Players you remember absolutely nothing about (or, who was Steve Poapst)

seventieslord

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What was Ed Ward doing in an NHL skills competition? :confused:
I don't know for sure how many years they did it, but I know that in 95-96, everybody was eligible to participate in the skills competition. it was based on the results from the individual team competitions.

This was my grade 9 year and my first year as a THN subscriber. I probably nerded out about hockey more than I ever did before or since, during this season. Another strange factoid I can tell you, is that Jamie Heward had the hardest shot in the AHL that season, and Len Esau won it in the IHL. Heward had the hardest shot overall, ahead of both Manson and Esau.

This is something that probably stuck in my head all this time because Jamie Heward was a St John's Maple leaf that year, and because my dad had coached him (and converted him to D) when he was 15. Being that he was someone my family knew personally, we were rooting hard for him to make the show, and following his AHL progress pretty carefully.
 
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seventieslord

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.....all three were Saskatchewan born defensemen, 6-2 or 6-3, drafted within 4 years of each other, who all spent one of the least memorable periods of their careers with the leafs.
 

Iron Mike Sharpe

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That's definitely how to pronounce the player's name. As for the skates, is it possible they were just known for years by the incorrect pronunciation because most people just saw the name on the skates and in newspaper ads and pronounced it like it was English?
I don't remember people pronouncing the skates that way. Maybe some kids. Daoust skates were well-known, worn by Gretzky.
Yeah, probably the case, because I had Daoust skates years before Dan Daoust was on the scene, and I "retired" from hockey by that time. My Dad called them that and so did kids on my hockey teams in the 70s. I don't recall TV or radio ads, but definitely a lot of print ads in the 70s, so I guess I'm remembering other peoples' misprounounciations.
 
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torontoblood

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Ladislav Kohn definitely played in at least one playoff game! The reason I know this is because that's the only thing I remember him for - unexpectedly beating the hell out of Tyler Wright in a fight in the 1999 playoffs.








I remember that Kohn had an assist on the first ever overtime goal scored in the brand new Air Canada Centre/now called Scotiabank Arena. It was actually Steve Thomas who scored in overtime for the Leafs to win this Saturday night game against the Montreal Canadiens . Mats Sundin and Ladislav Kohn had each an assist on that winning overtime goal

Final score Toronto 3, Montreal 2 (Overtime)

February 20, 1999 (exactly a week after the last game at maple Leaf gardens against their former original 6/Norris division rival Blackhawks on Saturday February 13,1999. They lost that game 6-2 on national TV.



They permanently closed the old Maple Leaf Gardens with a loss but opened the new building with a win against their forever rivals, the Habs.
 
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ShelbyZ

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The only thing I remember about Ladislav Kohn was his small part in the Red Wings 2002 season...

He came to camp on a PTO, got signed and assigned to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks. Then maybe not even two weeks later he's sent to Espoo in Finland. Then he comes back to Detroit late in the regular season, gets dressed as a warm body mostly to rest up some vets for a west coast road trip and is scratched for the entirety of the playoffs. He got to lift the Stanley Cup (not sure if he got a ring) and went with Jiri Slegr, Jiri Fischer and Hasek when they took it back to the Czech Rep. that summer.
 

Hockey Outsider

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Extremely memorable name with extreme disassociation between it and his play style. It's what Souray should've been called during his scoring days.
Speaking of that (a disconnect between a player's name and style of play) - how about Larry Playfair? He had ten straight seasons of 100+ PIM (maxing out at 258). He spent a lot of time in the sin bin for someone who should know how to "play fair"!
 

Golden_Jet

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Former Chicago Blackhawks, etc. goaltender Denis DeJordy leaps to my mind. As a tweener in the late 1960s, I saw an intriguing photo of him in some hockey publication at the time. It was a shot from the end zone glass with DeJordy on the front tips of his blades & stretching his glove hand above his head to snag a puck. I immediately sketched that scene & had it tacked to my bedroom wall for many years. I had no idea he had won the Vezina Trophy in 1966-67 with the Hawks, nor did I know where he went in hockey after that or that he logged 300+ NHL appearances over his career (with a couple more stints in minor pro hockey before retiring from play at the end of the 1973-74 season in Baltimore). Now I wish I still had that sketch.
Forgot about him, good one, I think he was Espo’s backup for a bit.
Don’t recall his video game rating though.
 

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