Non-star players from your team history you miss the most

[Machinehead]

We still never replaced the role Benoit Pouliot played.

 

[MuckOG]

From the Wild: Kyle Brodziak, Charlie Coyle and Andrew Brunette

 

[JKG33]

He's not retired but Luke Schenn for the Leafs. Him and ROR both opting to leave because they didn't want to play with these sorry ass losers is telling

 

[The Flying Octopus]

Tomas Holmstrom

Scored a lot of dirty goals, broke his back most games, terrible skater, but a dawg in the corners and net front

 

[orby]

Patric Hornqvist.

 

[OkimLom]

Buffalo Sabres:

Stu Barnes, Jochen Hecht, Curtis Brown, Rhett Warner

 

[Section 104]

Esa Tikkanen
Bob Nevin
Reijo Ruotsalainen

 

[gritdash60]

From the Wild: Kyle Brodziak and Andrew Brunette

Biggest ass in the game Andrew Brunette. Good luck trying to move him in the front of the net.

Well yeah Jagr had a bigger butt, but he doesnt count since hes a freak of nature.

 

[End on a Hinote]

Gino Odjick RIP

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Sami Salo

 

[Choralone]

Michal Handzus

 

[gritdash60]

Sami Salo

Glass testicle is what we jokingly call him in Finland, what a great player.

 

[mogs]

Dmitri Yushkevich, Igor Korolev, Sergei Berezin, Gary Roberts, Darcy Tucker, Steve Thomas.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Esa Tikkanen

A star. Could even end up in hall of fame eventually since Kevin Lowe did.

 

[Caps8112]

for the caps

Brian Bellows. I know he was a good player throughout his career but I remember the Caps signing him late in the season and I thought how was this guy unsigned.

Ulf Dahlen. Another guy that had been around the league a bit but he skated so uniquely and really had a good career with the caps.

 

[Mickey Marner]

Hyman if he doesn’t count as a star, Roberts, Yuskevich, Markov, Stumpy.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Marian Hossa. The guy was a beast at both ends of the ice. Had such good chemistry with Toews.

 

[AndreRoy]

I do not know if it played a part on this or not but in a Finnish podcast run by a NHL commentator and Kimmo Timonen, Filppula said he had hard time with the weather in Tampa. Not like he couldnt handle it, but to some Finns that kind of climate feels like you are just on a vacation in some tropical paradise which makes it harder to have the right mentality on playing the game right way. I bet some Canadians can agree on that as well. Ofcourse it's not the same for everybody.

For a reference in my home town where Barkov and Laine and others are from, the forecast says we get snow the day after tomorrow and the highest temperature during the day will be +2celsius (35.6℉). Obviously Filppula was already a NHL veteran, but i hope you can imagine what it feels like to some people be in place like Tampa when you have born and raised in such a different place. It can and will, to some people put their mind in a "vacation mode" which obviously is something you dont want while playing in the best league in the world.

Then again, thats on them and a flaw in their game if they cant focus while playing in any climate.

Interesting theory. I never got the impression that he wasn’t working hard, though - he just didn’t want to shoot the puck for some reason. Other than that he was a solid player for us.

 

[CascadiaPuck]

Sami Salo

Such a warrior. Also miss Burrows.

 

[DaveG]

a few Canes:

Glen Wesley
Kevyn Adams
Tim Gleason
Josef Vasicek
Matt Cullen
Ron Hainsey
Nic Wallin
Scott Walker
Chad LaRose

 

[gritdash60]

Interesting theory. I never got the impression that he wasn’t working hard, though - he just didn’t want to shoot the puck for some reason. Other than that he was a solid player for us.

I might be way off on that, was just providing some context.

 

[Svechhammer]

Josef Vasicek - but that's more on a personal level because he was a neighbor when he was here and died on the Lokomotiv crash

 

[Gh24]

Mattias Ekholm

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Glass testicle is what we jokingly call him in Finland, what a great player.

Awesome lol. BALLS OF STEEL.

Very underrated player.

 

[HolyHagelin]

See name/avatar.