Name a random Canuck

[HairyKneel]

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Tom Fergus. Acquired mid-season and formed part of an excellent secondary offensive line with Petr Nedved and Jim Sandlak, IIRC.

Fell off from there, but was great in that half season with the team.

That name is a sore spot for me. Protecting him in the 92 waiver draft over Igor who was in Switzerland for a season as an FU to the Russian Federation was a colossal mistake. I'm a big Pat Quinn guy but he screwed that situation up. San Jose snapped him up and he played another decade and won multiple cups. Throw Igor on the 94 team and get a different ref than Terry Gregson in Game 7 and we have a parade down East Hastings past the Astoria, The Pat and Pigeon Park.

 

[DekeyPete]

The other fedorov. Who kicked his ass again?


Also libor polasek ?sp?

 

[Tim Calhoun]

Not random player per se but Nedved and Naslund actually crossed paths and were teammates.

Bure and Luongo is another “former Canucks who were teammates on other teams”. Any other prominent ones?

 

[F A N]

Bure and Luongo is another “former Canucks who were teammates on other teams”. Any other prominent ones?

Panthers have a long history of having former Canucks. Sometimes through trade.

Like the 98-99 Panthers, not counting the Bure for Jovo swap of players, Ryan Johnson, Sean Burke, Kirk McLean, Mike Wilson, and random Canuck Herbert Vasiljevs were on that team.

Tehnically, Ohlund and Salo were on the same team after leaving the Canucks.

Sometimes players leave together and join the same team (e.g. Tanev and Markstrom)

 

[Jyrki21]

Bure and Luongo is another “former Canucks who were teammates on other teams”. Any other prominent ones?

The 1998-99 Phoenix Coyotes had some highlights from the 1994 roster: Lumme, Diduck, Adams, Ronning -- plus recent ex-Canucks Brian Noonan and Jamie Huscroft. (As well as future Canucks Letowski, Isbister and Carney).

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Original 1970 Vancouver Canucks Ed Hatoum, the first player born in Lebanon to play in the NHL.

When we hosted a Canucks Alumni game back in 2018, he was the only original Canucks - and the oldest player in the group - to come along for the ride. One of our players accidentally collided with him along the boards, sending him crashing to the ice, and nearly had to fight John Craighead as a result.

Craighead - "THE f*** ARE YOU DOING?! THAT'S OUR OLDEST GUY!"
Our Guy - "Holy shit, it was an accident, I swear! And I'm our team's oldest guy!"

EDIT: Found the picture. Poor Ed.

 

[MS]

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Justin Kurtz. A veteran with the Manitoba Moose in the AHL when they entered into an affiliate agreement with the Canucks, the Canucks ended up giving him a contract and he got into 27 games. He scored a few goals early in his stint and played surprisingly well, but tapered off after a few games, went back to the minors and never returned. This was in 2001/2002.

Kurtz and Mark Wotton were basically the same story - smallish defenders who were probably NHL-calibre players by today's standards but during the DPE teams still insisted on playing vastly inferior tough guy defenders like Jamie Huscroft or the godawful Jason Strudwick.

Kurtz was really good during his stint. I remember it well.

Off the top of my head he was acquired from the Panthers and the Canucks made a ton of minor deals that deadline?

They acquired Jesse Belanger, Markus Naslund, and Mike Sillinger all on the same 1996 trade deadline.

I was actually most excited about Belanger. Whoops. I was also shocked when they didn't give him a QO that summer.

 

[Tim Calhoun]

The 1998-99 Phoenix Coyotes had some highlights from the 1994 roster: Lumme, Diduck, Adams, Ronning -- plus recent ex-Canucks Brian Noonan and Jamie Huscroft. (As well as future Canucks Letowski, Isbister and Carney).

