David Vyborny is currently the most loyal player in the CBJ history

[Indy18]

He got robbed for the quarter century team. I know its just a gimmick but he deserved a mention for 2nd team

 

[EDM]

DV was and is my favorite Jacket of all time. Add in Jeff Sanderson, Espen Knutson and Steve Heinze and you have all of them.

 

[Viqsi]

We could use a "ring of honor" type of thing for the club to hold pre-game celebrations for long-retired players like Vyborny.

I can't think of much that we do other than jersey retirement, which many folks hold impossibly high standards for (that results in them speaking negatively of 99% of the athletes as well as the team). So something like a ring of honor would be more positive and just good vibes.

I'd start engraving names on cannonballs next to the cannon.

 

[NotWendell]

I'd start engraving names on cannonballs next to the cannon.

I think the ring of honor idea would be a perfect way to use the space where LET'S GO JACKETS is!

 

[NotWendell]

So Knutsen, Lasse Pirjeta, who else??

Klesla

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

and to play with wood sticks!

I have one of his wooden sticks too.

 

[DougKnowsBest]

David Vyborny's consecutive 40 assist seasons are the CBJ's most impressive change my mind

 

[stevo61]

David Vyborny's consecutive 40 assist seasons are the CBJ's most impressive change my mind

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Ray Whitney started his 40 assist streak where after himself the next 2 highest goal scorers were Mike Sillinger (20) and Grant Marshall (15)

 

[CBJx614]

 

[hockey17jp]

Ray Whitney started his 40 assist streak where after himself the next 2 highest goal scorers were Mike Sillinger (20) and Grant Marshall (15)

John McConnell refusing to pay him what he wanted after a 76 point season is one of the bigger whiffs in early CBJ history

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Congrats to Vybs. When thinking about the first era of the blue jackets and some of the underrated players in franchise history, he’s right up there if not the first name I would think of.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Congrats to Vybs. When thinking about the first era of the blue jackets and some of the underrated players in franchise history, he’s right up there if not the first name I would think of.

I don't think he's underrated here or among fans in general.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

I don't think he's underrated here or among fans in general.

Underrated in the sense that when talking about “best players in franchise history” he’s not one of the first names that come to mind. People will say Nash, Bobrovsky, Werenski, even Panarin. When Vyborny is brought up, I usually get a “oh yeah. He was good” type reaction.

Maybe it’s just me with my friends though. We were all in grade school when he was here.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Underrated in the sense that when talking about “best players in franchise history” he’s not one of the first names that come to mind. People will say Nash, Bobrovsky, Werenski, even Panarin. When Vyborny is brought up, I usually get a “oh yeah. He was good” type reaction.

Maybe it’s just me with my friends though. We were all in grade school when he was here.

Yeah I get that. Recency bias is for sure a thing. Especially when it's supported by age.

I will add, there is probably a little bit of an assumption on the part of the fan base that a lot of our early players, especially some of the Euros, that they were only on an NHL team because it was an expansion team. As much as we love Vybes, he's probably not in other markets' fans frame of reference.

That out of the way, I will say that, if we're ranking players using a combination of factors like how good a player they are/were, how well they played while they were in Columbus and if they were impactful just in the history of the franchise, Vybes is probably a top 8-15 player in CBJ history. That might not seem much but it's not nothing.