What was with Craig Janney?

[Magnus Fulgur]

Ah, very cool interview...

http://enfield.patch.com/articles/catching-up-with-local-hockey-legend-craig-janney

From this, I can glean that he loved the open ice play of youth hockey and didn't care as much for NHL hockey.

 

[BubbaBoot]

Kind of reminds me a little of one of my favorite Bruins, Keith Crowder.

Played like gangbusters up to the age of 27 (38 goals / 84 points), had some injuries and his offensive stats fell in each subsequent season, eventually retiring after signing as a FA with the Kings for one year at the age of 31, (4 goals / 17 points).

Just a dramatic decline....

 

[S E P H]

Man I feel sorry for this guy. Brendan was his best man and he cheated on him.

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Let's not get carried away. Scoring 20+ goals and over 70 pts once in a career doesn't get you anywhere near the hof. A good player though not taking away from him just nowhere near hof caliber.

That's exactly what I said.

 

[Jumptheshark]

it was suggested by a few that he was too smart for his own good sometimes

 

[Blades of Glory]

Brendan Shanahan and Jeff Brown on the same team? Lock up your wives.

 

[Hardyvan123]

He was the original Scott Gomez.

Exactly, someone else said poor man's Pierre Turgeon but Pierre could actually score goals.

Very poor man version of Oates, a great playmaker but not much else, personal stuff didn't help his career much either.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Exactly, someone else said poor man's Pierre Turgeon but Pierre could actually score goals.

Very poor man version of Oates, a great playmaker but not much else, personal stuff didn't help his career much either.

oates was one of the great faceoff men of his generation and was decent defensively. i still like my spezza comparison. not undersized, but s o f t. if he wasn't passing the puck, he wasn't doing much. also, both put up more points in the playoffs than you'd think.

 

[doakacola*]

Still doesn't mean he had any Heart, he was notoriously soft and was an incredibly small 6'1 200+ lb player.
The guy played red-line to red-line...the center one to the one the oppositions net sits on.

He was still an effective player for those Boston teams. I have lived in Boston my entire life and saw just about all his Boston games. I'm not quibbling about soft play,
but there is a place on every team in the NHL, even today for a player of his skill set.
Care to fill me in on your accomplishments dude?

 

[seventieslord]

Exactly, someone else said poor man's Pierre Turgeon but Pierre could actually score goals.

I said "really poor man's Pierre Turgeon" - and "in every way" - which includes scoring goals.

- Pierre Turgeon was a great playmaker... So was Janney, just not as great.
- Turgeon was a great goalscorer too... Janney scored a respectable amount of NHL goals
- Turgeon was nothing special defensively... Janney was worse.
- Turgeon was considered soft physically... Janney was worse.
- For such a softie, Turgeon sure managed to post numbers in the playoffs... Janney was pretty much equal in this regard, although a lot of 1988-1991 games help him here.

 

[overpass]

oates was one of the great faceoff men of his generation and was decent defensively. i still like my spezza comparison. not undersized, but s o f t. if he wasn't passing the puck, he wasn't doing much. also, both put up more points in the playoffs than you'd think.

Maybe 2006 Spezza. Spezza shoots the puck more now and is much better defensively and on faceoffs. What about Mike Ribeiro as a comparable?

 

[Rabid Ranger]

I said "really poor man's Pierre Turgeon" - and "in every way" - which includes scoring goals.

- Pierre Turgeon was a great playmaker... So was Janney, just not as great.
- Turgeon was a great goalscorer too... Janney scored a respectable amount of NHL goals
- Turgeon was nothing special defensively... Janney was worse.
- Turgeon was considered soft physically... Janney was worse.
- For such a softie, Turgeon sure managed to post numbers in the playoffs... Janney was pretty much equal in this regard, although a lot of 1988-1991 games help him here.

You must have had a Turgeon crush, but your critique of Janney (as compared to Turgeon) is out to lunch.

 

[Breakfast of Champs]

That's exactly what I said.

you said a "good if not hof calibre"

Gomez was never in the same stratosphere as a hof calibre player

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

you said a "good if not hof calibre"

Gomez was never in the same stratosphere as a hof calibre player

I meant good but not HOF caliber, sorry if there was a misunderstanding due to my choice of words.

 

[seventieslord]

You must have had a Turgeon crush, but your critique of Janney (as compared to Turgeon) is out to lunch.

why? to be perfectly honest, I can't even tell if you're trying to say I'm over- or underrating Janney.

 

[Rhiessan71]

why? to be perfectly honest, I can't even tell if you're trying to say I'm over- or underrating Janney.

Heh, you're over-estimating if anything, you said Janney scored goals lol

188 goals in 760 games with a total of 3 20 goal seasons hardly compares to 515 in 1294 with a 50 goal season, 2 40's, 6 30's and 4 20's.

The rest of your assessment is bang on imo.