The worst winger for a star center

[Steve]

Jonas Hoglund for Mats?

Crosby could write a book on this subject.

 

[Fire Sweeney]

PJ Axelsson with Marc Savard

 

[CherryToke]

Taylor Pyatt with Henrik Sedin.

 

[tfong]

Jarome Iginla rode the coattails of Conroy. Hes gotta be up there too.













jk

 

[Evergreen]

Nils Ekman

 

[Samuel Culper III]

It's probably Cheechoo. I mean he went from 56 goals with Thornton to the AHL pretty quick.

 

[Pavelski2112]

inb4 Cheechoo...too late

The guy was tied with Marleau for first in goals on the Sharks the year before Thornton was here, but whatever.

 

[member 96824]

Marc Savard played with PJ Axelsson and Byron ****ing Bitz.

 

[ScubaSteve*]

Hemsky

 

[SimplySensational]

Jay Beagle can turn Ovechkin-Backstrom from a 55% CF line into a 35% CF line, but Trotz will whine that plays are dying with Tom Wilson.

 

[SLAPSHOT723]

Cory Conacher played with Tavares and he was awful. May have made JT worse this season.

 

[Rocket of Russia]

Poor Crosby. It's been a decade. It's sad, really.

 

[GilliesGirlie]

Cory Conacher on Tavares' wing.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Robbie Brown has to be up there in that he played full-time with Mario for a while and produced little in comparison when not attached to Mario's hip...he's also among the worst skaters and worst defensive players I've ever seen play the game, so when he wasn't producing he was an absolute liability. Warren Young as well, to a lesser degree.

Sid & Geno have had some real garbage linemates, but few have stayed there full-time, more of a carousel of crap. The fact that Andy Hilbert isn't anywhere near the worst player to get 15+ games with those guys says it all.

Robbie Brown just could not skate at an NHL level. But, I believe he led the AHL in scoring one year. Warren Young scoring 40 is like Dustin Penner scoring 40.

 

[KingWantsCup]

My vote goes to Smith-Pelly. Should be way better. I don't know how he doesn't get a point per game playing with Getzlaf.

 

[BeautBabeC]

So annoying when people answer Cheechoo to this type of question. Such an underrated player around here

 

[mja]

Brent Fedyk leeched off of Lindros and Recchi for two seasons (and not even all that well) as a member of the Crazy 8's line - 8/88/18. Once Recchi was dealt to the Habs for LeClair and Desjardins Fedyk lost his spot next to Lindros and started getting scratched. He then bounced around between the NHL & the IHL for a few years before finally calling it quits.

 

[Appleyard]

So annoying when people answer Cheechoo to this type of question. Such an underrated player around here

Yeh, people who think he is/was a bad hockey player look at stats and never watched him when he was lighting it up...

One dimensional? Possibly. (his boardplay was good but his D sucked.)

Bad skater? Certainly.

Thornton inflated? Surely.

Bad hockey player? No way.

Injuries were really what killed him in the NHL, his already poor footspeed just became untenable in a league constantly getting faster.

He is still a ~PPG player in the KHL age 34, which is a hard league to be PPG in.

He was also a ~30 goal, ~50 point player before Thornton stepped foot in San Jose in one of the lowest scoring years in NHL history.

He would have been a 30+ goal scorer and on a 1st line for a few years on his own merit without Thornton.

 

[Wintersun]

My vote goes to Smith-Pelly. Should be way better. I don't know how he doesn't get a point per game playing with Getzlaf.

To be fair, even Perry has trouble getting a point per game with Getzlaf so...

 

[Cashville]

Cory Conacher played with Tavares and he was awful. May have made JT worse this season.

Wth happened to Conacher? He had a solid stretch with the Lightning then just fell off a cliff apparently; haven't kept up with him.

 

[WhatTheDuck]

My vote goes to Smith-Pelly. Should be way better. I don't know how he doesn't get a point per game playing with Getzlaf.

Well that's just absurd. DSP isn't really an offensive player, he likely won't ever top 20 goals or 50 points and that's not where his value lies. You don't magically turn into a top 10 scorer just by playing with one.

 

[tfong]

Wth happened to Conacher? He had a solid stretch with the Lightning then just fell off a cliff apparently; haven't kept up with him.

Was picking up a lot of secondary assists playing with MSL and Stamkos

 

[hohosaregood]

Yeh, people who think he is/was a bad hockey player look at stats and never watched him when he was lighting it up...

One dimensional? Possibly. (his boardplay was good but his D sucked.)

Bad skater? Certainly.

Thornton inflated? Surely.

Bad hockey player? No way.

Injuries were really what killed him in the NHL, his already poor footspeed just became untenable in a league constantly getting faster.

He is still a ~PPG player in the KHL age 34, which is a hard league to be PPG in.

He was also a ~30 goal, ~50 point player before Thornton stepped foot in San Jose in one of the lowest scoring years in NHL history.

He would have been a 30+ goal scorer and on a 1st line for a few years on his own merit without Thornton.

He was a fantastic skater but he was so so slow. Not many players who had his balance and strength. It was near impossible to knock him off the puck. I'm happy he's carved out a spot for himself in the KHL.

 

[HunterRice]

not really bad put, bob probert and steve yzerman

 

[chunkylover53]

Yeh, people who think he is/was a bad hockey player look at stats and never watched him when he was lighting it up...

One dimensional? Possibly. (his boardplay was good but his D sucked.)

Bad skater? Certainly.

Thornton inflated? Surely.

Bad hockey player? No way.

Injuries were really what killed him in the NHL, his already poor footspeed just became untenable in a league constantly getting faster.

He is still a ~PPG player in the KHL age 34, which is a hard league to be PPG in.

He was also a ~30 goal, ~50 point player before Thornton stepped foot in San Jose in one of the lowest scoring years in NHL history.

He would have been a 30+ goal scorer and on a 1st line for a few years on his own merit without Thornton.

Yeah what the hell. Cheechoo was overinflated by Thornton but he doesn't belong here because he's a decent player in his own right. Injuries absolutely decimated him.