. He was already a year retired then, too.

 

[Yurog]