Devils discussion (news, notes and speculation) - part III

[Nubmer6]

Good choice.

I've often times cited him as possibly the worst Devils player that spent an entire season on the roster.

Somehow he played another, what was it, 4 or 5 years after this? Between NHL and AHL Islanders?

I dunno about worst player, but my most hated was Lyle Odelein/Slowdelein/Blowdelein/CantHoldDelein

 

[My3Sons]

Love the Herb Brooks reference. I always get goosebumps thinking about that team.

 

[BostonDevil]

GET. IT. DONE. NOW!!!

 

[CalamityX23]

Funny or not funny is that I understand the hoopla for Quinn n the united front of Hughes but that doesn't answer our C n F issues lol

 

[Bleedred]

I dunno about worst player, but my most hated was Lyle Odelein/Slowdelein/Blowdelein/CantHoldDelein

Yeah, I couldn’t stand him either. Definitely one my most hated, along with Steve Thomas.

And to the surprise of no one, Sean Burke, who was trash after the 1988 playoffs. Blackwood for honorable mention.

I actually didn’t like a lot of the “New guard veterans” guys who were brought in after the 95 cup and were gone before the 2000 cup.

Thomas, Odelein, I didn’t much care for Andreychuk as a Devil. I wasn’t crazy about Gilmour by the time he got to the Devils either. And Phil Housley was a complete and utter bust, but he only lasted from roughly the 96 trade deadline to the end of that season. And the 9 games of Esa Tikkanen was one of the most rando WTF stints in the history of hockey.

I was pretty young at that time and I remember buying into the narrative these guys weren’t really good enough to be winners. A lot of them were older and over the hill already, and most of them never even won a cup before that. Gilmour did.

It felt like Andreychuk was already 40 when he got here, but he wound up playing into the mid 2000s and even won the cup near the very end.

I was salty for the longest time over Claude Lemieux for Steve Thomas.

I loved eliminating washed up Steve Thomas from the playoffs 3 times in the last I think 4 or 5 years of his career. Including the 2003 cup finals.

 

[Billdo]

It's difficult to decide between Peters and Boulton.