Lets Remember Some Guys

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

His hands made Hagelin's look like Mario's.

 

[SomeDude]

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

You'd skate pretty fast too if you turned around and saw Lyle Odelein lurking behind you.

 

[The Old Master]

Yeah I noticed I miswrote it, way before my time lol. I wanted to edit my post, but i thought it might mess up the photos.

he was the only player that seemed better, playing with out a stick. so his nickname was no stick nick.
{well, with some fans anyway}

 

[theicebox]

I think he was mentioned earlier, but Johan Hedberg has likely the most iconic goalie mask in Penguins history. The 2000-01 playoff run combined with Lemieux's comeback and the Straka-Lang-Kovalev line was so much fun.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

You'd skate pretty fast too if you turned around and saw Lyle Odelein lurking behind you.

I believe you meant "Cornelius".

 

[SomeDude]

I think he was mentioned earlier, but Johan Hedberg has likely the most iconic goalie mask in Penguins history. The 2000-01 playoff run combined with Lemieux's comeback and the Straka-Lang-Kovalev line was so much fun.

While the Moose is up there.....

 

[Rakell67]

Was a big fan of Boughner.

 

[Still Apps]

Bryan Smolinski- as a 24 year old he had 24 goals and 40 assists as the Pens 3rd line center in '95-'96. Pens wouldn't pay him and he was gone the next year. Easy come, easy go and mostly forgotten.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Mike Zigomanis

Steve Sullivan was fun while he was here

 

[Mario_is_BACK!!]

Mike Zigomanis

I loved the 2K glitch that turned him like 10 feet tall.

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

I loved the 2K glitch that turned him like 10 feet tall.

Omg how did I miss that.

I remember him being acquired to be faceoff winning machine and then he got injured for 80% of his time here before he left

 

[SomeDude]

Omg how did I miss that.

I remember him being acquired to be faceoff winning machine and then he got injured for 80% of his time here before he left

Still got his name on the Cup. Even though he didn’t qualify, the team lobbied to have him on. Not bad for a 22 game stint with a team.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Man, you people love your trash goalies.

Imagine if MAF was a few years older!

 

[Randy Butternubs]

Max Talbot

 

[Big McLargehuge]

I loved the 2K glitch that turned him like 10 feet tall.

Ah, Mike Gigamanis.

 

[EightyOne]

Ah, Mike Gigamanis.

Can't find any corroborating evidence of this glitch...

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Can't find any corroborating evidence of this glitch...

Me neither, now...though decade-old glitches and gifs can be a bitch to find. It was pretty much the reverse of Madden's 11" tall linebacker from a few years ago, except Mike Zigomanis was 11 feet tall instead.

This may have been one of those glitches they quietly fixed before they realized they could just use them as a form of viral marketing (ie: making an advertisement based on checks sending players into the 20th row in NHL 12).

 

[Tacitus Kilgore]

Still got his name on the Cup. Even though he didn’t qualify, the team lobbied to have him on. Not bad for a 22 game stint with a team.

Wow, I'd be pretty jazzed if I were him. I hardly even remember those 22 games, could've swore it was less.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

I just remember a bunch of Penguins fans getting all hot and bothered with the vapors because of those HAWT faceoff wins that really gets a certain segment of hockey fans super jazzed for some reason.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

I loved the 2K glitch that turned him like 10 feet tall.

I wanna say that was NHL 2002.

 

[HandshakeLine]

Here's my all-time "This Dude Should Be Remembered" Post:

Jiří Hrdina. Not Jan, no relation. But Jiří Hrdina (drafted in 1984) was one of the first Czechoslovak players to come over post-Šťastný defections, where he won a Cup with Calgary in 1990. We traded him in December of that year to mentor another young Czech player. Some dude I forgot his name. Real promising, terrible hair, bad business instincts. Anyhow Jiří went on to play a very valuable support role for two years on the first two Pens Cup squads before retiring to work as a scout.

 

[Allie Kitsune]

I just remember a bunch of Penguins fans getting all hot and bothered with the vapors because of those HAWT faceoff wins that really gets a certain segment of hockey fans super jazzed for some reason.

Wasn't Dominic Moore also brought in to be a faceoff specialist at some point?

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

Wasn't Dominic Moore also brought in to be a faceoff specialist at some point?

Yeah IIRC.

I've had fans tell me with a straight face that 49% FO is terrible and utterly unacceptable but 52% is just fine and in fact even pretty good.

So ridiculously overstated.

 

[HandshakeLine]

But, see, the casual fans don't even know about faceoffs! So, it's a way of showing you're not like the other unwashed rabble.

 

[BlindWillyMcHurt]

But, see, the casual fans don't even know about faceoffs! So, it's a way of showing you're not like the other unwashed rabble.

I mean isn't that what it kind of is? Like trying to defend a horrible player you happen to like for some reason with "intangibles?" Or those weird football fans who always wanna butt in with "yeah but special teams wins games n'at!" We get it... you guys really, really wanna coach something.