Honour Over Glory
Fire Sully
- Jan 30, 2012
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His chin never cleared customs from Sweden to Anaheim.Shame that wanker can't take it on the chin, right?
His chin never cleared customs from Sweden to Anaheim.Shame that wanker can't take it on the chin, right?
He was rated fairly well in EA NHL games so I'd always sign him and he'd end up being my 2nd liner. Back when we had shit prospects.
Which isn't much different now.
IIRC the Penguins actually had a pretty rippin prospect pool after the 04 draft... it was that they had nothing on the actual NHL roster aside from Orpik and Malone, essentially.
Of course OF that prospect pool... most didn't pan out. But at the time...
I was convinced Daniel Fernholm was going to be the new Lidstrom.
@SomeDude isn’t Keven Veilleux (the weird Lemieux doppelgänger) a bloke that was booted for being racist?
We can definitely forget that asshole. 6’5” of uselessness.
IIRC the Penguins actually had a pretty rippin prospect pool after the 04 draft... it was that they had nothing on the actual NHL roster aside from Orpik and Malone, essentially.
Of course OF that prospect pool... most didn't pan out. But at the time...
I was convinced Daniel Fernholm was going to be the new Lidstrom.
@SomeDude isn’t Keven Veilleux (the weird Lemieux doppelgänger) a bloke that was booted for being racist?
We can definitely forget that asshole. 6’5” of uselessness.
A lot of them were used in trades to get us other guys. Most of which didn't pan out. That said, I can't really think of anyone we've traded away that's gone on to do big things. Only 2 or 3 of the picks we've traded away have been big time impacts (Barzel being the best of the bunch).
I remember Morrow for Morrow being a tough pill to swallow and I still lament over it but we did get Guentzel out of that so...
A victim of the incredible run of terrible 2nd round picks by this organization from 1996 - 2011. It looks like Teddy may have broken the curse if things keep looking up for him. Take a look at this murderers' row:
Pavel Skrbek
Brian Gaffaney
Alexander Zevakhin
Matt Murley
Jeremy Van Hoof (allegedly an actual real person and not a Craig Patrick fever dream hallucination)
Shane Endicott
Noah Welch
Ondrec Nemec
Ryan Stone
Johannes Salmonsson
Michael Gergen
Carl Sneep
Keven Vellieux
Philip Samuelson
Scott Harrington....the most successful of the bunch, has held the 7th D spot in Columbus for a bit.
I don't even know if you could make that many misses if you were actively trying. It's impressive.
Concussions didn't help. He was used in the deal to get Gary "Too Much Man" Roberts if I remember correctly. But he was a big bloke, 6'4" , that could skate and was solid in his own end and had the hybrid PMD ability, I think he had like 5 or 4pts in his first stint with the team in around 5 or 6 games? A very solid prospect with potential, but he suffered a concussion with the Panthers and never really got a chance to do much in Florida.Wasn't Noah Welch supposed to be a cornerstone on D for the future?
Wasn't Noah Welch supposed to be a cornerstone on D for the future?
Yeah he had a high potential rating so by year two, he was basically a top 4 and let you move bigger salaries.Was always great in my NHL video game seasons lol
Didn’t Messier give Skrbek the Kessel Special?
Morrow probably pisses me off the most, because he just figured he didn't need to work on his game, but he had the talent to be a Letang type of player with his mean streak. Even after he was traded, he still couldn't get over himself but now he didn't even believe in himself anymore.Since we are talking about Despres, all of the bluechip defensemen that Shero accumulated.
Despres, Dumoulin, Harrington, Maatta, Morrow, Pouliot...
Plus, the NHL roster featured Letang, and Martin, Niskanen. After numerous HF articles (when they still published them) and countless roster threads, Letang and Dumo are the only ones left.
Oh man Rob Klinkhammer. What a name for a terrible player.
Morrow probably pisses me off the most, because he just figured he didn't need to work on his game, but he had the talent to be a Letang type of player with his mean streak. Even after he was traded, he still couldn't get over himself but now he didn't even believe in himself anymore.
What a waste.
J Bombulie (WBS writer) and myself at the time agreed he was having one of the best rookie AHL seasons from a power forward ever. I remember he missed his only NHL call-up chance when Pens were ridiculously depleted playing in Chicago. They took Tim Wallace up for the 3rd time that month.The racism was a cherry on top after it was already clear he was a bust, but yeah, some blew up in more spectacular fashions than others.
I liked Miro...