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Worst NHL Player in NHL History

fahad203 said:
Some of you don't know who Mike Craig was
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I was just about to come here and say this.

The Miracle on Ice catapulted a few of the players to NHL careers. Some deservedly so and it worked out (Broten, Morrow), others not so much (Craig).
 
Rechlicz is a good pick.

Back when there were legit goons, some of these guys were goons at lower levels too, and were literally just in the NHL to fight.

Derek Boogaard was a 4th liner in the WHL. There are very good major junior players who never played professionally.
 
This could be an interesting discussion if it was changed to "worst player to play 50 games" or something like that. It would be an interesting poll tourney, have every team's fanbase decide their nominee, and then do a bracket style 1 on 1 vote for who was worst.

I nominate Cory Cross for the Oilers.
 
Lots of the goons were pretty bad. Entertaining as hell, but bad.

Trevor Gillies is another guy. 3 points in 57 games, 17 shots on goal.
Cam Janssen with 14 points in 336 NHL games.
 
Machinehead said:
Rechlicz is a good pick.

Back when there were legit goons, some of these guys were goons at lower levels too, and were literally just in the NHL to fight.

Derek Boogaard was a 4th liner in the WHL. There are very good major junior players who never played professionally.
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Yep, some guys are fits only in a very specific role, regardless of the league they are in. Steve McIntyre was a great fighter, but he only scored 5 points in over 100 WHL games, and the most points he had in any single season in the ECHL or AHL was 5, despite playing in up to 60 games a year for a few years. Still, he made the NHL and played over 70 games between two different teams. He had his role, he was among the best at it, but he wasn't a good hockey player.
 
You sort of have to draw up some parameters. The worst player probably would have been some guy in the first few years of the league that played one game.
 

Pierre Dagenais: A Study in Hockey Mediocrity​


Watching Pierre Dagenais play hockey was like witnessing the slow death of joy itself. His presence on the ice didn't just kill momentum, it sucked the very life from the game, turning highlight reels into cautionary tales. While his defensive game remained purely theoretical – something that existed only in coaching meetings and never made it to the ice.

At 6'5", Dagenais managed the remarkable feat of playing as if he were 5'2", with a physical presence that could best be described as "technically present." His positioning in the defensive zone was so consistently poor that teammates began to suspect he was using a different playbook entirely – possibly one written in hieroglyphics.

His one supposed strength – his shot – was rendered moot by his inability to arrive at scoring positions before games ended. When he did manage to find himself near the puck, his decision-making carried all the decisiveness of a pendulum.

In the end, Dagenais's NHL career served as a compelling argument for the invention of the healthy scratch.
 
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Justin Dowling is a fine journeyman 4th liner, you could do a lot worse for your 13th forward.

The answer is probably the zamboni driver that shut out the Leafs
 
Satan said:


i came across this tweet and it made me think- Dowling played on the Stars, I don't know if he was bad enough to earn this title - but i am willing it to leave it up to the fan's of HFBOARD's to decide
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I think that the worst player in NHL history, relative to the league at the time or recent past is almost surely someone for the WWII years of the NHL but even then are we asking for a full time player of just a guy who had a cup of coffee?

If it's the latter it's probably some emergency back up goalie situation right?
 
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