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

[CraigsList]

Any player you’ve seen or heard, past or present, where you’ve asked this?

Honestly forgot Carter was a Penguin.

Biggest one for me is Hamonic. Was a bit thrown off to see him in a Sens uni

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[Mad Dog Tannen]

Haha. Saw thread title. First name that came to mind was Jeff Carter on the penguins.

Examples in OP check out.

 

[2CHAINZ]

I can't believe the Senators are still in the league

 

[HugeInTheShire]

Every time I see Cogliano I'm shocked he's still around.

 

[MS]

Every time I see Cogliano I'm shocked he's still around.

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.

 

[Barry Amsterdam]

Okposo

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Every time I see Cogliano I'm shocked he's still around.

This is my pick.

I’m 35 years old and I feel like he should be 50 based on how long it seems like he’s been playing.

 

[BAdvocate]

Dmitry Kulikov....seems like he was playing before Y2K

 

[JD1]

Austin Matthews

 

[Soundwave]

Another vote for Trevor Lewis, lol.

I was actually just mentioning this the other day on the Oilers board, the 1st round pick that Oilers GM Kevin Lowe traded in 2006 at the deadline that year was the pick that went on to be Trevor Lewis I think.

They got Dwayne Roloson for that pick and that move pushed them into the Stanley Cup Finals that year, but Lewis to his credit is still freaking playing in the NHL, haha. Still you do that trade every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

 

[BonMorrison]

Rangers called up Riley Nash the other day. We're the same age irl but feel like this guy is 85.

Also he was on an AHL contract the past two years, usually old guys don't come back from that so good for him.

 

[Acetylene]

Sam Gagner has more than 9 lives

 

[weaponomega]

Marc Staal still kicking around

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Brendan Gallagher is still under contract for 3 more years

 

[GhostfaceWu]

Lazar

 

[Szechwan]

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

 

[MadLuke]

Perron in the news did this a little bit to me.

 

[OUT HOUSE]

Forgot Vlasic was still playing until I saw his name brought up last week.

 

[Bgav]

Everytime i see Gerbe in the nhl

 

[Czechboy]

Vrana.lol

 

[TheBeard]

Every now and then I see Halak getting a tryout and I remember he almost won the starting job over Ken Dryden back in 1978

 

[Voight]

Brendan Smith, Trevor Lewis

 

[AlaBlueShirt]

Reaves

 

[Ezekial]

Joe Flacco

 

[HanSolo]

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.