Best Waiver Claims?

[Chainshot]

Martin St. Louis, Whitney, Markstrom, Pominville, Hoffman, Kunitz, Jokinen, Lang, Briere, among a few others already mentioned.

Pominville and Briere were on waivers but not claimed.

 

[Dread Clawz]

The Panthers have two of the best ever with Whitney and Forsling.

 

[Oddbob]

Believe NYI claimed Nabokov and be gave them a couple decent seasons.

He wasn't a traditional waiver claim. The Wings signed him from overseas and the rules stated he had to be put on waivers first, which is the only reason he was waived.

 

[Cup or Bust]

Ray Whitney comes to mind mostly because I was extremely pissed at the Oilers for putting him on waivers in the first place.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

The answer must be Kyle Quincey because after being waived by Detroit, three seasons later they gave up a 1st round pick to get him back.

(Yes, I am apparently still bitter).


Sidenote: Tampa used that pick to draft Vasilevsky.

 

[ScottyMascotty]

 

[lawrence]

Ray Whitney,
Grabber, Sullivan out of the top of my head.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Oilers gave away Ray Whitney for a waiver fee to the Florida Panthers.

Robert Lang as well.

 

[carjackmalone]

Chicago picked up Tony Esposito on waivers

 

[HabsQC]

Someone should do a waivers all time team

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

IIRC both guys were also very well liked by their team mates.


I had no idea he was a waiver pickup. Incredible player.

My favorite hockey karma moment:

 

[Moose Head]

Pominville and Briere were on waivers but not claimed.

I remember wanting the habs to make a claim on Briere and Houle saying the habs already had enough small guys. He was correct, they were small, but damn, Briere was a better small guy. He didn’t put in a claim on Briere so he could keep giving prime ice time to the legend, Oleg Petrov :sigh:

 

[karltonian]

He scored the vast majority of his career points in his 30s. Such an odd career. He was also leading the league in scoring for a while when he was with the Caps.

He was looking good at 39 years of age as well, but then he got his Achilles sliced.

That's what happens when you play with Jagr, Lemieux, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom etc.

 

[JianYang]

That's what happens when you play with Jagr, Lemieux, Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Lidstrom etc.

It helps but he could really stand on his own too.

He scored something like 39 points in 50 games as a 38/39 year old primarily playing with the kostitsyn brothers in the middle 6.

He's one of the guys that will always come up in a late bloomer thread.

 

[Chili]

Chicago picked up Tony Esposito on waivers

The old Intra League draft that was similar to waivers. There are other interesting names that were picked like Gerry Cheevers, Rene Robert, Vic Hadfield, Carol Vadnais...

NHL intra-league draft - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[JuJu Mobb]

Yvon Lambert

Yvon Lambert Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Yvon Lambert, a hockey player from Drummondville, PQ born May 20 1950 who was active from 1968 to 1984.

www.hockeydb.com

• 1971-Jun-09 Claimed off waivers by Montreal Canadiens from Detroit Red Wings
• 1981-Oct-05 Claimed off waivers by Buffalo Sabres from Montreal Canadiens

 

[karltonian]

It helps but he could really stand on his own too.

He scored something like 39 points in 50 games as a 38/39 year old primarily playing with the kostitsyn brothers in the middle 6.

He's one of the guys that will always come up in a late bloomer thread.

He was a good player in his own right, for sure

 

[mr figgles]

Bryzgalov was so good he’s still collecting paychecks to this day.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Bruins signed Tim Thomas off waivers

 

[Warh1ppy]

Kunitz
Bryzgalov
Forsling
Gelinas
WHITNEY!!!!

There's someone every couple of years that turns in to some kind of an unreal gem for the team that grabs them.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Lol redemption for Forsling hoisting the cup after he gets put on waivers years before.

 

[Bender]

Thomas Hickey

Hey look everyone, it's Thomas Hickey IRL

 

[Ford Prefect]

Martin St. Louis, Whitney, Markstrom, Pominville, Hoffman, Kunitz, Jokinen, Lang, Briere, among a few others already mentioned.

I though St. Louis was a UDFA?

Edit: NM. Didn't know he played with Calgary first/