I miss the Amex line.David booth, was average before the knee injury and just couldn’t get back in form after.
Also a very weird dude
I remember that game (Canucks got blown out 7-1). I think it would have been Corson. Let's actually check...Was it Keane or Corson that Bob Mason fought?
Didn't Corson go after Jovocop off the ice in a postal rage? I forgot the story behind that.I remember that game (Canucks got blown out 7-1). I think it would have been Corson. Let's actually check...
Both Keane and Corson (along with everyone else) fought in that game, but neither right at the end, which is how I remembered it...
Bump lol. Just randomly remembered Derek Roy was briefly a Canuck.
I had a coworker a couple years ago who grew up with Derek Roy in Ontario and played hockey with him as a kid.
Apparently Roy's dad was a super-aggro stereotypical idiot hockey dad who would yell and scream at him in front of the other kids after games, berate the refs consistently, and so on. This guy felt like Roy actually hated playing hockey but just did it for his dad's approval and because he couldn't really quit.
Might explain why Roy basically flamed out at age 28 and had 'partying' rumours following him around for most of his career.
On that topic, I always associate Garry Valk and Robert Kron (CC @RobertKron). Different type of players, but they were both rookies on the 1990-91 Canucks, which is the season I first started following the team.with all this talk recently of kiefer sherwood and wildly entertaining bottom six guys of the past, i have been thinking about young garry valk
gritty, fast, killed penalties
i remember he beat bure in a straight line race during the skills competition one year
those early 90s teams were just so deep there was no room for him
On that topic, I always associate Garry Valk and Robert Kron (CC @RobertKron). Different type of players, but they were both rookies on the 1990-91 Canucks, which is the season I first started following the team.
I always felt Kron had untapped potential -- there was something in his style of skating/puckhandling that looked like he was more skilled than the average guy. He did end up putting up a couple of 50-point seasons, which always made me nod my head approvingly like Mr. Miyagi.
On that topic, I always associate Garry Valk and Robert Kron (CC @RobertKron). Different type of players, but they were both rookies on the 1990-91 Canucks, which is the season I first started following the team.
I always felt Kron had untapped potential -- there was something in his style of skating/puckhandling that looked like he was more skilled than the average guy. He did end up putting up a couple of 50-point seasons, which always made me nod my head approvingly like Mr. Miyagi.
derek roy's brother lives/lived here and iirc got banned from ubc's beer league because he kept starting fights and calling people gay slursI had a coworker a couple years ago who grew up with Derek Roy in Ontario and played hockey with him as a kid.
Apparently Roy's dad was a super-aggro stereotypical idiot hockey dad who would yell and scream at him in front of the other kids after games, berate the refs consistently, and so on. This guy felt like Roy actually hated playing hockey but just did it for his dad's approval and because he couldn't really quit.
Might explain why Roy basically flamed out at age 28 and had 'partying' rumours following him around for most of his career.