Good pick with Vachon. Reading that headline I thought "did the Kings make a big run for the cup in 1975? I never heard of that".
No, they didn't. They lost in the first round to the Leafs. Why that warrants an SI cover (playing the Habs) is beyond me.
It was a team of castoffs though. Dan Maloney, Butch Goring and a couple others are the only recognizable names. Good old Sheldon Kanegeisser there had a decent career but I've never even heard the guy's name.
Well since it doesn't look like Rouge is coming back to pick I guess that I am up.
The Beantown Bruins are proud to select our #4 Center, Ken Linesman
Linseman began the 1978–79 season with the Maine Mariners of the AHL, before getting called up by the Flyers. He finished the season in Philadelphia, earning 25 points (5G-20A) in 30 games. Linseman spent the entire 1979–80 season with the Flyers, getting 79 points in 80 games. 1981–82 turned out to be the best season of Linseman career, as he scored a career high 92 points (24G-68A) in 79 games, and had 275 PIM, which was 7th highest in the NHL. On August 19, 1982, the Flyers traded Linseman, along with Greg Adams and Philadelphia's 1st and 3rd round picks in 1983 to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for Mark Howe and Hartford's 3rd round pick in 1983. The Whalers then swapped Linseman to the Edmonton Oilers with Dan Nachbaur for Risto Siltanen and Brent Loney.
With the Oilers in 1982–83, Linseman had 75 points (33G-42A) in 72 games, and helped the Oilers to the Stanley Cup finals with 14 points (6G-8A) in 16 post-season games. In 1983–84, Linseman had 67 points (18G-49A) in 75 games, and helped the Oilers win the Stanley Cup with 14 points (10G-4A) in 19 games. He scored an NHL record 3 series clinching goals, since tied by Martin Gelinas of the Calgary Flames in 2004. After winning the Stanley Cup, Linseman found himself on the move as the Oilers dealt him to the Boston Bruins for Mike Krushelnyski on June 21, 1984.
Linseman's had a solid 1984–85 season, with 74 points (25G-49A) in 74 games, and added 10 points (4G-6A) in 5 playoff games. Injuries held Linseman to 64 games in 1985–86, but he scored 81 points (23G-58A), and in 3 playoff games, had 1 assist. His production fell in 1986–87, as he was held again to 64 games, getting 49 points (15G-34A), and in 4 playoff games, had 2 points (1G-1A). In 1987–88, Linseman was healthy again, and saw his point total increase, getting 74 points (29G-45A) in 77 games, and helped the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Finals, earning 25 points (11G-14A) in 23 playoff games. Linseman had a productive 1988–89 season, as he got 72 points (27G-45A) in 78 games, however a late season injury prevented him from playing in any playoff games. In 1989–90, Linseman began the season with Boston, playing in 32 games and getting 22 points (6G-16A). He was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers on January 16, 1990 in exchange for Dave Poulin. Linseman then played 29 games with the Flyers, getting 14 points (5G-9A) as the team failed to make the playoffs.
Kenny picked up the nickname "The Rat" both by his appearance and the way he played. Kenny had a great talent for aggitating the opposing team to a high level of fustration.
The speedy Geoff Courtnall was signed by the Boston Bruins of the NHL as an undraftedfree agent on 6 July1983. He played for the Bruins from the 1983-84 NHL season to 8 March1988 when he was traded along with Bill Ranford to the Edmonton Oilers for Andy Moog. While in Edmonton He helped the Oilers win the 1988 Stanley Cup Championship. Barely four months later, the Oilers traded Courtnall to the Washington Capitals for Greg C. Adams, who was also from Duncan, British Columbia. After two seasons in Washington, he was traded to the St. Louis Blues for Mike Lalor and Peter Zezel. Courtnall's first nine seasons were spent bouncing between five NHL clubs and two AHL clubs, the Hershey Bears and Moncton Golden Flames.
