Worst players you've seen...

[ClassicHockey]

Cherry should talk.

If you talk to the players who played against Don Cherry in the minors, they laugh at two things - the fact that Cherry was not a very good hockey player (he couldn't turn well and was a 5th defenceman in the American league, and,
they laugh at how Cherry made himself up to be so tough when he really wasn't.
Ivan Irwin, a noted tough player in the NHL, was asked if he had to watch for Don Cherry and he said, "we never worried about the talkers".

I'm by no means old enough to remember but was Hardy Astrom as bad a goalie as Don Cherry said?

If he was, who the hell was his backup that made it to the NHL and was worse?

 

[ProctorSilex]

When I saw Brett Lindros with the national team many years ago I thought he might possibly be the worst player I had ever seen on the ice at such an elite level.

1994-95 Kingston Frontenacs OHL GP: 26 G: 24 A: 23 Pts: 47 PIM: 63

Yeah, real horrible stats. Worst player ever.

 

[Hasbro]

I'm by no means old enough to remember but was Hardy Astrom as bad a goalie as Don Cherry said?

If he was, who the hell was his backup that made it to the NHL and was worse?

You have no idea. Alot of Rockies slugs that just blended together.

Rich Pilon, I think he turned down a promising career as a lumberjack.

 

[Stephen]

I think Rob Pearson with the Leafs was really painful to watch. He could barely skate out there.

Don Beaupre was also really crappy at the end of his career with Toronto. Really sad.

 

[Dogbert*]

Rob Niedermayer in a Flames jersey was as bad as I've ever seen.

In 2002-03, my father and I counted 15 points that Patrice Brisebois cost the Canadiens by himself over the course of the season. Those points would have translated into a playoff spot. Not the worst player ever... maybe the worst season.

 

[hockeyfan125]

Last year in the 2nd round, the Flames made Derian Hatcher look like a giant joke on skates.

 

[txomisc]

I know there's been a lot, and a lot of them just played a game or two in the NHL. But as for people that basically had a full time job for at least a season?

Eric Lacroix - nepotism at it's finest.
Jiri Dopita - might be a Czech hero but he busted hard on my 2 favorite teams
Gino Odjick - might as well have put Mike Tyson on skates, at least he wouldn't have had a man crush on Pavel.

I know Eric Lacroix wasnt exactly great but he did score 30 points three years in a row. Nothing to get excited about mut certainly not one of the worst ive seen

 

[Reaper45]

John Tripp was pretty bad in his stint here in L.A., same with Chris McAlpine.

 

[GentlemanOfLeisure]

Worst player I ever saw was Kent Paynter. The guy had the worst rating for NHL 93' for sega genisis. Paynter while he was with the capitals was responsible for Claude Lemieux wearing an eye shield for the rest of his career. Paynter high sticked him in a game and nearly took Claude's eye out. He got a game misconduct. I do believe that was the only game he played that season and he barely made it through the first period before being thrown out.

As for Hardy Astrom. For over ten years he held the Rockies-Devils record for single season GAA. Sean Burke in 1988 broke his record. He wasnt that bad of a goalie. He just let in really soft goals at inopportune times. The other Rockies goalies just let in every goal at every time.

 

[ProctorSilex]

I know Eric Lacroix wasnt exactly great but he did score 30 points three years in a row. Nothing to get excited about mut certainly not one of the worst ive seen

But who couldn't have on Colorado that year?

 

[MasterD]

But who couldn't have on Colorado that year?

Key words being "three years in a row"

 

[GB]

Andrei Racicot

I remember him coming over to Britain, and he was pretty poor over here, a league in which Frank Pietrangelo was the best goalie in.

 

[ProctorSilex]

Key words being "three years in a row"

and again key words... who couldn't?

 

[John Flyers Fan]

and again key words... who couldn't?

..and the first time he did it he was an LA King.

His 36 points in 96-97 were more than teammates: Rene Corbet, Mike Keane, Stephane Yelle and Mike Ricci (Ricci did miss some time).

The following year he was 7th on the Avs in scoring.

 

[mattihp]

The team that Ukraine had on ice and called an ice hockey team in this year's world champs

Rumour has it finnish wood-industry company Metso sent them a gold medal and a trophy for "First place in World Championships of Lumberjacking on ice"

 

[Bring Back Bucky]

1994-95 Kingston Frontenacs OHL GP: 26 G: 24 A: 23 Pts: 47 PIM: 63

Yeah, real horrible stats. Worst player ever.

I stated an opinion, thanks just the same.. And yeah, no terrible players have EVER managed a point a game in junior..

 

[jamiebez]

Sergei Bautin, a defenceman that Mike Smith drafted for the Jets in the early 90s (in the first round, no less)

This was the worst of the many stiffs Smith drafted over the years that actually made it to the NHL. There were a couple of other guys he drafted (Davydov) that only had any kind of careers of note for the Jets because he created such a Russian-friendly culture on the team. Once they got traded, they were dropped like hot potatoes by their new teams because they sucked.

 

[Malefic74]

Brent Gretzky?

 

[Dr Love]

Hands down, Dan Kordic.

That was his fighting style too.

 

[jb**]

Hands down, Dan Kordic.

No love for Dan Kordic? He wasn't that bad, if he didn't blow out his knee in the early 90's would have been a nice dman for 10 or so years played very well his rookie year for the Flyers. Boy could he throw em though and could take a punch as well. As a winger not the worst. Close.

 

[silver_made*]

Joe Cirella

wow, did that guy suck.

 

[Frightened Inmate #2]

That was his fighting style too.

But he could take a punch with the best of them.

 

[sunb]

Martin Brochu.

 

[12# Peter Bondra]

Gordie Dwyer

 

[Pavel]

Dennis Vial