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.