After less than a season in St. Louis he was sent at the trading deadline to the Vancouver Canucks in a blockbuster trade. Going to Vancouver were Robert Dirk, Sergio Momesso, Cliff Ronning, and future considerations. Going to St. Louis were Garth Butcher and Dan Quinn. This trade marked a major turning point for the Canucks as these players were among the core players that would lead the Canucks on their Cinderella run to the Stanley Cup Finals in 1994. Courtnall would only play one more season in Vancouver after the Cup run of '94 as he went back to the St. Louis Blues for the start of the 1995-96 season. He scored a lot of goals for the Blues but he suffered several concussions. After sitting out the last half of the 1998-1999 season with a concussion he returned to the lineup the next season. But only a few games in he went down again with a concussion, this time for the last time. Lingering effects of Post Concussion Syndrome forced Courtnall to retire after the 1999-2000 season.
Cyclones are pleased to make the steal of the draft, Bill Cowley as their third Center.
Bill "Cowboy" Cowley was one of the top playmaking forwards in NHL history - three times in his 13-year career he led the NHL in assists. He always seemed to know where his linemates were positioned. An unselfish player who always aimed to set up a colleague for a goal before taking a shot himself, and he rarely jeopardized his team's fortunes by taking a penalty. Because of his ability to see the whole ice, he was arguably the Wayne Gretzky of his era.
He first drew attention to himself with his exemplary play with the Primrose and Shamrocks clubs in the Ottawa City Junior League from 1930 to 1932. He then graduated to the Shamrocks' senior team in 1932-33, and he proved he could handle the tougher competition. Cowley first put up big numbers with the Halifax Wolverines of the Maritime Senior Hockey League in 1933-34, dominating the scoring race with 25 goals and 50 points in 38 games.
In 1934-35 he embarked on an NHL career with the St. Louis Eagles, who had just relocated from Ottawa. Cowley is the only Hall of Fame player to have begun his career with this club. When the team folded prior to the next season, Cowley was claimed by the Boston Bruins in a dispersal draft. The Bruins, a team stacked with experienced forwards, originally used him as a left winger, but his swift skating and precise passes forced them to move him to center.
Cowley broke through in 1937-38 with 39 points and selection to the NHL First All-Star Team. The following season, he recorded a league-high 34 assists. His passing and puck-handling wizardry helped the powerful Bruins squad win the second Stanley Cup in franchise history that year. He formed a lethal combination with Mel "Sudden Death" Hill, who scored an NHL-record three overtime game-winners in the semifinals against the Rangers. Each tally was the result of Cowley's playmaking artistry. Two years later in 1940-41, Cowley won the NHL scoring championship and helped the Bruins win their second Cup in three years.
For a short time he formed the revered Three Gun Line with Roy Conacher and Eddie Wiseman. Cowboy Cowley again topped the NHL in assists in 1940-41 and 1942-43, registering 45 in each year. His 1941 output, recorded during a 48-game schedule, represented a new league standard. After each of these seasons Cowley was awarded the Hart Trophy and placed on the NHL First All-Star Team. He earned another First-Team selection - the fourth of his career - in 1944 after scoring a career-high 30 goals, despite missing 12 games with an injury. Before the injury Cowley held a comfortable lead in the points race, and although he ended up in seventh place - Herbie Cain won the title with 82 points - his total of 71 points in 36 games hints strongly at what might have been.
Cowley played with the Bruins until the end of the 1946-47 season, and on February 12 of that season he surpassed Syd Howe as the NHL's career point leader. This mark stood for five years until Elmer Lach overtook him. Along the way, Cowley recorded at least 30 assists on five occasions. In 549 regular-season matches he accumulated 548 points and was one of the game's most reliable producers.
Cowley was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1968.
2 Harts, Led the league in scoring once, scored at a point a game for his career, 4 time 1st all-star team, once 2nd all-star team, hall of famer in the 20th round...ladies and gentlemen, the steal of the draft.
