Name a random Canuck

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Zenith Komarniski has to be an entry in the “all name” team. He hung around the organization for a while, actually.

Tom Fergus has a really nice half-season with the Canucks in the early 90s, and his line with Nedved and Sandlak was dynamite in the playoffs that season, too.

Found the video of Komarniski’s Center ice goal on Roy:

 

[President of Hockey]

Canadiens' GM Marc Bergevin played the last 9 of his almost 1,200 NHL games with the Canucks.

 

[ultra7k]

Drake Berehowsky
Bryan Helmer

 

[Interior Cascadian]

From the depths of goaltending obscurity, how about journeyman Sean Burke and Mika Noronen.

I actually grew up idolizing Burkie when other goalies were fixated on Roy, Belfour, and Hasek. He almost single-handedly carried those marginally playoff-worthy Coyotes teams in their post-Khabibulin era.

 

[LuckyDay]

From the depths of goaltending obscurity, how about journeyman Sean Burke and Mika Noronen.

I actually grew up idolizing Burkie when other goalies were fixated on Roy, Belfour, and Hasek. He almost single-handedly carried those marginally playoff-worthy Coyotes teams in their post-Khabibulin era.

One of those buried in Vancouver's Goalie Graveyard. One time considered the best goaltender in the world.

The thing about that era, the WCE era, is we weren't playing defense so we needed a goalie that was willing to put up with a lot of quality shots against. We ended up giving up a lot of assets getting guys like these until we finally got the goalie we wanted, Dan Cloutier.

 

[Interior Cascadian]

One of those buried in Vancouver's Goalie Graveyard. One time considered the best goaltender in the world.

The thing about that era, the WCE era, is we weren't playing defense so we needed a goalie that was willing to put up with a lot of quality shots against. We ended up giving up a lot of assets getting guys like these until we finally got the goalie we wanted, Dan Cloutier.

Curious- do you think Clouts was a better goalie than his reputation suggests? I feel like a general lack of defense and a few stinkers (like Lidstrom’s dump in from center ice) unfairly cemented his legacy, but my bias might be getting in the way of reality.

 

[Interior Cascadian]

EDIT: Double post.

 

[MS]

Curious- do you think Clouts was a better goalie than his reputation suggests? I feel like a general lack of defense and a few stinkers (like Lidstrom’s dump in from center ice) unfairly cemented his legacy, but my bias might be getting in the way of reality.

He was even worse than his reputation suggests.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

random goalies who should have been handed the starting job for keeps, in order of how much the coach just needed to get his head out of his rear end:

(in the miller year)

and what the hell why not noronen?

 

[LuckyDay]

Curious- do you think Clouts was a better goalie than his reputation suggests? I feel like a general lack of defense and a few stinkers (like Lidstrom’s dump in from center ice) unfairly cemented his legacy, but my bias might be getting in the way of reality.

Absolutely I do. His bad reputation only came at the end of his career, at the end of the WCE era and cemented when LA overpaid for him after injury when the media and fans needed a narrative on that fading Canucks team.

The bad goal he let in at Detroit was just fodder for Detroit fans and the media and unfortunate. But MacLean gave up several of those goals (two by Bourque alone) because he was asleep at the wheel as was his habit, but those never hurt his reputation.

I submit how Potvin, Burke, Weeks, et al. fared behind the team who's main goal was to get rears back in the seats after the loss of the '94 team and Bure, when you look at Cloutier's record.

 

[westvandal]

Justin Kurtz
Vadim Sharifjanov
Steve Kariya

 

[The Stig]

Richard Park

 

[PavelBure10]

Byron Ritchie

 

[bandwagonesque]

Has anyone said Jim Agnew?

 

[Ace of Hades]

Sven Butenschön

 

[PavelBure10]

Don Cherry

It's true, look it up...

 

[M2Beezy]

 

[Frank Garrett]

Samuel Pahlsson

 

[Zippgunn]

Hilliard Graves...

 

[bandwagonesque]

Samuel Pahlsson

The two 4th round picks traded for him became Josh Anderson, who will probably have a long NHL career, and Taylor Leier, who has been a useful AHL forward.

 

[Jyrki21]

random goalies who should have been handed the starting job for keeps, in order of how much the coach just needed to get his head out of his rear end:

Needs more Skudra.

 

[Hit the post]

in order of how much the coach just needed to get his head out of his rear end:

Green ain't no Al Pacino:

 

[joelCAMEL]

I was searching this former first overall pick in 1975 and do not even remember him finishing his career in Vancouver, before earning an MBA from Wharton. He was a former NHL PA president and NHL GM.

 

[RobertKron]

Mark Wotton played in the AHL until 10-11.

 

[PG Canuck]

Trevor Letowski