Souray's Story from Players Tribune

[Bleedred]

Colin White had a powerful shot too; the difference was somewhere down the road Souray learned how to put it on goal.

Yup.

Colin White broke many a glass and probably severely damaged many shinpads of other players throughout his career.

*Obligatory Colin White bashing post*

 

[Wingman77]

When I was younger I used to go down for a lot of warm-ups before games and White's shot was one of the harder ones on the team year after year and he didn't have a dramatic wind up either, in fact he hardly had any wind up at all. He only went about 1/4 of the way back.

 

[Richer's Ghost]

Didn't Marty say Colin had the most deceptively hard slap shot on the team at one point? Might have been Arnott, but I think it was White. Everyone knew Arnott had a cannon.

 

[Bleedred]

Didn't Marty say Colin had the most deceptively hard slap shot on the team at one point? Might have been Arnott, but I think it was White. Everyone knew Arnott had a cannon.

It was definitely White he said that about.

 

[Brodeur]

Apologies for the bump, but I've been entertaining myself going through the 90s era drafts and remembered a Souray draft day story. At the 2008 Draft, the Red Wings were targeting goalie Thomas McCollum at #30. I remember seeing video of Detroit GM Ken Holland telling another staffer that he was worried that the Devils were aiming for McCollum as we traded down a couple times. Holland then said something along the lines of "Remember when they stole Souray from us?"

I was impressed that Holland still had scars from a mid-round pick from 1994. Until today I didn't know that we traded up to move past Detroit for Souray. Detroit was picking #75 and our pick was #77, Lou would trade up to #71 for Souray and Detroit ended up with somebody who didn't make it.

 

[britdevil]

Necro thread

OT: What the f*** happened in the last 5 years. We truly living the darkest timeline.

 

[Nubmer6]

Necro thread

Oh weird. I didn't even realize when I started reading it. I thought DD was back.