OT: Let's Remember Some Guys

[Machinehead]

Kaapo Kakko

 

[Boris Zubov]

Kaapo Kakko

The only memorable thing he's done in 5 years is miss a wide open net to tie Game 2 in Carolina.

 

[Machinehead]

The only memorable thing he's done in 5 years is miss a wide open net to tie Game 2 in Carolina.

To be fair, he also missed a wide open net to win Game 1. That was memorable.

 

[JCProdigy]

I randomly remembered Evgeny Grachev the other day

There's a cream available for that.

 

[RangersFan1994]

PJ Stock lol i liked him when he was on the Rangers. Entertaining

 

[RangersFan1994]

Langdon was great

 

[klingsor]

How many threads do we need to dump on Kakko?

 

[cwede]

I randomly remembered Evgeny Grachev the other day

I get that
Sometimes i get Joe Balej
or Daniel Goneau

 

[JCProdigy]

How many threads do we need to dump on Kakko?

 

[SingnBluesOnBroadway]

How many threads do we need to dump on Kakko?

Wanna talk Sean Avery?

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

theres currently a main board thread on Aaron Voros, a guy we relied on for scoring in those awful post-Jagr days when we were lucky to have anyone score 20 goals or 50 points

 

[Roo Returns]

Wanna talk Sean Avery?

I still never got the hype with him. It was a joke comparing him to Tikannen. 1997 or 1998 regular season coasting Tikannen was as effective as full force Avery.

He was a jolt for one playoff run and spent the remainder of his time in the league going offsides 7 times a game and networking.

He became effective again for a minute in fall 2011 but then Torts looked for the first thing to het him out of town.

He even wrote an article for The Players Tribune I believe after his career of how difficult it was to enjoy playing hockey and get hyped on a nightly basis.

 

[markymarc1215]

I nominate the entire 2003-2004 New York Rangers post-purge for this thread.

 

[RangersFan1994]

 

[eco's bones]

Gene Carr apparently has passed. This was a kid that Bill Chadwick the Rangers color man in the 70's use to torment for no good reason. I wasn't a fan of Chadwick.....a bully and a blowhard IMO.

I think it was in his second year that the Rangers were in Boston and he and Mike Murphy another Rangers forward hung out with Bruins forward Derek Sanderson at Sanderson's bar that day. When Murphy and Carr left they took a cab and in a cross street the cab was hit by a police car chasing another car. Some minutes later Sanderson having also left the bar found the two of them staggering around in the street and took them to the hospital. Murphy was concussed and this was where Carr's back issues started which would plagued him through the rest of his career and into retirement and eventually put him in a wheelchair.

 

[Mandar]

Gene Carr apparently has passed. This was a kid that Bill Chadwick the Rangers color man in the 70's use to torment for no good reason. I wasn't a fan of Chadwick.....a bully and a blowhard IMO.

I think it was in his second year that the Rangers were in Boston and he and Mike Murphy another Rangers forward hung out with Bruins forward Derek Sanderson at Sanderson's bar that day. When Murphy and Carr left they took a cab and in a cross street the cab was hit by a police car chasing another car. Some minutes later Sanderson having also left the bar found the two of them staggering around in the street and took them to the hospital. Murphy was concussed and this was where Carr's back issues started which would plagued him through the rest of his career and into retirement and eventually put him in a wheelchair.

Tremendous speed, but had more problems than Kakko trying to finish.

Will always remember him flying down the ice with the blonde hair flowing. R.I.P. #20

 

[alkurtz]

I don't think that anyone who was there the night he made his Ranger debut will forget it: he had two goals and two assists. It seemed, for a brief few games, that we had stolen something special in a trade with the Blues. But, aside from blazing speed and, at the time really unusual, long hair, there was not much else to his game. But, in the playoffs in 1972, against the Blackhawks, his job was to shadow Bobby Hull, and he did a great job, helping propel us into the finals against the Bruins. He did have one 17 goal, 54 point season with the Penguins. But that debut....unforgettable.

 

[0ldTimeHockey]

What about Martin Rucinsky? I seem to remember him scoring an OT goal against St. Louis I think where he missed the net and it hit off the boards and in or something.

I remember this vividly... Shot was way high and bounced straight back off the glass and went in off the goalie's back. It was extra odd because we never get that kind of luck.

Another one that comes to mind is Sean Avery against the Thrashers in the playoffs. Dumped the puck out of the zone, took a weird bounce off the stantion in the glass, and went in toward the vacant net.

 

[nyr2k2]

I remember this vividly... Shot was way high and bounced straight back off the glass and went in off the goalie's back. It was extra odd because we never get that kind of luck.

Another one that comes to mind is Sean Avery against the Thrashers in the playoffs. Dumped the puck out of the zone, took a weird bounce off the stantion in the glass, and went in toward the vacant net.

I didn't see that because I think it was before online streaming and I was already relocated to MD, but I remember listening to the radio (they did stream the radio broadcasts) and couldn't believe that really happened.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

I remember this vividly... Shot was way high and bounced straight back off the glass and went in off the goalie's back. It was extra odd because we never get that kind of luck.

Another one that comes to mind is Sean Avery against the Thrashers in the playoffs. Dumped the puck out of the zone, took a weird bounce off the stantion in the glass, and went in toward the vacant net.

When you said we don't get that kind of luck that's the goal I think of.

Another lucky goal was a playoff clinching goal by Cally in a game against the Canes I believe. I think it went in like the Rucinsky goal when we were down 3-2 in the third and that goal tied it. Then they won in OT to clinching a playoff spot.

 

[0ldTimeHockey]

As far as random players go... how about Patrick Rissmiller and Maxim Kondratiev

 

[Whoot Whoot]

Peter Prucha, the enigma

 

[Ratelleitlikeitis]

Jack Egers, Ab Demarco Jr., Gilles Villemure (who as our backup to Eddie G. went 95-48-19 over five seasons starting in 1970.)

 

[HFBS]

Gene Carr apparently has passed. This was a kid that Bill Chadwick the Rangers color man in the 70's use to torment for no good reason. I wasn't a fan of Chadwick.....a bully and a blowhard IMO.

I think it was in his second year that the Rangers were in Boston and he and Mike Murphy another Rangers forward hung out with Bruins forward Derek Sanderson at Sanderson's bar that day. When Murphy and Carr left they took a cab and in a cross street the cab was hit by a police car chasing another car. Some minutes later Sanderson having also left the bar found the two of them staggering around in the street and took them to the hospital. Murphy was concussed and this was where Carr's back issues started which would plagued him through the rest of his career and into retirement and eventually put him in a wheelchair.

Gene Carr. My most hated Ranger ever.

Chadwick was 100% correct about him.

"Gene Carr couldn't put the puck in the ocean if he was standing at the end of the pier."

I hope they dig an extra large grave because no doubt he'll miss it wide.

 

[Lindberg Cheese]

# 1 C Carey Wilson