Your all-time Castoff team

cynicism

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Inspired by a couple of recent threads (most notably the draft busts one) I thought it might be fun to create a team from players that your favorite team has traded away over the years.

To make this a bit more interesting, the player must have had some modicum of team and/or personal success with his new team(s). So if you were doing Boston, you could list Joe Thornton, but not Bobby Orr since he spent more time in Chicago Hospitals than in Chicago Stadium.

Since I'm a Toronto fan, here we go

Goal*
Bernie Parent
Tukka Rask
Ken Wregget

*Gerry Cheevers was a Leaf draft pick, but he was merely released by the team and not traded (at least according to wiki). Otherwise he would've been an easy inclusion. Wregget became a very dependable backup in Pittsburgh, at times supplanting Barrasso.

Defense:

Randy Carlyle-Mathieu Schneider
Jason Smith-Kenny Jonsson
Al Iafrate-Larry Murphy
Luke Richardson

Forwards:

Frank Mahovlich-Vincent Damphousse-Lanny Mcdonald
Dave Andreychuk-Brad Boyes-Fred Modin
Alex Steen-Yanic Perreault-Russ Courtnall
Mike Eastwood-Alyn Mcauley-Shawn Thornton

Stretching it a bit with the forwards. I'm sure I made some glaring omissions.

Enjoy and come up with your own team!
 

seventieslord

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Shawn Thornton and Adam Mair have been very solid 4th liners for a while now, and most people forget they were originally Leaf draft picks. Actually, Kevyn Adams was a good 4th liner for a decade too, and the Leafs grabbed him out of college. they had the makings of an energy line with a reasonably skilled tough guy and did'nt even realize it.
 

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I think the Habs would have the best starting lineup.

Leclair - Turgeon - Recchi
Desjardins - Chelios
Roy
 

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Here's my take for the Oilers:

Smyth - Gretzky - Kurri
Rucinsky - Messier - Czerkawski
Gelinas - Arnott- Guerin
Maltby - Weight - Satan
Cleary Stoll


Coffey - Pronger
Hamrlik - Manson
Beukeboom - McGillis
Greene

Moog
Fuhr
Ranford

I basically excluded anyone whose career took a direct linear path into the ground after they left, which fits many of the post-dynasty ex-Oilers (tikkanen, lowe, etc). I also excluded anyone here for an uneventful mid-career cup of coffee (damphousse, nicholls, pitkanen). Too bad I couldn't put in stupid waiver dumps (ray whitney comes to mind)
 
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MXD

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Inspired by a couple of recent threads (most notably the draft busts one) I thought it might be fun to create a team from players that your favorite team has traded away over the years.

To make this a bit more interesting, the player must have had some modicum of team and/or personal success with his new team(s). So if you were doing Boston, you could list Joe Thornton, but not Bobby Orr since he spent more time in Chicago Hospitals than in Chicago Stadium.

Since I'm a Toronto fan, here we go

Goal*
Bernie Parent
Tukka Rask
Ken Wregget

*Gerry Cheevers was a Leaf draft pick, but he was merely released by the team and not traded (at least according to wiki). Otherwise he would've been an easy inclusion. Wregget became a very dependable backup in Pittsburgh, at times supplanting Barrasso.

Defense:

Randy Carlyle-Mathieu Schneider
Jason Smith-Kenny Jonsson
Al Iafrate-Larry Murphy
Luke Richardson

Forwards:

Frank Mahovlich-Vincent Damphousse-Lanny Mcdonald
Dave Andreychuk-Brad Boyes-Fred Modin
Alex Steen-Yanic Perreault-Russ Courtnall
Mike Eastwood-Alyn Mcauley-Shawn Thornton

Stretching it a bit with the forwards. I'm sure I made some glaring omissions.

Enjoy and come up with your own team!

Did the player had to have MORE success with his other team?!?!?!

For whatever reason, I suspect the Rangers will have the most terrific team.
 

