Lets Remember Some Guys

[HandshakeLine]

Robert Dome - late 90s first round pick (reach) that played maybe a dozen nhl games. Pens scouts really outsmarted themselves with that pick.

Rod Buskas - manly name, manly mustache

I, sadly, have seen Robert Dome play many a time for HC Slovan Bratislava in his two year stint there.

He was actually quite good! (I say sadly because I am no fan of Slovan Bratislava, or Bratislava the city.)

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Billy Tibbets

Run kids

 

[Night Shift]

Nedved was his own worst enemy. That bloke was never lacking in his giant ego. It's a shame because he finally hit his potential here and then burned bridges and f***ed off to obscurity and hasbeen status.

Other one I was going to go with was Wregget..always my favorite goalie mask

 

[HandshakeLine]

Wendell Young remains my most disliked Penguins goalie, for reasons that are growing cloudy with age.

 

[BHD]

Wasn't Mike Condon a Penguin for, like, an hour?

Anyways, I'm sure there's some guy worth mentioning from the latter years of Shero/first year of Rutherford. Most of them were plugs, but some of them were serviceable players. I’m thinking of guys like Comrie and Comeau.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Other one I was going to go with was Wregget..always my favorite goalie mask

Kenny Wregget is good people.

 

[ziggyjoe212]

Maxim Galanov. Played here during hte 1998-99 season. I remember him because he scored the OT goal at the first NHL game I ever went to. I'll never forget that moment.

Other than that he's done nothing of note.

 

[SEALBound]

I have an affinity for a lot of the random bottom-pair quality Dmen who got playing time due to in injuries in the first few Bylsma seasons. Martin Skoula, Alexandre Picard, etc. Were they good? No, but I remember 'em!

I remember listening to 05-06 Pens games in my dorm room and then watching them in 06-07 in my apartment. Some of the obscure names that rotated through those first couple seasons are fun to think about.

 

[Solution]

CPZ (even though he technically never played for the Penguins).

 

[Ugene Magic]

Jim Rutherford.

I'll see myself out...

 

[HandshakeLine]

CPZ (even though he technically never played for the Penguins).

One of the first internet casualties.

 

[Allie Kitsune]

CPZ (even though he technically never played for the Penguins).

Him, Keven Veilleux, and Luca Caputi all just sort of take up the same amorphous blob-space in my head now.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Ty Conklin was pretty good for a stretch when Fleury went down

 

[Big McLargehuge]

The first game I ever went to was utterly dominated by the Penguins' future Hall-of-Famers of the mid-90s, even the guy we dealt for one of the worst players in team history...Naslund hat trick, Jagr 2+1, Lemieux 3A, Francis 2A. Naturally the goal I remember most clearly was scored by none other than François Leroux. In the third game I ever went to Leroux picked up 22 PIMs and beat the ever-loving shit out of Tony Twist.

I mean...Mario Lemieux also scored 15 points in those 3 games...but that was almost expected. I probably saw the peaks of Leroux's career out of sheer good timing


The Penguins scored 7, 9, and 8 goals in the first 3 games I went to...no wonder the Penguins are the one part of Pittsburgh that I'll never let go of.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

The first game I ever went to was utterly dominated by the Penguins' future Hall-of-Famers of the mid-90s, even the guy we dealt for one of the worst players in team history...Naslund hat trick, Jagr 2+1, Lemieux 3A, Francis 2A. Naturally the goal I remember most clearly was scored by none other than François Leroux. In the third game I ever went to Leroux picked up 22 PIMs and beat the ever-loving shit out of Tony Twist.

I mean...Mario Lemieux also scored 15 points in those 3 games...but that was almost expected. I probably saw the peaks of Leroux's career out of sheer good timing


The Penguins scored 7, 9, and 8 goals in the first 3 games I went to...no wonder the Penguins are the one part of Pittsburgh that I'll never let go of.

Absolutely adore your avatar (my favourite film ever)... and your story is pretty cool too!

 

[Gurglesons]

Wasn't Mike Condon a Penguin for, like, an hour?