Team Cylones recap:
Center-1: Stan Mikita (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 6x1st team, 2x2nd team, 2x Bying, Patrick, HHOF)
Center-2: Guy Carbonneau (3x Selke, and 2x runner-up)
Center-3: Bill Cowley (Art Ross, 2xHart, 4x1st team, 1x2nd team, HHOF)
Right Wing-1: Teemu Selanne (Richard, Calder, Masterton, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team)
Right Wing-2: Boom Boom Geoffrion (2xArt Ross, Hart, Calder, 1x1st team, 2x2nd team, HHOF)
Right Wing-3: Bill Cook (2xArt Ross, 2xGoals lead, 3x1st team, 1x2nd team, HHOF)
Right Wing-4: Reggie Leach (Conn Smythe, Goals lead, 2nd team, 2 records)
Left Wing-1: Bobby Hull (2xHart, 3xArt Ross, 10x1st team, 2x2nd team, Patrick, HHOF)
Left Wing-2: Michel Goulet (3xBying, 3x1st team, 2x2nd team, HHOF)
Left Wing-3: John Leclair (2x +/- lead, 2x1st team, 3x2nd team)
Left Wing-4: Doug Bentley (Art Ross, 2x led in goals, 3x 1st team, 1x 2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-1: Dit Clapper (3x1st team, 3x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-2: Pierre Pilote (3xNorris, 5x1st team, 3x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-3: Mark Howe (3xNorris runner-up, 3x1st team, 1x +/- lead)
Defence-4: Earl Seibert (4x1st team, 6x2nd team, HHOF)
Defence-5: Jacques Laperriere (Norris, Calder, 2x1st team, 2x2nd team, 1x +/- lead, HHOF)
Defence-6: Vladimir Konstantinov (Norris finalist, 1x2nd team, Soviet National Team Captain)
Goalie-1: Dominik Hasek (2xHart, 2xPearson, 6xVezina, 3xJennings, 5x1st team)
Coach: Brian Kilrea (2 Memorial Cups, 5 Memorial Cup Finals, 33 years coaching, 1200+ wins, 6 coach of the year awards, HHOF)
Arena: Maple Leaf Gardens
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For our final left winger, I'd like to select Vsevold Bobrov
PROFILE:
Vsevolod Bobrov (1922-1979),
USSR Merited Sports Master (ZMS SSSR, 1948),
USSR Merited Sports Coach (ZTR SSSR, 1967),
IIHF Hall of Fame (1997, players category).
Player's Career:
- Played as a Left Wing with the Red Army clubs (CDKA, CDSA, CSK MO, VVS) and scored 243 goals in 130 games in the USSR Elite Hockey League in 1947-1957
- USSR Gold 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1955, 1956
- USSR Elite League Scoring Leader in 1948, 1951, 1952.
- World Championship Gold in 1954, 1956
- European Championship in 1954-1956
- Olympics Gold in 1956
- WC Best Forward (1954)
- WC Scoring Leader (1957)
- In Team USSR, scored 91 goals in 57 games
- Besides hockey, played in the USSR Soccer and Bandy Elite Leagues.
Coaching Career:
- VVS Head Coach in 1951-1953
- Spartak Moscow Head Coach in 1964-1967
- USSR Gold in 1967
- Team USSR Head Coach in 1972-1974
- WC Gold in 1973-1974
- European Championship Gold in 1973-1974
- Head Coach of VVS, CSKA, Chernomorets, Kairat in soccer.
Vsevolod (Seva) BOBROV is a legend of Russian sports. To say that he was "only" a great hockey athlete is to mention just a part of the phenomenon of Bobrov. His world class performance as a star player in soccer, bandy and hockey arguably makes him one of the top sports personalities in the Soviet history. For people in Russia in the 1940's and 1950's, Bobrov was a household name. His talent, style and success made him the major attraction to the sports arena of that time. He was the only person who was the captain of the national team in both soccer and hockey.
Bobrov was a pioneer of the Russian hockey. He was a star of the first Soviet Championships and averaged well above one goal per game in these tournaments. In 1954, the Soviet hockey team made its smashing international debut at the World Championship in Stockholm. Led by its legendary captain Bobrov, the team won the gold and Bobrov earned the Best Forward Award. Bobrov was already 32 at that time. In 1956, Bobrov and Team USSR won the Olympics. His age and many career-ending injuries didn't allow him to enjoy too many seasons with the Soviet team on the international arena.
It's a common observation that a very few outstanding sportsmen manage to become outstanding coaches. Bobrov became a great soccer and hockey coach. Ironically for a person who played most of his career with the Red Army clubs, Bobrov became a coach of the CSKA's rivalry. He brought the Moscow Spartak to several National Championships in the years when it was unthinkable to challenge the Red Army club. Alexander Yakushev, Vladimir Shadrin, Yevgeny Zimin, Alexaner Martyniuk - those are just a few Team USSR players that graduated from Bobrov's Spartak.
