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Favorite Islander D-Man Not Named Potvin.

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tag0519

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As the title says - who are yours?

I always liked Langevin, Morrow and Lane. Those three were the epitome of "Shutdown". They were "lay you on your butt" d-men. I also liked Tomas Jonsson.
 
Favorites, not necessarily the best....

Adrian Aucoin - the guy was as solid as they come and would play upwards of 30 minutes a night without wearing down

Radek Martinek - despite the way he's played recently, he's still a good Islander and a soldier for them through some bad years

Kenny Jonsson - very underrated d-man, would have been a star on any other team.
 
Kenny Jonsson.
One if my all time favorite isles. A terrific player and so loyal he signed for below market while in his prime, so he could fit into the budget.
I was very disappointed when he retired from the nhl and went home to Europe.
 
I was a big Tomas Jonsson fan, so he was probably my second favorite. Though I think the best Dman after Potvin was probably Kenny Jonsson. Stefan Persson was wildly underrated. Also was a HUGE Bryan Berard fan, I really thought he was gonna be a great defenseman. Of course Milbury ****ed that one up as well.
 
Rich Pilon is my pick. To the op I like your picks but I always thought of Gord lane as a pretend tough guy and not very good to be honest. I think he was a product of the system and all the greats around him. Just one mans opinion on him
 
I always liked Pilon when he played but Uwe Krupp was pretty damn good in his short time here. Same goes for Mathieu Schneider but almost all of his career was not as an Islander.

Going back to the dynasty years have to go with Langevin. Exactly what this team needs right now.
 
BigWorm said:
I always liked Pilon when he played but Uwe Krupp was pretty damn good in his short time here. Same goes for Mathieu Schneider but almost all of his career was not as an Islander.

Going back to the dynasty years have to go with Langevin. Exactly what this team needs right now.
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If my memory serves me correct. Uwe Krupp scored a late or overtime goal like the last game of the year against Pittsburgh vaulting the isles into the 6th pick in the draft instead of the 5 the pick that year.
The 5 th pick Jagr, the 6 th pick Scott Scissons. Then we traded for Krupp a year later. He was in the Lafontaine trade.So because we got Scott Scissons I could never like uwe Krupp. I would like to believe we would not have taken ss if Jagr was on the board.
 
Kasparaitis was the most fun to watch. He was a rookie, didn't need no codling, no AHL time, no healthy scratches. He just came over here from russie and was kicking AZZ and not taking names...the bigger the player the more fun he had pissing him off. If kaspairatis was going to get beat up for those hip checks, he had the type of personality where you would think he almost got off on getting punched a few times. Pilon also I loved, Aucoin too. All different players, even Malakhov was fun to watch.
 
Michael McEwen. Without Q we don't win that OT game against Pittsburgh in 82. It's McEwen, Tonelli, Nystrom and Billy Smith that win that game not Trottier or Bossy. If you have the Isles greatest game collection watch the 3rd period and OT for the most thrilling comeback that I've ever seen in Hockey.

Makes me sick to see Andrew MacDonald on the point of a power play when during the cup years we had Denis, McEwen and Persson and for one of the years Tomas Jonsson. Still think that Q would have made a difference if he hadn't been traded and was out there instead of Gordie Dineen and Paul Boutillier when we lost to Edmonton.
 
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