Name a random Canuck

[HairyKneel]

View attachment 923393

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]

View attachment 923766

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