Name a random Canuck

[Melvin]

A Jeff Paterson tweet says that the following scouts are attending tonight's game:

Wade Brookbank
Steve Kariya
Richard Park

That's 3 good answers right there.

 

[Canuckle1970]

We've rolled out a few real tough MF'ers in our time...

Glen Cochrane
Randy Holt
Jim Agnew
Darren Langdon
Jack McIlhargey
Ronnie Stern

and for about 5 minutes, Joey Kocur

Was he like an Ogie Oglethorpe?

 

[Diversification]

I was considered a Debbie Downer at the time when I insisted on how stupid that whole thing was. Same as John Scott.

The guy who started it definitely had an axe to grind with Fitzpatrick. He was a Sabres fan IIRC.

But the campaign morphed into one of those weird viral moments when we started to collectively realize the power of freeping the All Star fan poll - let's face it, they kind of deserved it and the ASG is no one's favorite event over the age of 10. And then it started metastasizing into a satire of the ridiculous political attack ads that were so prevalent in the '06 midterms and also spurred some pretty good debate about what was wrong with the ASG in general.

 

[clunk]

Is that where he is now?? Yikes

Well, yeah. But he's also in the KHL, so.. It's really not a terrible step down. Better than the AHL imo.

 

[PG Canuck]

Lots a interesting names here, from Mogilny to Bure...... Gaudette to Boeser..... Hughes to Madden

Who

 

[biturbo19]

Peter Schaefer, the man with the most ****ed up curve on his stick I can remember.

It's not even that he was that obscure a player the first time around. It was that absolutely bizarre stint at the end of his career where he came back from disappearing in Europe to play like 15 games or whatever, after we'd brought him in as a "camp body" to satisfy that "NHL vets" rule. Then he somehow actually made the team out of camp. One of the weirder "homecoming-ish" stories.

Victor Oreskovich

Oreo is such a good one. Just makes me smile and kinda giggle every time i'm reminded he existed as a Canuck. The absolute scale of the lore around his weighlifting prowess and how good he could be was funny at the time, but it's so much more hilarious looking back now.

Lukas Krajicek.

Not sure i'll ever be able to forget him. He's one of the most memorable "forgettable" players...just for the sheer hype of how good he could be. And the degree of fizzle on that hype.

Mario Bliznak

Mathieu Schneider (best smile the Canucks ever had)

Sergei Shirokov - legend

Don't think i'll soon forget the Mathieu Schneider fiasco. The way that blew up was pretty memorable.

And Shirokov will never be forgotten. One of the all-time Preseason Greats.

 

[biturbo19]

My nomination, is Ryan Shannon.

Man i remember being pretty excited about that guy for some reason. He wasn't even like...bad, in my recollection at least. Kinda fun, moderately productive player very briefly. Then he was gone. I legitimately think a player like him would've found a lot more opportunity if he'd come along in today's game. A lot more tolerance for tiny little waterbugs throughout a lineup these days.

 

[Zippgunn]

Rockin' Ronalds Kenins. Remember the game when he registered 4 hits against Chara alone?

 

[biturbo19]

Rockin' Ronalds Kenins. Remember the game when he registered 4 hits against Chara alone?

In my memory, Kenins will always have those one or two random absolute Kovalchuk-like snipes. That random stretch where it was like, "wait, this guy can actually score?" And then nothing.

 

[Zombotron]

My nomination, is Ryan Shannon.

Man i remember being pretty excited about that guy for some reason. He wasn't even like...bad, in my recollection at least. Kinda fun, moderately productive player very briefly. Then he was gone. I legitimately think a player like him would've found a lot more opportunity if he'd come along in today's game. A lot more tolerance for tiny little waterbugs throughout a lineup these days.

But do you remember when Nikolai Khabibulin punched him in the head after he scored a shootout goal

 

[biturbo19]

But do you remember when Nikolai Khabibulin punched him in the head after he scored a shootout goal

I honestly did not, even in remembering Shannon in general. But now that you bring it up and i just youtubed it...i do totally remember that incident and him being caught up in some phase of that whole "spin-o-rama gate" when it came to shootouts. When players were constantly trying to cheese the process with silly spin moves and snowing goalies and the whole, "did the puck maintain momentum" rule and all the rest of that goofy nonsense.

Wow, this thread took me down a nostalgia lane i did not expect to go down. Thx for that.

 

[RussianRacket]

Tyler Bouck been mentioned yet?

 

[Mr. Canucklehead]

Brian Glynn. Played regular minutes on the blueline during the 1994 Cup Run after Murzyn went down to injury.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Jim "The House" Sandlak.

In the 1993-94 season he hit a player into a cameraman. The camera caught the player's face coming straight at the camera and crashing into it. When the dust settled and they showed the player Sandlak hit, he had a crescent-shaped cut around his mouth from hitting the camera.

 

[Zombotron]

Brian Glynn. Played regular minutes on the blueline during the 1994 Cup Run after Murzyn went down to injury.

Wasn't he on the '95 Hawks who beat them the next year? Or was that Murray Craven...

 

[Rowlet]

Mario Blizznak

 

[PG Canuck]

My nomination, is Ryan Shannon.

Man i remember being pretty excited about that guy for some reason. He wasn't even like...bad, in my recollection at least. Kinda fun, moderately productive player very briefly. Then he was gone. I legitimately think a player like him would've found a lot more opportunity if he'd come along in today's game. A lot more tolerance for tiny little waterbugs throughout a lineup these days.

How could anyone forget this. Just saw @Zombotron mentioned it.

 

[nucks88]

Sheldon Kannegiesser...all-world name....

 

[PavelBure10]

Larry Courville
Rob Gordon
Jose Charbonneau
Dane Jackson
Gary Leeman
Lonny Bohonos
Peter Skudra
Troy Crowder
David Roberts
Alexander Semak
Jamie Hushcroft
Lubomir Vaic
Bert Robertson
Zenith Komarniski
Alfie Michaud
Corey Schwab
Harry York
Trevor Letowski
Dennis Pederson
Jan Hlavac
Bryan Helmer
Marc Bergevin
Nathan McIver
Danny Sabourin

 

[Zombotron]

Oh, Dany Sabourin. He of the diarrhea relief

 

[PG Canuck]

Marc Andre Gragnani - the powerplay specialist!

 

[rypper]

Larry Goodenough.

 

[Raistlin]

Legendary Mike Fountain of the debut Shutout.

 

[Iron Mike Sharpe]

shout out to the Swedish Five of 82

Per-Olov Brasar - Thomas Gradin - Lars Molin
Lars Lindgren - Anders Eldebrink

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Was he like an Ogie Oglethorpe?

Actually, IIRC, Kocur had a relatively incident free career... especially considering the rough roads some of his contemporaries travelled.