For a team that is 55 years old soon, is there a worse list of defenseman?

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Nah, we hear constantly how the NHL would be better off without the American teams and they're just a drag on the great Canadian sport. This is slander that is necessary and refreshing.

Oh I didn’t say I disapproved, just that it went deep there. Like a quick “your brother’s accomplishments will always outshine yours” if you’re talkin to B. Tkachuk or something.

 

[PaulD]

I understand you may not watch the Canucks, and just watch stat sheets instead, but Vancouver has had plenty of good defencemen in their time.

yea.....but not really.
Robinson
Chelios
Markov
Lapoint
Savard
Languay
Weber
Subban
Schnieder
Svoboda
Deshardins
Souray
Green
Ludwig
Brisbois
Hamerlk
Engblom


That is a "plenty of good defense men" list.

 

[potatowejj]

When you think about it, the Canucks haven't really had/developed a lot of top-end/HOF-level talent in general for a team that's been around this long.

Bure
Sedins
Luongo to a degree
Hughes on track eventually

That's about it. The 70s and 80s were almost totally devoid of it. The West Coast Express was a dominant line but only really did so for a couple of years and I wouldn't say any of the individual players were HOF-level.

 

[TheNumber4]

How is this a surprise? The Nucks have always been at best, pretty good. True greatness never gets near that franchise. Except for that one time Messier became the greatest Captain in Nucks history.

 

[Elvs]

Two defensemen from my hometown are on that list.

OP almost literally came to burn down my village.

 

[benfranklin]

When you think about it, the Canucks haven't really had/developed a lot of top-end/HOF-level talent in general for a team that's been around this long.

Bure
Sedins
Luongo to a degree
Hughes on track eventually

That's about it. The 70s and 80s were almost totally devoid of it. The West Coast Express was a dominant line but only really did so for a couple of years and I wouldn't say any of the individual players were HOF-level.

Even not homegrown talent is weak. I never thought of Vancouver as a place players dont want to play.

How do they not have a journeyman who made his marbles elsewhere come through for a few seasons or end his career there?

 

[Brookbank]

Holy crap, I understand the obsession with Hughes finally. This is why he is treated like the coming of Christ.

How can a team 50+ years old not have one really good defenseman?!?!

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This is a really really , really dumb post. The Canucks never had a Norris level defensman but they always had high end journeyman defensman. Through multiple eras

One of the best things Nonis did was corner the market on 3.5 million dollar defensman

Nonis Burke era:
Ohlund, Jovanovski, Salo, Malik, Sopel

Gillis era:
Edler , Hamhuis, Beiksa, Tanev, Erhoff , Garrison.

Close dumb thread

 

[Voight]

How is this a surprise? The Nucks have always been at best, pretty good. True greatness never gets near that franchise. Except for that one time Messier became the greatest Captain in Nucks history.

I mean they've made the finals three times and made it to game 7 twice, so true greatness was indeed very close to them twice.

 

[benfranklin]

This is a really really , really dumb post. The Canucks never had a Norris level defensman but they always had high end journeyman defensman. Through multiple eras

One of the best things Nonis did was corner the market on 3.5 million dollar defensman

Nonis Burke era:
Ohlund, Jovanovski, Salo, Malik, Sopel

Gillis era:
Edler , Hamhuis, Beiksa, Tanev, Erhoff , Garrison.

Close dumb thread

Majority of posters here would have to google those guys, and could easily argue those are bottom tier 1st pairing guys, let alone 1st pairing guys at all, and a reach for a true 1A.

55 years!!!!!

Find me teams who are even 30+ that have a similarity ugly list. Leafs, laughingly so, arent far behind, but Tim Horton propels them up pretty far.