Eric Desjardins

[vadim sharifijanov]

Niinima, Dykhius and Delmore were long gone by 2004.

Desjardins didn't play any playoff games in 2004. Desjardins was injured in January and only played 3 more games the rest of the year. The defensemen for the Flyers in the playoffs were Joni Pitkanen, Kim Johnsson, Danny Markov, Vladimir Malakhov, Marcus Ragnarsson and Mattias Timander. Dennis Seidenberg also appeared in 3 playoff games. The best defensemen in those playoffs was Markov and Johnsson, but Desjardins presence was sorely missed.

i made a thread about that all-european d group once upon a time -- NHL teams with only European defensemen

sami kapanen played d too

 

[FerrisRox]

yes desjardins and leetch are only a year apart, and yes desjardins technically played 30-odd games in 1989. but you gotta draw a line somewhere.

You seem to be trying to pretend that Desjardins career was barely played in the 80's.

He didn't play "thirty odd games in '89." His career started in the 1988-89 season where he played 50 games in the regular season and playoffs. The following year, 1989-90, he added 61 more games. To say he's not in the same "generation" as Scott Stevens because Stevens started in the 80's only makes sense if Desjardins didn't start in the 80s but he clearly did.