The “Wow He’s Still in the League?” Thread

[thekernel]

Zemgus Girgensons, forever and always

 

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Alex Goligoski

Everytime i see Gerbe in the nhl

He retired a year and a half ago lol

 

[Legend123]

Gagner

 

[Eegs]

Lazar

Going to take a lot more to get that smile out of the league.

 

[Circulartheory]

Ditto Trevor Lewis.

I was also surprised to see Alex Goligoski in Minnesota's lineup when they played Vancouver a few days ago ... I kind of just assumed his career ended after last season.

I don't think Goligoski falls into this category as he's clinging for dear life, playing as a fill in 6 dman and only here because of his NMC and our cap space/injury problems.

 

[ScottyMascotty]

Trevor Lewis

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Zemgus Girgensons, forever and always

I was like no way he's still in the league, but I looked and was shocked that he in fact is.

 

[MS]

Sam Gagner has more than 9 lives

Sam Gagner is top of the list for me.

A lot of the times we'll hear about player retirements from guys who haven't been in the league in years and think "I thought they already retired."

I always get that feeling with Gagner and am surprised to hear he's still kicking it.

Gagner's career is crazy.

He was waived by Philly in the 15-16 season which was his 9th season in the NHL, 9 seasons ago.

At that point, it looked like his career was close to over, seemed like the stage where lots of guys of his ilk head to Switzerland or the KHL.

Then he signed with Columbus and scored 30 points in his first 33 games there and has parlayed that into another 8 seasons in the NHL, almost entirely as a space-filler on terrible/tanking teams.

He's basically been veteran tank-aid longer than he was actually considered a player with value.

 

[Actual Ducks Fan 91]

Semyon Varlamov.

Feels like forever ago he and Ovi did that spy commercial for ESPN.

 

[Sky04]

Ryan Suter and Alex Gologoski

 

[Warh1ppy]

Nobody mentioning Dan O'Halloran?

The guy cost a few teams full series and at least two teams critical games during cup finals.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Ryan Carpenter and Devin Shore

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Zack MacEwen.

He played against us last week, and I was shocked he’s still in the NHL. I remember him on the Canucks during the pandemic, and thought no chance he’d last.

Somehow he has all these years.

 

[MasterMatt25]

Either Megna

 

[robsenz]

Curtis Lazar, Stefan Noesen, Chris Tierney, Nick Bonino

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Ryan Carpenter

So famous the Rangers gave him a longer video montage than we gave Buchnevich.

 

[the valiant effort]

Just imagine how many studs will be on this list someday when the league has 36 teams

 

[AlexBrovechkin8]

Darren Helm.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Jeff Petry, because his name merges with some retired player so that I think this dude had a 30 year career.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Don Granato.

 

[eviohh26]

Perron and Bonino

 

[Whaddagoal]

I hadn't heard the name Bortuzzo in years until he was traded the other day

Same for me. I thought he was gone.

Gerbe is another one but apparently he retired!

 

[adsfan]

Perron and Bonino

Bones has played 14 years in the NHL, this is 15, and he is 35 years old.

I thought that last season in Pittsburgh, his second tour, was the end.

 

[LeProspector]

the remaining players from the Pens 2017 Stanley Cup:

Sidney Crosby
Evgeni Malkin
Kris Letang
Jake Guentzel
Bryan Rust

and CHAD MF RUHWEDEL

 

[Machinehead]

Seeing Trevor Lewis back on the Kings last night caught me off guard.

I thought the announcer made a mistake and meant Trevor Moore.