This is a good Yotes roster as well:

Phoenix Coyotes 2009-10 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 2009-10 Phoenix Coyotes playing in the NHL.

www.hockeydb.com

Vrbata, Aucoin, Jovo, Pyatt, Labarbera, Joel Perrault, and Mathieu Schneider. If you dive deep you get Shaun Heshka and Jim Vandermeer as system guys. Plus Upshall if you include camp invites! Sean Burke as goalie coach!

 

[MS]

This is a good Yotes roster as well:

Phoenix Coyotes 2009-10 roster and scoring statistics at hockeydb.com

The roster, scoring and goaltender statistics for the 2009-10 Phoenix Coyotes playing in the NHL.

www.hockeydb.com

Vrbata, Aucoin, Jovo, Pyatt, Labarbera, Joel Perrault, and Mathieu Schneider. If you dive deep you get Shaun Heshka and Jim Vandermeer as system guys. Plus Upshall if you include camp invites! Sean Burke as goalie coach!

Somehow I have literally no memory of Joel Perrault on the Canucks despite the fact that it was the 10-11 season which is one of the more famous/memorable in Canuck history. If you would have asked me 15 minutes ago if Joel Perreault was a Canuck, I would have said no, and I can name basically the entire rosters of Canuck teams from before I was born.

And it isn't like I wasn't paying attention because I remember the efforts of Desbiens/Schaefer/Sweatt/Volpatti etc. from that same season very well in their limited stints. Weird.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Randy Gregg. A five time Stanley Cup champion who finished his career in Vancouver - one of the more fascinating careers out there. Had a medical degree, retired multiple times to pursue his medical education and Olympic hockey, and retired for good in 91-92 and became a family physician.

 

[HairyKneel]

Jason Strudwick played 674 NHL games. Justin Squirts played 27. Struds was a much better player in that era. Not even close.

Rob Davisan

 

[RobertKron]

Kurtz and Mark Wotton were basically the same story - smallish defenders who were probably NHL-calibre players by today's standards but during the DPE teams still insisted on playing vastly inferior tough guy defenders like Jamie Huscroft or the godawful Jason Strudwick.

Kurtz was really good during his stint. I remember it well.

I thought Kurtz would be an NHLer at the time. I can't remember what happened with him, but he kind of faded - I remember thinking he was probably bailing a year or two too early to go to Europe, which contrasts with Wotton who just never left.

Somehow I have literally no memory of Joel Perrault on the Canucks despite the fact that it was the 10-11 season which is one of the more famous/memorable in Canuck history. If you would have asked me 15 minutes ago if Joel Perreault was a Canuck, I would have said no, and I can name basically the entire rosters of Canuck teams from before I was born.

And it isn't like I wasn't paying attention because I remember the efforts of Desbiens/Schaefer/Sweatt/Volpatti etc. from that same season very well in their limited stints. Weird.

IIRC, he started the year with the Moose and then got hurt? They traded him while he was hurt and he ended up not playing the rest of the season or something like that.

Edit: also, this is the only thread on here that matters at all.

 

[RobertKron]

Can we think of a player with a faster descent into total obscurity than Patrick Coulombe? Undrafted kid, started his 21yo rookie pro season with the Moose on an AHL deal, was signed by and then called up to the Canucks when they sent Bourdon back to junior after his 9 games, played 7 games with the Canucks, sent down and ended up mostly in the AHL but bouncing up and down to the ECHL within that same season and then only ever saw the AHL again for a handful of games and eventually went to France.

I guess Lee Sweatt going from 1G1A in 3 NHL games to being like "oh yeah, f*** this noise" and retiring to pursue a finance career or whatever it was howevermany months later is also impressive. Oreskovich would be another one, but both of those guys were at least AHL players who just decided they'd be better off doing something else. The NHL to ECHL in one season trajectory is kind of wild for a non-goalie.

 

[bandwagonesque]

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Randy Gregg. A five time Stanley Cup champion who finished his career in Vancouver - one of the more fascinating careers out there. Had a medical degree, retired multiple times to pursue his medical education and Olympic hockey, and retired for good in 91-92 and became a family physician.

