Name a random Canuck

[LordBacon]

LeBron James

 

[Jay26]

Jeff Cowan.

Cowan the Brabarian!

 

[AlainVigneaultsGum]

Darren Langdon

 

[PavelBure10]

Jose Charbonneau from the Vancouver Voodoo played for the Canucks twice in his career for 3 different seasons. Very good roller hockey player but never really seemed to make it as a NHL player.

Corey Scwab, scrappy goaltender who came and gone and sits in Vancouvers goaltending graveyard.

 

[overboard]

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

Craig Janney. Technically.

 

[HairyKneel]

Didn't Corson go after Jovocop off the ice in a postal rage? I forgot the story behind that.

He beat the piss out of Jovo in the game and Jovo said a derogatory remark about his sister and he wanted to feed him some more after they left the ice.Corson was tough. I think he was a bit of a scumbag but pound for pound he was one of the toughest ever. I remember Dana Murzyn trying to avenge the beating he threw on Goalie Bob. It didn't end up well for Dana.

Erik Cairns gave Corson the beating he needed. He tried to boot Cairns after Cairns pulled his hair. What is it about Montreal and Vancouver fights here. Fraser and Nilan fighting outside the dressing room, the brawl in 86, Corson etc.,

 

[beardo]

Zac Dalpe, how has he continued to play NHL games until recently?

 

[RobertKron]

Jose Charbonneau from the Vancouver Voodoo played for the Canucks twice in his career for 3 different seasons. Very good roller hockey player but never really seemed to make it as a NHL player.

IIRC, former high pick who had basically fallen off the radar for NA pro ice hockey and somehow got a PTO with the Canucks off the back of his season with the Voodoo, made the team out of camp and was doing okay, and then ran into injuries.

Another favourite of young me. Hard not to wonder how his career might have gone if he hadn't had the misfortune to be a Quebecois kid drafted high by the Canadiens.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Christian Ruutu

Scored a goal from centre ice one time. Not related to the other Ruutu who would play for us later.

The guy is actually Ruuttu. Christian Ruuttu.

Took me years to realize this.

 

[Kryten]

Roman Oksiuta

 

[wetcoast]

He beat the piss out of Jovo in the game and Jovo said a derogatory remark about his sister and he wanted to feed him some more after they left the ice.Corson was tough. I think he was a bit of a scumbag but pound for pound he was one of the toughest ever. I remember Dana Murzyn trying to avenge the beating he threw on Goalie Bob. It didn't end up well for Dana.

Erik Cairns gave Corson the beating he needed. He tried to boot Cairns after Cairns pulled his hair. What is it about Montreal and Vancouver fights here. Fraser and Nilan fighting outside the dressing room, the brawl in 86, Corson etc.,

Speaking of tough was Croson as tough pound for pound as Curt Fraser?

 

[wetcoast]

We also had Taylor Hall but not the current one.

 

[F A N]

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

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

He beat the piss out of Jovo in the game and Jovo said a derogatory remark about his sister and he wanted to feed him some more after they left the ice.Corson was tough. I think he was a bit of a scumbag but pound for pound he was one of the toughest ever. I remember Dana Murzyn trying to avenge the beating he threw on Goalie Bob. It didn't end up well for Dana.

Erik Cairns gave Corson the beating he needed. He tried to boot Cairns after Cairns pulled his hair. What is it about Montreal and Vancouver fights here. Fraser and Nilan fighting outside the dressing room, the brawl in 86, Corson etc.,

Given the 80s, I wonder about him. Just some of the stories you hear are so unbelievable, and those are the ones that got out? Like the dude just seemed like the single biggest piece of work around. It was Sean Avery level, maybe even worse. Poor Jason Arnott, the kid.

F*** I wanna hear some stories, or takes, rather, old man. What was his deal? Damphousse for Corson? Huh? C for winger? Just seemed like he carried more value than he was worth to have in the league that long.

I love me some skill, but controversial take I love seeing the romanticized gladiators on ice shit. Was toughness really valued that highly back then? Was it poor assessment, kind of like that "he would be the first to lead you into a war, but not really much of a leader"?

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Given the 80s, I wonder about him. Just some of the stories you hear are so unbelievable, and those are the ones that got out? Like the dude just seemed like the single biggest piece of work around. It was Sean Avery level, maybe even worse. Poor Jason Arnott, the kid.

F*** I wanna hear some stories, or takes, rather, old man. What was his deal? Damphousse for Corson? Huh? C for winger? Just seemed like he carried more value than he was worth to have in the league that long.

I love me some skill, but controversial take I love seeing the romanticized gladiators on ice shit. Was toughness really valued that highly back then? Was it poor assessment, kind of like that "he would be the first to lead you into a war, but not really much of a leader"?

There was a wild fetish for players who were big, could score, and were kind of unhinged to the point of scaring opponents.

Corson, apparently, grew up rough and he and his dad would go into biker bars and take everyone on and just leave bodies broken in their wake.

Also, Corson famously (amongst those who know/knew off the record stuff) slept with Mogilny's wife while in Toronto and that was part of why Corson suddenly left during the playoffs for 'anxiety/Crohn's disease'.