As a spinoff to the excellent face of a franchise thread, I thought we might try to nominate the “shame of the franchise.”
What I have in mind are players that have come to epitomize bad management decisions, dark times for fans or missed opportunities. For example, this could be a bad signing, a bad trade, a notoriously bad draft decision, an over-the-hill legend who does not know when to quit or simply a player who symbolizes a particularly dark era in a franchise history (the captain or best player of a very bad hockey team).
Hopefully, we can come up with names of players that are well-known (so not a draft pick who simply faded into oblivion –except perhaps for first overalls), but for the wrong reasons.
Here are some of my suggestions, I’ll try to add as I continue to think about it.
WEST
Anaheim Ducks –
Arizona Coyotes/1st Winnipeg Jets – Brett Hull
Calgary Flames – Gary Leeman
Edmonton Oilers – Jimmy Carson (not his fault, but the main piece in the infamous trade)
Los Angeles Kings -
San Jose Sharks –
Vancouver Canucks – Mark Messier
Chicago Blackhawks – Alexei Zhamnov
Colorado Avalanche/Québec Nordiques – Guy Lafleur (he retired too early, only to make a comeback and retire much too late)
Dallas Stars – Sean Avery
Minnesota Wild – Dany Heatley
Nashville Predators – Alexander Radulov
St. Louis Blues –
Thrashers/2nd Winnipeg Jets – Patrik Stefan
EAST
Boston Bruins -
Buffalo Sabres – Ville Leino
Detroit Red Wings – Marcel Dionne (traded him away just as he was hitting his prime)
Florida Panthers -
Montréal Canadiens – Jocelyn Thibault (see Jimmy Carson above for rationale).
Ottawa Senators – Alexandre Daigle
Tampa Bay Lightning –
Toronto Maple Leafs – Andrew Raycroft
Carolina Hurricanes –
Columbus Blue Jackets – Jeff Carter
New Jersey Devils – Ilya Kovalchuk
New York Islanders – Rick DiPietro
New York Rangers – Bobby Holik? (Many to choose from here thanks to Sather)
Philadelphia Flyers – Ilya Bryzgalov
Pittsburgh Penguins – Kris Beech (he ain’t got the moves like Jagr)
Washington Capitals – Ovie (there, I said it)
cam neely for vancouver --- traded for what?????
pavel brendal for nyr. ----- cant miss prospect?
10 team Full Keeper Roto League
4C-4LW-4RW-6D-2G-5bench-unlimited farm.
C= eichel,horvat,malkin,kuznetsov
LW= forsberg,kreider,lee,b.tkchuch,hertle,granlund
RW= reinhart,radulov,hoffman,laine,hayes
D= doughty,ghostebehere,karlsson,jones,klefbom,dahlin ,skjei
G= price,murray,grubauer,georgiev,ullmark,samsonov
under250gp=nichushkin,tuch,mathesson,marino,pujuja rvi,hosang,terry,andersson,j.hughes,patrik,crouse, zadina,podkolzin,k.miller,nedeljkovic,kravtsov,hay ton
--G,A,P,PPP,SHP,GWG,PIMS,+/-,SOG,hits,FOW,blks-Wins,GAA,SV%,saves,SO
I would put Heatley in Atlanta...
Vladimir Malakhov was a good embarrassment as a Hab too. My pick would be Rejean Houle if you could add managers to the list.
Yashin should probably be there for the Islanders..(still paying him...) More than DiPietro in my mind, as for DiPietro it was less intentional.
Blades of Steel
9 Team Full Keeper - Pts Only (G,A,W,SO)
Crosby, Wheeler, Bergeron, Forsberg, Connor, Kopitar, E.Lindholm, Pastrnak, DeBrincat, Fiala
Jones, Klingberg, Hamilton, Theodore, Letang
Saros, Shesterkin
Garland, Vrana, Bjorkstrand, Verhaege, Backstrom, Karlsson, Perunovich, Spurgeon, Pulock, Hellebuyck
Montreal should be Gomez! lol
Carolina - Cullen? They gave up Ronnie Franchise for what they thought was a 90-point player
LA - yellow uniforms...Glenn Healy?
SJ - Falloon?
The Best Fantasy Hockey Site
15-Team Keeper, points only, best 12 fwd, 4 dman, 2 G count. Playoffs count.
F - T. Thompson, Thomas, Nylander, Tarasenko, Arvidsson, Guentzel, Fiala, Quinn, Mittelstadt, Hagel, Zacha, Roslovic, Berggren, Brink, Ostlund
G - Kahkonen, Vejmelka, L. Thompson, Levi, Comrie
D - Hronek, Morrissey, Lundkvist, Girard, Brannstrom, Rathbone, Hanifin, Severson, Durzi
Falloon!
Yes.
Oh, Atlanta/Winnipeg.
This guy:
Worst #1 draft pick ever???
Also known for the worst shot in NHL history... well it wasn't a shot... on net:
Oh wow. I thought I had struck gold with Falloon's rookie card!
If we can do management decisions I’d say NJ’s would be arena location.
Florida - petr Taticek? He was a 9t overall. Semin, Cam Ward, Keith, Steen all picked after
Anaheim – this jersey
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll
I know I'm gonna get heat for this, but:
St Louis Blues: Wayne Gretzky
They gave up three prospects a first rounder and a fifth rounder for him.
He played 18 games as a Blue and then signed with the Rangers.
18 Team Full Keeper. Total points.
Start 10 F, 3 D, 1 UTIL, 1 G
3 Points: SHO, 2 Points: G, PPA, SHG, SHA, W, 1 Point: A, PPG, GWG, .25 Points: BLK, .1 Points: FOW, SOG, SV, .15 Points: HIT, -.05 Points: FOL, -.15 Points: GA
Forwards: Backstrom, Barre-Boulet, Beauvillier, Caufield, Dickinson, Donato, Donskoi, Gourde, Greenway, Horvat, Kase, Keller, Kuznetsov, MacKinnon, Marchessault, J. T. Miller, Sikura, Tarasenko, Zegras
Defense: Barrie, Brannstrom, Cholowski, Honka, Matheson, Pulock, Shattenkirk
Goal: Dubnyk, Jarry, Markstrom, Merzlikins
2014-15, 2016-17 MHL Champions!
Montreal Canadiens - Doug Wickenheiser (versus drafting local phenom Denis Savard withthe first overall pick)
Vancouver Canucks - Cam Neely (the answer is 100% Neely)
Arizona Coyotes/1st Winnipeg Jets – Teemu Selanne (getting rid of him for Oleg Tverdovsky & Chad Kilger)
New York Islanders - Yashin (willingly traded traded Chara AND Spezza to get him, then handed him that ridiculous contract and put the C on his chest)
Chicago Blackhawks - Phil Esposito (considered one the most lopsided trades in NHL history)
Columbus - Steve Mason
Carolina Hurricanes - Keith Primeau
or today, Eric Staal? LOL works hard when he wants to, lazy POS
30 team league, DYNASTY
Hartford Whalers
GO CANES
Detroit - TIE Bernie Federko/Tony McKegney.
(the ridiculouslessly awful return they got for Adam Oates)