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Canes only:
Cory Stillman - Keith Primeau - Jeff O'Neill
Geoff Sanderson - Andrew Cassels - Erik Cole*
Sami Kapanen - Josef Vasicek* - Patrick Eaves
Craig Adams - Kevyn Adams - Byron Ritchie

Jack Johnson - Sandis Ozolinsh
David Tanabe* - Marek Malik
Nolan Pratt - Mike Commodore

JS Giguere
Sean Burke
Manny Legace*

Whalers/Canes:

Cory Stillman - Ron Francis* - Pat Verbeek
Geoff Sanderson - Andrew Cassels - Sami Kapanen
Ray Ferraro - Keith Primeau - Scott Young
Andrei Nikolishin - Bobby Holik - Kevin Dineen
Sylvain Turgeon, Michael Nylander

Mark Howe - Chris Pronger
Ulf Samuelsson - Sylvain Cote
Joe Reekie - Sandis Ozolinsh
Jack Johnson

JS Giguere
Sean Burke
Manny Legace*

* - indicates the player was brought back at some point.
 
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seventieslord

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Did the player had to have MORE success with his other team?!?!?!

For whatever reason, I suspect the Rangers will have the most terrific team.

for players they cast off, and then they had more success somewhere else?

no, the Rangers are the opposite!
 

MXD

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for players they cast off, and then they had more success somewhere else?

no, the Rangers are the opposite!

I don't know, before editing, I said the Hawks (and trying to come up with a team) but realized the Hawks got so many cast-offs, so that they wouldn't be great. But I forgot somebody...

Well, for the Rangers, they start with Chabot, Worsley and Bower in the crease, which isn't half-bad.
 

MXD

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I give it a try for the Hawks


Olmstead - Esposito - Hodge === Basically, a better version of the Nitro Line.
Stasiuk - M. Bentley - MacKenzie
Dumont - Stanfield - Topazzini
Moreau - Prystai - Schmautz
X : Olzyck, Tanti, Cleary

Gadsby - Stanley == Might be stuck playing Crossman because they need offence, but damn, how many shots Hasek would see?!?!?!
Reise - Goldham
Van Impe - Korab
X : Robidas, Crossman

Hasek
Lumley
(One of Meloche or Gerry Desjardins)

I kept out guys like Art Coulter (his career high was in NY, but it's not like Chicago was a a low), Dave Manson (defining years in Chicago, even though he spent only few year in Chi) and Belfour (won the Cup in Dallas, but defining years in Chicago).
 

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I'm probably forgetting some obvious players here for the Rangers, but I'll give it a shot:

Gagner-Ratelle-Middleton
Sandstrom-Ridley-Kovalev
Dahlen-Weight-Amonte
Granato-Savard-Knuble (not a NYR draft pick, but he first became an NHL regular with us)
HM: Marchant, Malhotra, Dominic Moore, Mikael Samuelsson (same as Knuble)

Park-Zubov
Norstrom-Kjell Samuelsson
Kim Jonsson-Tinordi
HM: Ledyard

Bower
Vanbiesbrouck



I figured guys like Ray Sheppard and Mathieu Schneider wouldn't count since they played with the Rangers in the middle of their career and enjoyed success before and after.
 

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Here's one Boston take:

Al Secord.................Phil Esposito............Reggie Leach
Geoff Courtnall..........Joe Thornton...........Phil Kessel
Sergei Samsonov.......Pit Martin................Anson Carter
Mike Krushelnyski.......Rick Macleish...........Mariusz Czerkawski

Carol Vadnais........Ray Bourque
Gilles Marotte........Pat Stapleton
Brad Stuart...........Glen Wesley

Bill Ranford
John Grahame

Off the top of my head, at least eight players won stanley cups elsewhere.

If the list included those drafted away in expansion you could add Parent, Dornhoefer, Lonsberry, Joe Watson etc.
 

cynicism

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This thread needs more Steve Sullivan/Toronto Maple Leafs.

:facepalm:

I knew I forgot something obvious. Glenn Anderson should be in there too since he won a cup with the Rangers when he got traded for 'Stache Gartner . I wasn't sure to include Mair and Adams, but they deserve to be there.

