Best players to just not get the shot in the NHL

[DangeRouss]

Stephane Da Costa, one of the most skilled player in the KHL since years

 

[archangel2]

So, I was doing a dive on a goalie. Brandon Maxwell who is working with a cognitive company. He looks like it was working, but he had lost his job in DEL and was playing in DEL2. I thought, if things are going well, how did he get demoted.

He lost his job to Kristers Gudlevskis. I looked at his stats and could understand why. Kristers has fantastic numbers. I looked back at his previous stats and found his NHL career although extremely short was kind of nuts.

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This guy has no losses and GAA and SV that are crazy.

Are there any other guys out there with under say 10-20 games that look like they should have played?

He has fantastic numbers until you take a closer look and realize he was rarely a number 1 goalie and his save % in the AHL was about average.

Also he played 3 games in the nhl and only won 1 game

 

[Holkoun]

Valerij Charlamov AINEC

 

[carjackmalone]

Dan Hodgson

 

[Stephen]

Mika Nieminen. His skills with the puck was incredible. His speed of thinking the game was made for the NHL.

Kimmo Rintanen was one of the best stickhandlers ever in Finnish hockey. There was rumours of a PTO with the Rangers towards the end of his career that he didn't accept.

Toni Rajala got a shot, but he matured and got so much better when it comes to puck control and drawing attention from the opposition.

It was only a matter of time before the CPU generated Mikko Rantanen out of all that talent.

 

[Crocket]

Lonny Bohonos. Elite skill

 

[carjackmalone]

Dale Derkach
Doru Toreanu
Erick Kuhnhackl
The Slovenian Hiti Brothers

 

[Frank Drebin]

If you can’t cut it in lesser leagues impressive stats over a short period of time in the nhl is likely just a fluke

kind of like the zamboni driver

 

[Lambo]

Esa Keskinen

 

[Crazy Cizikas]

Mark Van Guilder played one game for Nashville in 2014, as a thank you from the organization.

He was 30 for that game. He could have played with an expansion team.

I like that. Hope he had fun and relishes the moment.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

Jeremy Bracco

 

[Gerulaitis]

Someone mentioned Kharlamov.
We can add Tretiak, Mikhailov Vasiliev and the rest of the Soviets.

There must be some pretty good Swedes, Czechoslovaks, and Finns who haven't played a single game in the NHL. Rundqvist? Johansson? Kihlstrom? Jarvenpaa? Arbelius? Valek? Stavjana?

 

[markymarc1215]

Jan Marek would be a sneaky choice here

 

[LuckyPierre]

Stephane Da Costa, one of the most skilled player in the KHL since years

During his stint with the Senators, he and Erik Karlsson together were able to create lanes and passing plays that were beyond their on ice teammates. He had some highlight worthy plays, and there is an undercurrent of Senators fans who still wonder what if.

The pre-season trolley tracks hit on Da Costa by Phaneuf, which was replayed over and over again by TSN, made him look like he didn't belong. He wasn't a physical centre by any means, and early on, and had to learn how to become dependable on the breakout. He was also culturally an outlier as a Frenchman who would allegedly ride his bicycle to games in Kanata. A Bryan Murray type he was not. But the skill was there. Kyle Turris being the soft, skilled top 6 centre for Ottawa during that time, however, made him redundant.

 

[Deadpool8812]

Mark Van Guilder played one game for Nashville in 2014, as a thank you from the organization.

He was 30 for that game. He could have played with an expansion team.

What was that thank you for?