Non-Star Player From Your Franchise's Past You Look Back on Glowingly

[Scandale du Jour]

Cannot believe no Pens fan mentionned Maxime Talbot yet.

 

[GoSenatorsGo]

As a Sens fan

Wade Redden, Matt Carkner and Magnus Arvedson we’re three of my all time favorite Senators

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Derek Armstrong. Feel like I ran into that guy everywhere I went in a 3 year span

Adam Deadmarsh, probably borderline star.

Willie Mitchell, Rob Scuderi, Matt Greene, Robyn Regehr. Totally unsung and crapped on in the advanced stats era. All heart.

Jaroslav Modry. Kinda synchronous with some shitty Kings' teams, but he was one of the only guys who stuck around through a lot of shit.

Robb Stauber!

Tony Granato, probably borderline star.

Ian Laperriere.

Lotta non-star names we had to latch onto over years of being godawful, you had to look for heart and personality to enjoy hockey at times, or small miracles to get out of a playoff round.

 

[Voight]

Steve Larmer (some may consider him a star), Antti Niemi. Kris Versteeg, Dan Carcillo

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Matt Cullen, Pascal Dupuis, and my two inexplicable favorites growing up: Ken Wregget & Aleksey Morozov.

 

[De Montreal]

Francis Bouillon was one exciting dman. Built like a cube, hit like a truck. Made Tucker his bitch.

 

[DudeWhereIsMakar]

Zach Bogosian. I mean he was a star, but he's bound to be 3rd pairing for the rest of his career or number one on a bad team.

Great guy though, sadly didn't make the best choices in life.

 

[TheAngryHank]

Matt Cooke.

 

[Soundgarden]

Scotty Walker.

 

[Sentinel]

Detroit has too many, like the Grind Line (all four of them), Lapoint, Kozlov, but I'll go with Tomas Holmstrom. One of the most easily identifiable Red Wings of all time (alright, maybe he can be confused with Cicarelli sometimes). Heart of a lion. Would cost us an occasional goal (especially before that stupid foot-in-the-crease rule was eliminated), but bring so much more to the table! I wouldn't mind seeing his jersey retired.

 

[Tru]

Dan Hinote is still one of my favorite Avs players of all time. He just always seemed to have a smile on his face, and loved what he was doing.

Ian Laperriere is also hard not the like.

Danny Hinote instantly came to my mind. Loved his attitude and always seemed to be giving 110% every time he was on the ice.

#13 was the first Avs jersey I bought!

 

[Martinez]

My favorite player growing up, at the time I thought he was every bit as important as yzerman, fedorov, shanny

 

[RoyalDoubleMcCheesie]

Have to say Bob Probert (RIP) his mom use to live by me as a kid and if saw us out playing road hockey he would grab a stick and come play for a bit and as a 10 year I can say I dropped the gloves with one of the great fighters

 

[GoJetsGo55]

I will defend Avery until the death of me. When I played HS hockey I tried to play exactly like him

Can we get an Admin in here please.

 

[SenzZen]

Tugnutt
Zholtok
Pitlick
Arvedson

 

[JT Kreider]

Can we get an Admin in here please.

I don't get it. Avery Was badass and has a horrible rap for a player that rarely crossed the line when it came to injuring an opponent

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Joe Mullen.

While he was a star in his own right, Pens were blessed with many all-time talents and he flew under the radar when he was a Penguin.

He played the game with his own unique style and always seemed to come up with a big goal at the right time.

Easily my favorite Pens player ever with Kovy and Zubov.

 

[TNT87]

Matt Cullen
Phil Bourque
Troy Loney

 

[Kind Sir]

STL Blues: Bobby Plager, the inspiration for "Slapshot."

 

[Rusty Razor]

Marty Straka and Robert Lang. That line with Kovalev was my favorite line growing up.

 

[MattMartin]

Matt Martin
Dave Scatchard
Darius Kasparaitus

And anyone who played in this game....

 

[OldnotDeadWings]

Yeah there are so many non-star Wings who were fun to watch when the team was bad or important to winning when they got good. The idiots in charge at various times in the past traded away some of my favorites (Henry Boucha, Kelly Kisio, Dallas Drake) much too soon. I'll add Nick Libett, Shawn Burr (RIP), Gerard Gallant and Mathieu Dandenault to those already mentioned. Also, Dennis Polonich, a tough little SOB who would drop with anybody.

 

[LMFAO]

Darcy Tucker