Most overrated player on your favourite team - past or present

[Dirby Kach]

Who is the most overrated player on your team past or present?

For Montreal, I vote Arber Xhekaj. I’ve never seen a more overrated player in my 30 years of watching this team. Yeah , he’s tough, but he’s not good at hockey.
If he didn’t have a cool name, work at Costco and beat guys heads in occasionally, nobody would even care.

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[Soundgarden]

Has to be Peter Forsberg for Nashville, someone made a poll this summer arguing the ten best Preds and included him over many better Nashville players.

 

[TheDoldrums]

Actually no Toronto Maple Leaf has ever been overrated, everyone kind of flies under the radar

 

[Ratbath]

Struggling to find an overrated Dallas Star. The great ones are all pretty much accurate if not underrated. I feel like it’s probably one of the late firsts that became nothing like Julius Honka who briefly was thought to be an nhl player or Campbell who was a failed first in a different way.

I’ll say Neil Broten just to razz Minnesota fans.

 

[MXD]

Craig Rivet, big time. Should not have played over the 3rd pair on a regular basis. Gets a pass, somehow, while the much better Patrice Brisebois (also overplayed, but really by just a pairing instead of two) was, and is still, much maligned.

 

[MoreMogilny]

I felt like Simon Benoit got overrated for the Leafs quite a bit last year.

Maybe Woll right now with how some people think he’s the future in net when he can’t even move laterally in his crease without injuring himself?

 

[Goose]

Leafs/Phaneuf.

Unless you were the boards behind/beside the net, then he was the most dangerous man in the league.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Kaapo Kakko

 

[brentashton]

Actually no Toronto Maple Leaf has ever been overrated, everyone kind of flies under the radar

I have huge respect for this.

 

[brentashton]

DRW- Yzerman as the useless GM
Edmonton - Darnell

 

[Laus723]

“I wanna bitch about Jackeye,” makes a thread on the mains.

I think Huby was overrated and wanted him moved for Tkachuk, then Zito did it.

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Pierre Larouche for the Pens. Jean Pronovost was the best pre-Mario Pen not Larouche.

 

[DarrylshutzSydor]

Ron Flockhart - Flyers, Blues, etc, etc.....

 

[Bouboumaster]

Easily Kirby Dach imo

I think he's a good player, but some of us saw him dislodging Suzuki as the first line center one day - ain't happening never

Like, IMO, he ain't even the second best center on that team, I think that Newhook would be it

If one day we get 60+ points out of Dach, I'll be happy

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Anaheim
Cam Fowler AINEC

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Easily Kirby Dach imo

I think he's a good player, but some of us saw him dislodging Suzuki as the first line center one day - ain't happening never

Like, IMO, he ain't even the second best center on that team, I think that Newhook would be it

If one day we get 60+ points out of Dach, I'll be happy

Agreed

 

[brentashton]

Struggling to find an overrated Dallas Star. The great ones are all pretty much accurate if not underrated. I feel like it’s probably one of the late firsts that became nothing like Julius Honka who briefly was thought to be an nhl player or Campbell who was a failed first in a different way.

I’ll say Neil Broten just to razz Minnesota fans.

Anyone who beat those f***ing Red Russians in 1980 will never be overrated in my books.

 

[bov]

Leafs/Phaneuf.

Unless you were the boards behind/beside the net, then he was the most dangerous man in the league.

Phaneuf got more shit than anybody, people treated him like garbage.

 

[Smelling Salt]

Struggling to find an overrated Dallas Star. The great ones are all pretty much accurate if not underrated. I feel like it’s probably one of the late firsts that became nothing like Julius Honka who briefly was thought to be an nhl player or Campbell who was a failed first in a different way.

I’ll say Neil Broten just to razz Minnesota fans.

For me it was Jason Arnott. PLD is a good comparable

 

[nbwingsfan]

I felt like Simon Benoit got overrated for the Leafs quite a bit last year.

Maybe Woll right now with how some people think he’s the future in net when he can’t even move laterally in his crease without injuring himself?

A leafs fan was arguing that Woll is better than Swayman a couple weeks back… so I’d agree with you there.

For the Wings it was probably Kronwall. He was never very good defensively.