Notable brief stint Hab players

[donghabs98]

Inspired by this article by Radulov on Demidov and watching Radulov highlights.



It got me thinking. Who are notable players who played briefly for the Habs (100 games or less)?

Notable can be interpreted both in terms of postive or negative contributions.

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[xX SEYF Xx]

was short and sweet

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Liked Thomas Vanek a lot for the brief time he was here

 

[Le Barron de HF]

I liked Mike Johnson here.

Ditto for Moore/Wisniewski.

 

[sansabri]

Robert Lang

 

[waitin425]

 

[Toene]

Nvm I'm Pejorative Slured

 

[ChesterNimitz]

I always thought Mickey Redmond would be a star for us. He was the price we paid to obtain Frank Mahovlich. While Redmond became a 50 goal scorer for Detroit, I don’t think we win that upset Cup in 1971 without The Big M on the team. While a major contributor in our 72/73 Cup win, that Montreal was one of the strongest teams that I saw in my close to seventy years following God’s team.

I went to Loyola College with Redmond ( he was in one of my classes). Funniest thing, I remember him being one of the most bow legged hockey players I ever saw. Great skater, great shot. Could never have played nets.

 

[Scintillating10]

I liked Mike Johnson here.

Ditto for Moore/Wisniewski.

Both of them good pickups. Moore was good during Halakian run to conference finals. Jeff Halpern and Mike Weaver I liked also

 

[le_sean]

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was short and sweet

If you want a notable negative one from the same season, Eric Staal. What a putrid player. Zero heart, zero drive. Carried by Perry and Armia.

 

[Scintillating10]

I always thought Mickey Redmond would be a star for us. He was the price we paid to obtain Frank Mahovlich. While Redmond became a 50 goal scorer for Detroit, I don’t think we win that upset Cup in 1971 without The Big M on the team. While a major contributor in our 72/73 Cup win, that Montreal was one of the strongest teams that I saw in my close to seventy years following God’s team.

I went to Loyola College with Redmond ( he was in one of my classes). Funniest thing, I remember him being one of the most bow legged hockey player I ever saw. Great skater, great shot. Could never have played nets.

Back injury ruined Redmond career. He had great wrist shot

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

Sheldon Souray

his stint was sweet but not short tho
he played what, more than 300 games with us?

 

[Saundies]

There's too many of them.

- Vanek. Most exciting trade deadline asset we've gotten since Kovalev.
- Radulov (wanted to keep him badly).
- Perry.
- Kovalchuk
- The Wiz
- Robert Lang
- Erik Cole
- Mike Johnson

 

[MasterD]

I liked Mike Johnson here.

Ditto for Moore/Wisniewski.

Wisniewski was awesome for us, wanted to re-sign him.

Also agree with Robert Lang, made an awesome contribution during his short stay here.

 

[CHwest]

Robert Lang, Corey Perry,

 

[Seb]

Marc-André Bergeron only played 60 games for us yet I feel it was very memorable (for both good and bad reasons).

 

[dackelljuneaubulis02]

There's too many of them.

- Vanek. Most exciting trade deadline asset we've gotten since Kovalev.
- Radulov (wanted to keep him badly).
- Perry.
- Kovalchuk
- The Wiz
- Robert Lang
- Erik Cole
- Mike Johnson

Pretty definitive list of the last 20 years.

Erik Cole became a ghost in this forum but he was insane in that one year. Equal to Radulov arguably better

 

[the]

I absolutely loved watching Ilya Kovalchuk for the 1 month we had him.

That Bergevin team was so bad that Kovalchuk was arguably our best player.

 

[selteeck]

Terry Ryan

 

[McGuires Corndog]

There's too many of them.

- Vanek. Most exciting trade deadline asset we've gotten since Kovalev.
- Radulov (wanted to keep him badly).
- Perry.
- Kovalchuk
- The Wiz
- Robert Lang
- Erik Cole
- Mike Johnson

Only one to add is Alex Tanguay

 

[xX SEYF Xx]

There's too many of them.

- Vanek. Most exciting trade deadline asset we've gotten since Kovalev.
- Radulov (wanted to keep him badly).
- Perry.
- Kovalchuk
- The Wiz
- Robert Lang
- Erik Cole
- Mike Johnson

 

[B1g B1rd]

Kjell Dahlin

 

[CDN24]

Robert Lang, that team may have done some damage if not for his severed achillies.

He and Kovalev were also the answer to an obscure trivia question too. In that season they were the last 2 active NHLers to have played with (teammates and sometimes linemates) both Gretzky and Lemieux

 

[BLONG7]

Radulov
Kovalchuk
There are many, but these two guys were fantastic in their short tenures......
Lots of good ones in this thread.......great memory you guys have.

 

[JianYang]

Sheldon Souray

Dude was here for like 6-7 years

Samsonov was here briefly although fairly disappointing. Alex semin falls in the same boat.

Hemsky never made it through the preseason as he had a career ending injury.

Joel ward had a pto with the club. He looked decent enough but didn't make the cut.

Smith pelley, Manny malholtra etc... the list goes on.

Danny Briere, PAP... and pretty much every backup behind price.