I know all of these details, thanks to Tom Larscheid beating and shoehorning them into my brains once or twice a game for as long as he played here

 

[RobertKron]

I know all of these details, thanks to Tom Larscheid beating and shoehorning them into my brains once or twice a game for as long as he played here

DOCTOR RANDY GREGG

Turned down an NHL deal to play on the National Team and go to the Olympics - okay, fine, fair enough - but then to just be like "okay cool instead of the NHL I'm just going to go play in Japan now" is wild. Hilariously later got claimed by the Canucks and promptly retired for a year.

 

[MS]

Jason Strudwick played 674 NHL games. Justin Squirts played 27. Struds was a much better player in that era. Not even close.

Rob Davisan

That’s the point.

Really shitty players played a lot of hockey games in the 1990s. Good defenders who were small with low PIM totals weren’t given a chance.

Chris McAllister played 300 NHL games and the guy could barely skate.

Strudwick was an awful hockey player who got a ton of mileage out of being a great dressing room guy who was Scott Niedermayer’s cousin.

 

[bandwagonesque]

Kurtz and Mark Wotton were basically the same story - smallish defenders who were probably NHL-calibre players by today's standards but during the DPE teams still insisted on playing vastly inferior tough guy defenders like Jamie Huscroft or the godawful Jason Strudwick.

Kurtz was really good during his stint. I remember it well.



They acquired Jesse Belanger, Markus Naslund, and Mike Sillinger all on the same 1996 trade deadline.

I was actually most excited about Belanger. Whoops. I was also shocked when they didn't give him a QO that summer.

Didn't Naslund do very little for a while, then finally explode for 2 or 3 goals in one game including a laser beam wrist shot from an impossible angle? I could easily be misremembering this

 

[RobertKron]

Didn't Naslund do very little for a while, then finally explode for 2 or 3 goals in one game including a laser beam wrist shot from an impossible angle? I could easily be misremembering this

Final game of the season in the best Canucks sweaters of all time after going pointless since the trade.

Edit: LEIF ROHLIN SIGHTING

 

[bandwagonesque]

Final game of the season in the best Canucks sweaters of all time after going pointless since the trade.

I'd completely forgotten about those jerseys. Not bad at all

 

[RobertKron]

I'd completely forgotten about those jerseys. Not bad at all

The black pants and all black socks made everyone look so tall. Benning would have traded his own family for every single defenseman on the roster if he'd seen them.

 

[RobertKron]

Man that clip has it all for a mid-late 90s fan. Cooper gear, Rick Tabaracci, the flames' sweaters with the weird angled lines that just end in the middle of nowhere, Leif Rohlin, 90s windbreakers, the dreaded seamless glass, a f***ing AGFA FILM ad on the boards, Kirk McLean handling the puck, COOLEST GAME ON EARTH branding. What a rush.

 

[bandwagonesque]

Also, every younger person on the board should go check our some game footage of prime Naslund and see what an absolute weapon and aesthetically pleasing player he was. He just looked like a walking goal, in the way he moved and held his body. Maybe even more so than Bure although he probably wasn't the better player.

 

[RobertKron]

Also, every younger person on the board should go check our some game footage of prime Naslund and see what an absolute weapon and aesthetically pleasing player he was. He just looked like a walking goal, in the way he moved and held his body. Maybe even more so than Bure although he probably wasn't the better player.

Bure did it with explosiveness and frenetic energy, while Naslund was just so smooth. Looked like he was playing at half speed most of the time.

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

I'd completely forgotten about those jerseys. Not bad at all

I think those would be a great candidate for our next Reverse Retro, if Fanatics still decides to do that.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Marc Chouinard. He was one of Nonis' biggest UFA signing bust and I think he was the first buyout for the Canucks in the cap era. Every time I want to post his name I need to look up Willie Mitchell and look at the pre-2004 lockout Minnesota roster because I forgot his name. Pretty sure others have forgotten about him.

He was awful