Jeff Skinner: 1000 games 0 playoffs

[Team_Spirit]

The Sabres are giving away 10,000 beanies to celebrate this incredible achievement.

2nd worst streak is at 734 and retired.

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[Master P]

Thats actually impressive.

 

[MrazeksVengeance]

If Sabres make play-off the year after he leaves, than it’s some insane voodoo.

 

[NVious]

In honor of his accomplishment

 

[kevsh]

And there's zero chance he gets traded at the deadline as a rental to a playoff-bound team for at least 3 seasons ...

 

[JianYang]

This got me thinking. Who else has played 1,000 games with no playoffs?

Has it been done before?

 

[serp]

Ron Hansey played almost 1000 games ( 988 ) before playing his first playoff games and then in his first playoff run he won a Cup with the Pens. Pretty sure Olli Jokinen also played almost that much without playoffs. Jokinen only made the playoffs once in his career and it ended in just 6 games .

 

[Furio]

Poor bastard..

 

[StumpyTown]

Jay Bouwmeester hit 764 before his first playoff game.

 

[Mattilaus]

And there's zero chance he gets traded at the deadline as a rental to a playoff-bound team for at least 3 seasons ...

Even if someone would accept the dollars, he has a full NMC and only came to Buffalo because it is close to Toronto. He wouldn't allow a trade. He doesn't care about winning.

 

[serp]

Even if someone would accept the dollars, he has a full NMC and only came to Buffalo because it is close to Toronto. He wouldn't allow a trade. He doesn't care about winning.

Sabres should've been able to sign him to a better contract if he was only willing to play somewhere close to Toronto.

 

[chi777]

During the game last night, they put up a graphic that 4 of the top 5 actives players who has played the most games without making the players are all Sabres or former Sabres. The only player not tied to the Sabres is Brady Tkachuk.

 

[Mattilaus]

Sabres should've been able to sign him to a better contract if he was only willing to play somewhere close to Toronto.

I agree. You can ask our owner why he forced it when Botteril (our GM at the time) didn't want to sign him. This is part of the incompetence for the last 13 years we have been talking about.

 

[serp]

During the game last night, they put up a graphic that 4 of the top 5 actives players who has played the most games without making the players are all Sabres or former Sabres. The only player not tied to the Sabres is Brady Tkachuk.

Sabres really really need to make the playoffs soon. Everytime it looks like the franchise may finally be on the right track they fall apart the next season . The last couple of playoffs spots in the east this year are pretty pathetic and Sabres still aren't that close to this years playoff "race"

Every team in the "running" for the last two spots ( one is the third Metro division spot ) in the East is on some sort of losing streak right now. It's just pathetic.

 

[JoVel]

If Sabres make play-off the year after he leaves, than it’s some insane voodoo.

Sabres making the playoffs at all would be voodoo.

 

[Mickey Marner]

At least he's being paid handsomely to lose.

 

[Voight]

Ron Hansey played almost 1000 games ( 988 ) before playing his first playoff games and then in his first playoff run the won a Cup with the Pens. Pretty sure Olli Jokinen also played almost that much without playoffs. Jokinen only made the playoffs once in his career and it ended in just 6 games .

Jokinen also only played 14 playoff games in the Finnish professional league, and another 6 in the Finnish junior league.

Guy has played less than 30 playoff games total since minor hockey.

 

[ItWasJustified]

This got me thinking. Who else has played 1,000 games with no playoffs?

Has it been done before?

No. Jeff Skinner will be the first in NHL history and no other hockey league in the world plays or have ever played 82 regular season games.

 

[Terry Yake]

This got me thinking. Who else has played 1,000 games with no playoffs?

Has it been done before?

skinner's the only one

 

[CokenoPepsi]

I was like, no way the Hurricanes must have made it one year and he was just hurt or something....but nope.

Skinner always such an odd goal scorer never sure what you'll get.. one year he'll be on pace for 40 the next he'll get 18 in Carolina.

His first year in Buffalo he got 40, then the next two seasons he got 14 and 7 (in 59 and 53 games) so you think he's done...except the following three years he gets 35, 33 and looks like high 20s this year... What's up with that?

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Great achievement.

 

[AvroArrow]

Give this man a bronze stick

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Some hackers need to do a banner in Buffalo's arena.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

I was like, no way the Hurricanes must have made it one year and he was just hurt or something....but nope.

Skinner always such an odd goal scorer never sure what you'll get.. one year he'll be on pace for 40 the next he'll get 18 in Carolina.

His first year in Buffalo he got 40, then the next two seasons he got 14 and 7 (in 59 and 53 games) so you think he's done...except the following three years he gets 35, 33 and looks like high 20s this year... What's up with that?

In Carolina, all of his down years coincided with concussions, except for his last one, when Peters pretty much lost the team.

He's scored well in Buffalo outside of injuries and Ralph Krueger's reign.

Still, he averages 29.3 G / 82 games throughout his entire career even with those downs.

 

[HisIceness]

Had the Hurricanes not choked in game 82 his rookie year, Skinner would have at least 4 playoff games played as an 18 year old.