Retired players who are still in great shape

[JA]

Not Keith Tkachuk, thats forsure.

 

[FLYLine27*]

I want to see which players got fat. Like Keith.

 

[JA]

The two guys in the middle must feel really small.

 

[HabsQC]

Alex Kovalev and Marc Bergevin

 

[jetsforever]

Patrick Roy

 

[BrockBoeser6]

Markus Naslund

 

[Wendelstache]

Not Keith Tkachuk, thats forsure.

Keith Tkachuk ate Will Sasso.

 

[Sens Rule]

I know there are veterans games at times.

I remember that in the early 90's baseball had a seniors league for awhile. The PGA has the senior tour.

I would PAY to see a league of star retired players that played more Shinny or like in All star games. Little hitting but lots of finesse.

Like have a league with 4 or 6 teams of star retired players, play 20 game seasons with no actual city they are associated with. Tour big and small cities in Canada and the hockey hungry Northern US and I think that could be both fun and profitable. If they did it moreso in the offseason of hockey and only charged $20-30 bucks for the better seats they might even get a small Canadian TV deal. Even have a best of 3 playoff round. So you watch beer leaguers who are all timers at hockey in their late 30's, 40's and early 50's playing likely low systems, high offence but low physicality hockey for fun, but competively and trying to win, while entertsining the fans and not hurting each other.... I would totally watch that. And fans in Duluth or Flint or Red Deer or Val D'or or Kingston and maybe one game on occassion in big cities like Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit etc. People would pay to watch it. 5000 fans at $25 a pop is $125,000 a game. If they could make $100,000 K a game which is not unrealistic it could be viable. Players have fun. Fans have fun, see star NHLers they never saw. Not a pricey endevour. Rich players don't care about the money. Some ex-players might appreciate a little extra cash.

Anyway, I think it could be a fun a viable thing to organize.

 

[Sens Rule]

I want to see which players got fat. Like Keith.

I bet lots of fat ex players still got some game left.

 

[Gunnar Staal]

I want to see which players got fat. Like Keith.

Kevin Stevens takes the cake for this contest, pun intended.

 

[JA]

I know there are veterans games at times.

I remember that in the early 90's baseball had a seniors league for awhile. The PGA has the senior tour.

I would PAY to see a league of star retired players that played more Shinny or like in All star games. Little hitting but lots of finesse.

Like have a league with 4 or 6 teams of star retired players, play 20 game seasons with no actual city they are associated with. Tour big and small cities in Canada and the hockey hungry Northern US and I think that could be both fun and profitable. If they did it moreso in the offseason of hockey and only charged $20-30 bucks for the better seats they might even get a small Canadian TV deal. Even have a best of 3 playoff round. So you watch beer leaguers who are all timers at hockey in their late 30's, 40's and early 50's playing likely low systems, high offence but low physicality hockey for fun, but competively and trying to win, while entertsining the fans and not hurting each other.... I would totally watch that. And fans in Duluth or Flint or Red Deer or Val D'or or Kingston and maybe one game on occassion in big cities like Montreal, Ottawa, Detroit etc. People would pay to watch it. 5000 fans at $25 a pop is $125,000 a game. If they could make $100,000 K a game which is not unrealistic it could be viable. Players have fun. Fans have fun, see star NHLers they never saw. Not a pricey endevour. Rich players don't care about the money. Some ex-players might appreciate a little extra cash.

Anyway, I think it could be a fun a viable thing to organize.

This exists. It's called the World Legends Hockey League. They played their first annual tournament earlier this year. It's a rather short tournament and is based in Europe, but the potential is there for it to grow.

 

[Seider Town]

Here's Martin Lapointe from a couple months ago at the Wings/Aves alumni game. Dude looks like he's been staying in pretty good shape.

42 years old and in fantastic shape, I'm sure he could still play if he had to.

 

[JA]

 

[serp]

Mike Keane apparently is still in great shape . Then again he also still played in the AHL 6 years ago at 42/43 so probably not a suprise here.

 

[JA]

 

[ColeJ]

i love that lindros has adopted the "fat grandpa" look... and is still rocking a stars bucket for the flyers alumni

 

[Sens Rule]

This exists. It's called the World Legends Hockey League. They played their first annual tournament earlier this year. It's a rather short tournament and is based in Europe, but the potential is there for it to grow.

Who is the grey haired guy in the picture with the trophy? Larianov?

I would love to have this legends league be a real thing in north america. Heck they could tour Europe with the same team.

 

[JA]

Who is the grey haired guy in the picture with the trophy? Larianov?

I would love to have this legends league be a real thing in north america. Heck they could tour Europe with the same team.

That's Slava Fetisov.

 

[Sens Rule]

That's Slava Fetisov.

Wow would love to see him play!

 

[Johnnybegood13]

Lanny Macdonald is 63 and would make most 40 year olds look stupid. Here he is at 61 helping out the flood relief in Calgary. Amazing guy!

 

[McGhostbuster]

Kovalchuk

 

[Royale With Cheese]

And then, next year...

 

[Langdon Alger]

i love that lindros has adopted the "fat grandpa" look... and is still rocking a stars bucket for the flyers alumni

What's higher? Lindros' career points or his weight?

 

[Hemsky001]

Petr Nedved, Petr Prucha, Martin Rucinsky

 

[Semantics]

Mike Keane apparently is still in great shape . Then again he also still played in the AHL 6 years ago at 42/43 so probably not a suprise here.

5% body fat? Yeah right...