@MXD, it doesn't have to be more successful, just successful :p:
 

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Kovalev-Straka-Jagr
Laukkanen-Kasparaitis
Barrasso

The early part of the 00s was a difficult time for pens fans.

also, recchi three times.
 

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Here's my take for the Oilers:

Smyth - Gretzky - Kurri
Rucinsky - Messier - Czerkawski
Gelinas - Arnott- Guerin
Maltby - Weight - Satan
Cleary Stoll


Coffey - Pronger
Hamrlik - Manson
Beukeboom - McGillis
Greene

Moog
Fuhr
Ranford

I basically excluded anyone whose career took a direct linear path into the ground after they left, which fits many of the post-dynasty ex-Oilers (tikkanen, lowe, etc). I also excluded anyone here for an uneventful mid-career cup of coffee (damphousse, nicholls, pitkanen). Too bad I couldn't put in stupid waiver dumps (ray whitney comes to mind)

I like your team but I wouldn't exclude Tikkanen. He had a fair amount of success outside of Edmonton: Cup in 94 with the Rangers, Finals with Washington in 98, and another deep run with the Rangers in 97 where he was their second leading scorer after Gretzky when they reached the Conference Finals.
 

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Here's one Boston take:

Al Secord.................Phil Esposito............Reggie Leach
Geoff Courtnall..........Joe Thornton...........Phil Kessel
Sergei Samsonov.......Pit Martin................Anson Carter
Mike Krushelnyski.......Rick Macleish...........Mariusz Czerkawski

Carol Vadnais........Ray Bourque
Gilles Marotte........Pat Stapleton
Brad Stuart...........Glen Wesley

Bill Ranford
John Grahame

Off the top of my head, at least eight players won stanley cups elsewhere.

If the list included those drafted away in expansion you could add Parent, Dornhoefer, Lonsberry, Joe Watson etc.

Ken Dryden is hands down the Bruins cast-off goalie with Bernie Parent as the back-up.
 

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Montreal Cast-offs

Tony Esposito as the goalie with Rogie Vachon as the back-up.

D-men.
Carol Vadnais / Chris Chelios
Eric Desjardins / Rod Langway
Slava Fetisov/ Ted Green
Gary Bergman

Center
Ted Kennedy, Ed Litzenberger, Phil Goyette, Pierre Turgeon.

LW
Don Marshall, John Leclair, Danny Grant, Ab McDonald.

RW
Mickey Redmond, Mark Recchi, Claude Lemieux, Murray Balfour.
 

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Penguins:

Naslund - Cullen - Jagr
Kovalev - Lang - Straka
Recchi - x - x


Kasper - Sammuelsson
Whitney - Laukkanen


Barrasso
 

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Since I'm a Toronto fan, here we go

Forwards:

Frank Mahovlich-Vincent Damphousse-Lanny Mcdonald
Dave Andreychuk-Brad Boyes-Fred Modin
Alex Steen-Yanic Perreault-Russ Courtnall
Mike Eastwood-Alyn Mcauley-Shawn Thornton

Stretching it a bit with the forwards. I'm sure I made some glaring omissions.
Doug Jarvis and Rick Kehoe should both be among the Toronto forwards.
 

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frank mahovlich - marcel dionne - john bucyk
roy conacher - adam oates - mike foligno
adam graves - norm ullman - keith primeau
peter mahovlich - don luce - garry unger
sergei fedorov
pit martin
mike knuble

red kelly - marcel pronovost
bill quackenbush - bucko macdonald
steve chiasson - ron stackhouse
brent lebda

glenn hall
terry sawchuk
harry lumley
roger crozier
curtis joseph
 

seventieslord

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frank mahovlich - marcel dionne - john bucyk
roy conacher - adam oates - mike foligno
adam graves - norm ullman - keith primeau
peter mahovlich - don luce - garry unger
sergei fedorov
pit martin
mike knuble

red kelly - marcel pronovost
bill quackenbush - bucko macdonald
steve chiasson - ron stackhouse
brent lebda

glenn hall
terry sawchuk
harry lumley
roger crozier
curtis joseph

this is really nitpicky but... Randy Manery would make a much better #7 there. Ron Harris too.
 
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