I'd add Beezer and Jan Erixon here as well. Left one year too early but were Rangers for over a decade until the end of the 92-93 season.
Players who just missed out on winning the Stanley Cup
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WarriorofTime
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Cam Barker and Jack Skille would have felt less bad as far as busts go if they had snuck their way onto a Hawks cup roster but Barker got traded midway through 2009-10 and Skille hasn’t made the team yet then got traded away in the middle of 2010-11 prior to the next one.
Air Budd Dwyer
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Todd Bertuzzi with Detroit in 06-07. They wanted to bring him back but he signed with Anaheim instead and missed out on the 2008 Cup.
mrhockey193195
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The Nicholls example is even more cruel when you dive into it.
- Starts with the mediocre Kings, eventually they make the Gretzky trade and the team is trending upwards, and then Nicholls gets traded to the Rangers and misses the 93 run.
- As you mentioned, he plays well for the Rangers, but then gets traded to Edmonton for Messier just as EDM are leaving their dynasty years. Goes on a great cinderella run but loses in the Conference Finals to Chicago. Misses the Rangers 94 cup win two years later.
- Gets traded to NJ, team becomes a contender, loses to his former Rangers in 94 in the Conference Finals, and then he leaves in the offseason and misses the 1995 cup.
- Joins Chicago - the team that beat his Oilers in 92 - and has a good first year on a run to the conference finals. But Chicago is trending downwards after that.
- Joins SJ, who are on the ascendency, but retires before they truly become contenders in the early-to-mid 00s.
Has anyone played more Conference Finals games/made more Conference Finals appearances without ever playing in the Stanley Cup Finals?!?!
Mike C
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Billy Harris. 1st overall pick for expansion Islanders. Goes to semis 4 times. Gets traded for Goring who is one of the missing links and 2 months after the deal, the NYI goes on to hoist the first of the dynasty 4 straight while Harris had one decent season the rest of his career
MadLuke
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Shane Corson.
In 1986, played only 3 regular seasons and none in the playoff so did not meet the criteria, considering Lemieux-Richer got to play it is not like it was impossible for a 19 years old to make the team, he did the regular season and 17 playoff games the year right after.
Was traded in the summer of 1992, was not on the 1993 cup winner.
2004 Dallas, first year they stopped to be a powerhouse, couple of time on the Leafs reaching those conference finals before that.
Also missed the Olympic gold in 1998.
Paul Kariya is one I had to make sure and look up before starting writing.
The Ducks loose in 2003, left the franchise before the lock-out, they are a strong contender and win it in 2007.
2004 Avs could-should have won did not work
Nashville 06-07 really strong teams that won 100 games and the kind you think could do it in the playoff, Trotz, Timonen-Hamhuis-Markov young Suter-Weber at some point, Vokoun, a little bit of Forsberg magic with some previous winner veteran presence like an Arnott... Could imagine believing in it.
In 1986, played only 3 regular seasons and none in the playoff so did not meet the criteria, considering Lemieux-Richer got to play it is not like it was impossible for a 19 years old to make the team, he did the regular season and 17 playoff games the year right after.
Was traded in the summer of 1992, was not on the 1993 cup winner.
2004 Dallas, first year they stopped to be a powerhouse, couple of time on the Leafs reaching those conference finals before that.
Also missed the Olympic gold in 1998.
Paul Kariya is one I had to make sure and look up before starting writing.
The Ducks loose in 2003, left the franchise before the lock-out, they are a strong contender and win it in 2007.
2004 Avs could-should have won did not work
Nashville 06-07 really strong teams that won 100 games and the kind you think could do it in the playoff, Trotz, Timonen-Hamhuis-Markov young Suter-Weber at some point, Vokoun, a little bit of Forsberg magic with some previous winner veteran presence like an Arnott... Could imagine believing in it.
vadim sharifijanov
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there’s a genre of player i have a lot of respect for: grizzled veteran who has a transformational effect on a young team, “teaching them how to win” so to speak, but doesn’t manage to stick around long enough to get the cup.
john tonelli on the 80s flames is one, marty lapointe on the blackhawks is another. gary roberts on pittsburgh.
i think ryan smyth might have been this for the kings, but i’m not sure.
and as billy harris has been mentioned, maybe ed westfall on the 70s islanders deserves a mention?
also, ryan callahan on tampa? wendel clark on quebec? and sadly, mats sundin was almost this on the canucks.
john tonelli on the 80s flames is one, marty lapointe on the blackhawks is another. gary roberts on pittsburgh.
i think ryan smyth might have been this for the kings, but i’m not sure.
and as billy harris has been mentioned, maybe ed westfall on the 70s islanders deserves a mention?
also, ryan callahan on tampa? wendel clark on quebec? and sadly, mats sundin was almost this on the canucks.
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