Whatever happened to...

[bondon]

Ville Leino?

I was bored and looked back at some of my old fantasy hockey teams via my Yahoo profile and apparently I owned this guy when he broke out for 53 points with Philadelphia.

What about you guys? - Any players that you've owned that broke out in a big way for a really short while to make you look like a genius and then proceeded to fall off the face of the earth?

[LuigiC173]

Petr Prucha

[RizzeeDizzee]

Leino's name came up lately due to Guentzel tying his rookie playoff scoring record. Of course Guentzel owners hope he ends up more like the other guy who holds the records - Dino Ciccarelli - than Leino.

In the case of Leino, he played well, got paid, then coasted. He wasn't the first to do that, and won't be the last.

[hockeyrobot]

Leino and Prucha were definitely two of my favorites over the years. Prucha did have a few good years...feel like he was around for a little longer than Prucha.

Latendresse sticks out for some reason.

[PenguinHunter]

Milan Michalek, 60 points in 77 games for the Senators.

Cory Conacher when he had 24 points in 35 games for the Lightning.

[lucafen4]

Jim Carey

[butch]

Jim Carey

I had read that when isles were run on a shoestring budget milbury begged him to give the nhl another shot via the islanders

[Pengwin7]

Gilbert Dionne.
When I was a young (naive) hockey card collector, I thought I'd jump all over rising card valuation stock market by loading up on Gilbert Dionne rookies in 1991-1992.
Probably bought 10+ of them at $2 or more each.


Yeesh, I thought that was my worst buy ever until I checked the price of my 15+ Kevin Stevens rookie cards (that I had paid $5 each for)...


Shoulda spent that money on SportsSelect... or noody magazines... or Jagr rookies!!! Damn it.
Anything woulda been better than effin these two hacks.

[ericdaoust]

Fabian Brunnstrom

[lucafen4]

Justin Pogge

[bondon]

Justin Pogge

I was looking for examples where guys actually did really well in the NHL at least for a little bit

[Bass56]

Swiss league star, Damien Brunner

[bondon]

Swiss league star, Damien Brunner

That's a really good one - I had him the year he came into the league. Everyone warned me about the mid-season wall and I didn't listen.

[ericdaoust]

That's a really good one - I had him the year he came into the league. Everyone warned me about the mid-season wall and I didn't listen.

No, he declined solely because you held on to him.

[Bass56]

That's a really good one - I had him the year he came into the league. Everyone warned me about the mid-season wall and I didn't listen.

Haha, I remember the warnings on the wall... I traded him after his first year (26pts in 44games) along with Marchand and Green for MacKinnon and a 1st the following year.

Little did I know, the players that I was sending back then were ranked:
Brunner

Green
Marchand


And today it's:
Marchand




Green














Brunner