Forgotten Habs

[Schwang]

He was sill better than a 1st round pick. Remember Habs of that era could not pick worth a darn when it came to 1st rounders.

From 1984
Corson and Svoboda

1987
Andrew Cassels

Speaking of this year we drafted Cassels,LeClair,Desjardin, and Schneider and traded them all away for scraps and head cases.

1990
Turner Stevenson

1993
Saku Koivu was a great one.

Then all the way to 2000 for
Ron Hainsey and the wrong Hossa.

Now if we could repeat the earlier years 1st rounders like
1971 Guy Lafleur
1972 Steve Schutt
1973 Bob Gainey
We'd be golden

Cassels had a long nhl career. Hainsey is still playing. Corson and Svoboda are hardly bad picks. In fact, Corson was awesome and had a long career and i'd kill to get a player like him now. Svoboda won a cup with us. These are hardly bad picks.

Stevenson and Hossa I'll give you, but not the others.

 

[MJN79]

Jan Bulis, Chad Kilger, Bashkirov
Patrick Poulin, Miroslav Guren.

Looking at rosters from 99-2000, we had bad teams.

 

[HabsDood]

Well obviously, because no such player every played with the Habs...

Yeah Oleg..

 

[Gainesvillain]

Vladimir Malakhov


Marian Hossa's gloves.

 

[donghabs98]

Centennial season went down the drain when he got hurt. His line with the Kostitsyns was really solid.

The season basically ended their. I'll never forget that game for the injury and the ugly jerseys. Those barber shop ones are cursed.

 

[Alfie Turcotte]

Perry Turnbull
Normand Baron...

 

[Hackett]

Matthieu Descoteaux, he was a 19th overall pick by the oilers.

Those late '90's early '00's teams had some truly terrible lineups. Christian Laflamme, Patrick Traverse, Jim Campbell, Patrick Poulin, Craig Darby, Karl Dykhuis, Eric Landry, Juha Lind, Xavier Delisle, Andre Bashkirov, Johan Witehall, Darryl Shannon, Eric Bertrand, Enrico Ciccone, Matt Higgins, Francis Belanger, Jesse Belanger, Scott Lachance, Jim Cummins, Barry Richter, Miloslav Guren, Dave Morissette, Trent McCleary, Sylvain Blouin, Alain Nasreddine, Frederic Chabot, Shaun Van Allen, Reid Simpson, Olivier Michaud, Benoit Gratton, Stephane Fiset, Gordie Dwyer

Yeah, it was rough. Although, I thought lachance was at least serviceable, and although dykhuis had his ups and downs... overall, I thought he wasn't bad.

 

[MD thaivuN]

Tomas Vokoun

 

[Maliki2]

Over the years there have been many players who have suited up for the Habs, some memorable and others forgettable. What players do you always forget were once Habs?

Bryan Smolinski and Trevor Linden are two guys who I always seem to forget were once a Hab.

Will never forget Linden. My wife had a crush on him and I still have his jersey. We even went to Hard Rock cafe where the waitress told his the kind of drink he orders when he goes there! That was quite awhile ago!

 

[Maliki2]

Murray Baron, Dave Manson

 

[Maliki2]

Gonna add some more...

Andreas Dackell
Xavier Delisle (whom I met and got a picture with while skating with some of the players on the club!)

 

[Hackett]

Will never forget Linden. My wife had a crush on him and I still have his jersey. We even went to Hard Rock cafe where the waitress told his the kind of drink he orders when he goes there! That was quite awhile ago!

He never quite looked right outside of a canucks uniform. It was just a weird sight.

When he was healthy, I recall perhaps the biggest line that the habs have formed in the last 15 years. Zubrus-Linden-Stevenson.

 

[ThaDevilGirl]

Stéphane Fiset
Michael Leighton

 

[Lebowski]

Robert Lang.

 

[Rapala]

Ed Ronan

 

[Edgy]

Janne Niinima

 

[Lebowski]

Never forget.

 

[mrinsane]

Sergei Berezin, Pierre Dagenais, Andy Moog, Scott Thornton, Terry Ryan, Chris Higgins, Sheldon Souray, Jean-François Jomphe

 

[Edgy]

Stéphane Quintal

 

[Stive Morgan]

Petteri Nokelainen
Jeff Halpern

 

[Redux91]

Petteri Nokelainen
Jeff Halpern

lol totaly forgot petteri

houde had an orgasm any time he had the chance to pronounce that name

 

[Rapala]

Bobby Smith...
God I wish we had him now

 

[Edgy]

The Who (from 1998 onward):

Shaun Van Allen
Sergei Berezin
Arron Asham
Reid Simpson
Patrick Poulin
Sergei Berezin
Martin Rucinsky
Donald Audette
Sergei Zholtok
Jim Cummins
Juha Lind
Scott Lachance
Craig Darby
Randy McKay
Mariusz Czerkawski
Darren Langdon

 

[Rapala]

The Who (from 1998 onward):

Shaun Van Allen
Sergei Berezin
Arron Asham
Reid Simpson
Patrick Poulin
Sergei Berezin
Martin Rucinsky
Donald Audette
Sergei Zholtok
Jim Cummins
Juha Lind
Scott Lachance
Craig Darby
Randy McKay
Mariusz Czerkawski
Darren Langdon

LOL
What were we smokin'

 

[Habsfan18]

Bobby Smith...
God I wish we had him now

He was a Hab for 7 seasons.

Not exactly forgotten. But yes, early to mid 80's Bobby Smith would look pretty good on this roster right about now.