Former Canucks Thread 2023-24 Off-Season Edition

[MS]

Dale Tallon & Jerry Korab should get an honorable mention had the team not eff'd up Tallons development & kept Korab. Korab was an underrated blue liner that was able to function pretty well in the midst of the Bad Bruins & Nasty Flyers in the early to mid 70s. Things that might've been........


Edit: stupid me ..they got Korab as part of the package when they dealt Tallon.

Bob Dailey and Korab were on the team at the same time and both inexplicably dealt away. The team should have had the two biggest defenders in the NHL in the back half of the 1970s and instead they were the 1Ds for Philly and Buffalo who were two of the best teams in the NHL. Whoops.

 

[Ernie]

I'm not sure I'm ready to put him in that category yet.

Canucks have had a star on the backend; unfortunately it was at the tail end of his career (Paul Reinhardt).

Salo and Ohlund were first pair defencemen just like Hronek is.

Paul Reinhardt was not on a Sedin / Bure / Hughes level. Nobody is voting him into the Hall of Fame.

 

[Hit the post]

Salo and Ohlund were first pair defencemen just like Hronek is.

Paul Reinhardt was not on a Sedin / Bure / Hughes level. Nobody is voting him into the Hall of Fame.

Unfortunately his career was cut short because of injuries. He was a star player (imho).

 

[MS]

Salo and Ohlund were first pair defencemen just like Hronek is.

Paul Reinhardt was not on a Sedin / Bure / Hughes level. Nobody is voting him into the Hall of Fame.

Unfortunately his career was cut short because of injuries. He was a star player (imho).

Paul Reinhart is this weird Mandela Effect thing for Canuck fans.

Absolutely he was an elite PP QB as a Canuck, the first one the team ever had. But at ES he was used as a sheltered #4-5 defender and Garth Butcher put up more ES points than him one year.

Ask any Canuck fans who the 1D was on the 1989 Canucks, though, and they'll say Reinhart in spite of the fact that Doug Lidster was the runaway 1D on those late 80s Canuck teams.

 

[Hit the post]

Differences attributable to eras and Aucoin aside, Salo's 9 PP goals in 59 games in 05-06 is the best PP goal scoring rate and PP goals in a season by Canucks defensemen since 1990? I believe Lanz earlier held the record for most PP goals by a Canucks defenseman until Aucoin broke it.

Salo is also the Canucks' all-time leader in PP goals among defensemen. If Hughes averages 4 PP goals a season over the next 10 seasons he can break it by the time he retires (he needs 38 to tie). Anything less and Salo likely keeps the record.

A shame I think injuries shortened his career (knee?). One of the few "hits" from our Canadian amateur scouts. Lanz even served a useful role as on ice interpretor for Bubla & Hlinka.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Bob Dailey and Korab were on the team at the same time and both inexplicably dealt away. The team should have had the two biggest defenders in the NHL in the back half of the 1970s and instead they were the 1Ds for Philly and Buffalo who were two of the best teams in the NHL. Whoops.

wow TIL that we briefly had korab.

the 1975 sabres went to the finals with former canucks korab and jocelyn guevremont in their top four. meanwhile we had john gould, tracy pratt, mike robitaille, and bob murray (not the same bob murray who played 1,000 games for the blackhawks and later became a GM). benningeque.

Paul Reinhart is this weird Mandela Effect thing for Canuck fans.

Absolutely he was an elite PP QB as a Canuck, the first one the team ever had. But at ES he was used as a sheltered #4-5 defender and Garth Butcher put up more ES points than him one year.

Ask any Canuck fans who the 1D was on the 1989 Canucks, though, and they'll say Reinhart in spite of the fact that Doug Lidster was the runaway 1D on those late 80s Canuck teams.

back when we were in lockdown in 2020, i spent a couple sleepless nights watching games from the 1989 first round. iirc it felt like the 2011 D (in deployment, not ability). reinhart and nordmark maybe should have been specialists, but played regular minutes, the same as lidster and butcher. i don’t recall anyone standing out as getting workhorse minutes, but lidster i guess would have been the happy medium between defensive and offensive guy.

as for how reinhart looked on the ice, he had his moments where you could see the control the play guy he probably was in calgary in the mid-80s, but he didn’t particularly jump out at you as a plus or minus most of the time. he just kind of ate average minutes out there at ES. he did look less spectacular on the PP than i expected though.

 

[HairyKneel]

Paul Reinhart is this weird Mandela Effect thing for Canuck fans.

Absolutely he was an elite PP QB as a Canuck, the first one the team ever had. But at ES he was used as a sheltered #4-5 defender and Garth Butcher put up more ES points than him one year.

Ask any Canuck fans who the 1D was on the 1989 Canucks, though, and they'll say Reinhart in spite of the fact that Doug Lidster was the runaway 1D on those late 80s Canuck teams.

His back was absolutely murdered when he got here. Reinhart had HHOF talent if his career didn't get mangled. Cliff Fletcher gifted him to the Canucks along with Steve Bozek for a 3rd round pick

 

[MS]

His back was absolutely murdered when he got here. Reinhart had HHOF talent if his career didn't get mangled. Cliff Fletcher gifted him to the Canucks along with Steve Bozek for a 3rd round pick

Oh, of course.

I’ve said on the HOH board here before that Reinhart was probably a better player than Larry Murphy but it’s an example of what happens when you have exceptional durability vs. crippling injuries.