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The Canucks traded Gustav Forsling for Adam Clendening (right after Forsling had just had a great World Juniors tournament)...

I assumed Benning knew something we didn't (I'm an idiot).

The first time I saw Clendening skate, it was jaw dropping.

He was supposed to be a skilled offensive d-man.

Holy smokes was he bad for a 'skilled' player.

Clendening put up 22 points in his NHL career after we traded for him.

Forsling put up 41 points just this season alone.

Yes, I've seen a lot of players way worse than Clendening, but they were always one dimensional goons who everyone knew couldn't play the game.

Also, for a highly skilled guy (great shot, great size, great skater), Jake Virtanen seemed to bathe in puck repellant. Just absolutely sucked at hockey.
 
IComeInPeace said:
The Canucks traded Gustav Forsling for Adam Clendening (right after Forsling had just had a great World Juniors tournament)...

I assumed Benning knew something we didn't (I'm an idiot).

The first time I saw Clendening skate, it was jaw dropping.

He was supposed to be a skilled offensive d-man.

Holy smokes was he bad for a 'skilled' player.

Clendening put up 22 points in his NHL career after we traded for him.

Forsling put up 41 points just this season alone.

Yes, I've seen a lot of players way worse than Clendening, but they were always one dimensional goons who everyone knew couldn't play the game.

Also, for a highly skilled guy (great shot, great size, great skater), Jake Virtanen seemed to bathe in puck repellant. Just absolutely sucked at hockey.
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:laugh:

oooh that one got me good
 
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shakes the clown said:
sorry but you can't be the worst player in NHL history while also being a former all star game MVP. Does not compute.

I don't know who the worst player is, but for years I used to always say that Patrick Sharp was the worst good player in the NHL if that makes any sense.
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I'm guessing you're kidding but just in case, you know why he was voted into the all star game, right?

It turned out to be a fun story but it was basically people trolling the NHL's voting system. It was a more successful Rory Fitzpatrick ploy.
 
Lazlo Hollyfeld said:
I'm guessing you're kidding but just in case, you know why he was voted into the all star game, right?

It turned out to be a fun story but it was basically people trolling the NHL's voting system. It was a more successful Rory Fitzpatrick ploy.
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I know how he got there, but once he did he earned MVP of the game. And he won his fight vs Kane. of the 1000s of people who have played the game that's good enough for me to say he wasn't the WOAT.
 
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there is probably an endless list of players who played 1 career game and had a bad game.

i'll go with james stewart jr. hes a goalie for the 79-80 bruins with 1 carrer game with 20 minutes of ice time. he let in 5 goals on 9 shots and ended his nhl carrer with a goals against average of 15.00 and a save percentage of .444
 
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That Austrian defenseman the Islanders had about 15 years ago or so. Thomas Pock, I think his name was. Worst player I've ever seen at the NHL level.
 
Yutaka Fukufuji has to be one of the worst goalies making the NHL. Started one NHL game, allowed three goals on nine shots and was pulled. Played in the Netherlands and Denmark and had a long career in the Asian league.

Of course Japanese goalie making the NHL is a feelgood story but he was seemingly on completely wrong level.
 
IComeInPeace said:
The Canucks traded Gustav Forsling for Adam Clendening (right after Forsling had just had a great World Juniors tournament)...

I assumed Benning knew something we didn't (I'm an idiot).

The first time I saw Clendening skate, it was jaw dropping.

He was supposed to be a skilled offensive d-man.

Holy smokes was he bad for a 'skilled' player.

Clendening put up 22 points in his NHL career after we traded for him.

Forsling put up 41 points just this season alone.

Yes, I've seen a lot of players way worse than Clendening, but they were always one dimensional goons who everyone knew couldn't play the game.

Also, for a highly skilled guy (great shot, great size, great skater), Jake Virtanen seemed to bathe in puck repellant. Just absolutely sucked at hockey.
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To be fair, Forsling absolutely sucked when he was with the hawks.
 
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I read today that Tanner Glass has a role in the rangers organizAtion as a “player development coach”, is this true? Because that’s super ironic after reading this thread.

Also my answer is Luke Gazdic. Honourable mention to the Bruins version of Marty Turco. Although I remember that series Thomas Vokoun and MAF looked just as awful.
 
banks said:
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:
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Methinks he's stretching the truth a bit, considering he had 240PIMS in 53 games in the NAHL, and I don't think he'd have been wearing a full cage there as a 19 year old.
 
Fig said:
en.wikipedia.org

Bill Mikkelson - Wikipedia

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GP: 147
Total points: 22
PIM: 105
+/-: -147

Ouch.

EDIT: Actually, his story is pretty cool. He spent 24 years working for IBM and retired at age 55. He even comments about his NHL career, he kinda claims he kept advancing and he doesn't know why. :laugh: Mad props to this guy.

This is a surprisingly good read:



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Cool article, thanks for sharing.

His son was in the same mold. Played 131 games over 6 seasons barely contributing and never played a playoff game. There’s a lot of those guys who are technically NHL players but will only get part time opportunities on bottom dwellers.

No trade value and replacement level but they’ll get a league min contract on Arizona or Columbus.
 
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HTFN said:
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.
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Yeah I remember him being adequate with Montreal. We had better players through the years playing a similar role, like Hal Gill, but Murray was adequate.
 
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