Anyways, I'm sure there's some guy worth mentioning from the latter years of Shero/first year of Rutherford. Most of them were plugs, but some of them were serviceable players. I’m thinking of guys like Comrie and Comeau.

Longer then that. We actually got him off waivers than converted him into a 5th round pick.

 

[BHD]

Here is the game @Big McLargehuge is talking about...

Ottawa Senators at Pittsburgh Penguins Box Score — November 28, 1995 | Hockey-Reference.com

 

[LosingStreak06]

Here’s my contribution to the “that guy” lore:

Toby Petersen

Set the Baby Pens scoring record in 01, which stood for a good while before it was broken by (I think) Janne Pesonen. Petersen played a couple of seasons for the Pens and eventually ended up on the Stars. He won several speed competitions at AHL All-Star games, and perhaps most impressively, played with an insulin drip hooked up to him his whole career because he’s type 1 diabetic.

Later in his career he played on the Stars NHL squad when they faced the Redwings in the Western Conference finals (the same year they beat us for the Cup) and Petersen’s line was matched against the Zetterberg line, matching them goal-for-goal in Game 4 and holding the so-called Super Line scoreless for the first time in something like 11 playoff games during Game 5.

Petersen was a tough, undersized grinder and he managed to carve out a decent little career for himself.

 

[Don'tcry4mejanhrdina]

The first game I ever went to was utterly dominated by the Penguins' future Hall-of-Famers of the mid-90s, even the guy we dealt for one of the worst players in team history...Naslund hat trick, Jagr 2+1, Lemieux 3A, Francis 2A. Naturally the goal I remember most clearly was scored by none other than François Leroux. In the third game I ever went to Leroux picked up 22 PIMs and beat the ever-loving shit out of Tony Twist.

I mean...Mario Lemieux also scored 15 points in those 3 games...but that was almost expected. I probably saw the peaks of Leroux's career out of sheer good timing


The Penguins scored 7, 9, and 8 goals in the first 3 games I went to...no wonder the Penguins are the one part of Pittsburgh that I'll never let go of.

Was that the game Leroux taped foil onto his knuckles?

 

[Al Smith]

One of the first internet casualties.

I think he could have made his way to Stockton/Bakersfield wherever it is/was without his wife's tweets, but she didn't help, IIRC.

 

[Al Smith]

Here is the game @Big McLargehuge is talking about...

Ottawa Senators at Pittsburgh Penguins Box Score — November 28, 1995 | Hockey-Reference.com

It wasn't even Franky's first goal. I always knew he had a hidden Paul Coffey just waiting to break out.

 

[SomeDude]

Dan Focht...I have a memory of Fleury mishandling a puck as a rookie which led to Danny boy essentially being set up with a suicide pass. He got crushed and as the trainer came out to check on him while he laid staring up at the Civic Arena lights, the organist started playing the funeral dirge.

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Dan Focht...I have a memory of Fleury mishandling a puck as a rookie which led to Danny boy essentially being set up with a suicide pass. He got crushed and as the trainer came out to check on him as he laid staring up at the Civic Arena lights, the organist started playing the funeral dirge.

Oh my god Dan Focht

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Here’s my contribution to the “that guy” lore:

Toby Petersen

Set the Baby Pens scoring record in 01, which stood for a good while before it was broken by (I think) Janne Pesonen. Petersen played a couple of seasons for the Pens and eventually ended up on the Stars. He won several speed competitions at AHL All-Star games, and perhaps most impressively, played with an insulin drip hooked up to him his whole career because he’s type 1 diabetic.

Later in his career he played on the Stars NHL squad when they faced the Redwings in the Western Conference finals (the same year they beat us for the Cup) and Petersen’s line was matched against the Zetterberg line, matching them goal-for-goal in Game 4 and holding the so-called Super Line scoreless for the first time in something like 11 playoff games during Game 5.

Petersen was a tough, undersized grinder and he managed to carve out a decent little career for himself.

Oh man great call. Always liked Petersen.

His Mario-fed hat trick was one of the worst/best hat tricks I've ever seen.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

He was ungodly fast with zero hands before Dupuis and Hagelin made that cool.