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And he was a WORSE coach if you can believe it....That Charlie Huddy video is one of my favorite hockey videos of all time and I'd love to know the history behind it.
Uploaded to YouTube in 2008, and possibly produced years before that. Just who hated Charlie Huddy that much to make something like that?
John Scott should be in the running.
If he were 6 feet tall and 200 lbs the guy wouldn't even sniff the AHL, let alone NHL.
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By 23, I had never been in a real hockey fight. Sure, I’d wrestled around in PeeWee and Juniors with a cage on, but that’s not real. I didn’t know the first thing about how to fight.
My first couple games in the AHL with the Houston Aeros, I heard this four, five times a game:
“Hey, ya big b****d, y’wanna go?”
“Let’s go. Right now.”
“We’re going.”
I kept saying, “Uh, no. No, I’m good.”
I can name hundreds who didn't have a 5 year career.Name a post-O6 forward that scored less than 22 points in a 5 year career.
Right, because when TBL picked up Fleury this season, they were trying to make it fair on other teams by signing some bad players on their roster, balancing out the Hedmans and Stamkoses.The truly elite are the guys with 200 or more games played and fewer than 100 penalty minutes. Two guys really stand out in recent memory: Keaton Ellerby and Haydn Fleury. These guys are the white bread of the National Hockey League. They bring absolutely nothing to the table.
Looking at the PIMs, you can tell why these guys were in the NHL, but wtf is up with Tommy Vestlund?
Merit, my ass. He had 11 fights his first season in the AHL.This is absolute garbage.
John Scott made it to the AHL on merit before becoming any kind of fighter. He talks about it in his Player's Tribune article. Here's an exerpt:
They talked about this on the NHL network
One guy said “Bill Mikelson” who I don’t know of.
Played 147 games
Was -147 for his career
Worst plus minus in a season in history
Mentioned he was the worst skating player they’d ever seen
Despite being assigned to the minors late in the year and appearing in only 59 games, he ended up posting an all-time NHL worst plus/minus rating of -82. More than four decades later, this remains an NHL record and no one has posted a mark worse than -69 since.
Those 1974--75 Capitals were a rank embarrassment by all hockey metrics. They scored 181 goals and allowed 446. They gave up 10 or more goals seven times during the 80-game schedule. They finished the season with just 21 points, 20 fewer than their expansion cousins, the Kansas City Scouts. And they had eight players with ratings worse than -50, including defenseman Greg Joly, the first pick of the 1974 amateur draft, who was -68 in 44 games, meaning that he had a higher minus-per-game than Mikkelson, -1.55 to -1.39.
There are a few ways to answer this.
We could look at the list of guys who played only a single NHL game, and probably pick any on that list.
We could pick a high end prospect who had a few games but never made the leap - my vote for this is Griffin Reinhart - 38 NHL games and 1 playoff game, 2 points total, a supposed defensive specialist who couldn't manage gaps, didn't have NHL speed or aggression, and just all around wasn't an NHL player
Do like has been done already and give a list of guys (goons mostly) who played a sigificant number of minutes but never produced, although those guys had a different job so I don't include them.
How Douglas Murray managed to stay in the NHL for so long is beyond me. During the 12/13 lockout he went back to Sweden and showed he didn't even belong in the Swedish second league.
During the 2008 IIHF World Championship, Murray checked Russian player Aleksey Morozov out of the game. Morozov suffered a severe concussion,[citation needed] while Murray received a match penalty.[11]
You literally couldn’t move the man. He had bear strength and was not a fan of you being by his goaltender, that can get you work. Not surprised he’s not a big ice guy but in the corners against the big boys he was something to watch.How Douglas Murray managed to stay in the NHL for so long is beyond me. During the 12/13 lockout he went back to Sweden and showed he didn't even belong in the Swedish second league.
sorry but you can't be the worst player in NHL history while also being a former all star game MVP. Does not compute.John Scott should be in the running.
If he were 6 feet tall and 200 lbs the guy wouldn't even sniff the AHL, let alone NHL.