Bobrov was appointed the head coach of the national team when his former linemate, legendary Anatoly Tarasov, made a sensational decision to retire from the Team USSR after the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo. Unlike his famous predecessor, Bobrov was not a dictatorial coach. A former player with strong individual skills, he preferred to neither force players into a strict hockey schema nor intimidate them with the mastery of psychological trickery used quiet often by Tarasov. As noted by eyewitnesses, Bobrov always treated his players with respect and supported their independent thinking.
The reason of his departure from coaching Team USSR in 1974 remains a mystery of the Soviet hockey. Coaches usually resign after a major competition flop. Bobrov left after winning World Championship in Finland. The story says that Team USSR was losing to Czechoslovakia. In the second intermission, the top Soviet official entered the locker room where Bobrov was outlining the plan of a comeback in the third period. Bobrov turned to the intruder and just said:
"Close the door. From the outside, please."
The official turned red and left the room. Team USSR won. Bobrov had to go too. Disobedience to the system could not be forgiven even to the champions.
:: IIHF Awards
Best Scorer (Goals) 1956
Best Scorer (Goals) 1957
Best Forward 1954
:: USSR Awards
Best Scorer (Goals) 1948
Best Scorer (Goals) 1951
Best Scorer (Goals) 1952
All Stars 1948
All Stars 1950
All Stars 1951
All Stars 1952
All Stars 1954
All Stars 1955
All Stars 1956
All Stars 1957
I know I'm breaking with my Modern Era motif, but it's Paul Fricken Henderson.
outside of the summit series, his career was rather non descript, but he did score possibly the biggest and most certainly the most well known goal in canadian hockey history
legends of hockey has him listed as a RW as well, so Im pretty sure youre safe placing him on that side
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outside of the summit series, his career was rather non descript, but he did score possibly the biggest and most certainly the most well known goal in canadian hockey history
legends of hockey has him listed as a RW as well, so Im pretty sure youre safe placing him on that side
I've always wondered something. If his career was so non descript and people knock his carerr other than the goal itself, how did he get onto Team Canada in the first place!?
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I've always wondered something. If his career was so non descript and people knock his carerr other than the goal itself, how did he get onto Team Canada in the first place!?
The triumph that stands out in Henderson's career is from the early 1970s. Coming off his 38-goal performance in 1971-72, the speedy winger was deemed a potential asset on the Canadian squad being that was assembled for the upcoming Summit Series against the Soviets. Team Canada coaches Harry Sinden and John Ferguson believed that Henderson would add depth and stability to their squad. Nobody on either team could have anticipated what would transpire during the series.
The triumph that stands out in Henderson's career is from the early 1970s. Coming off his 38-goal performance in 1971-72, the speedy winger was deemed a potential asset on the Canadian squad being that was assembled for the upcoming Summit Series against the Soviets. Team Canada coaches Harry Sinden and John Ferguson believed that Henderson would add depth and stability to their squad. Nobody on either team could have anticipated what would transpire during the series.
He might've had a better career had he not spent 5 years in the WHA, but the fact is he only had that one year where he had over 30 goals (and two seasons with exactly 30 goals) and only had one season where he had as many as 60 pts. He is a hockey icon because of one goal.
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I won't be able to go till after work today...gotta do some digging to figure out who to choose!....so in the meantime, someone can go ahead of me if they want to keep the picks moving.
I don't know about that. He had 6 seasons of 20+ goals while in the NHL. The WHA wasn't that bad a league as a lot of good NHL players jumped to the rival league for the money. In fact one the best lines ever in hockey was in the WHA.... Bobby Hull, Ulf Nilsson and Anders Hedberg of the Winnipeg Jets.
True the WHA attracted some top notch players, but it also ran with a bunch of hasbeens and neverwillbes who could not make it in the NHL. There was a huge drop off from the top 3 or 4 players on each team to the rest of their team mates.
Here are all the guys that were the leading scorer for the WHA at one point or another:
Andre Lacroix - .61 ptsPG in NHL, 1.45 in WHA
Marc Tardif - .77 in NHL, 1.49 n WHA
Mike Walton - .76 in NHL, 1.33 in WHA
The only one on the list to have some similar success in the NHL was Real Cloutier - 1.09 in the NHL, 1.53 in WHA
How about this...leading scorers in the first WHA season:
Lacroix, Ron Ward, Danny Lawson, Bobby Hull, Norm Beaudoin, Tom Webster, Chris Bordeleau, Terry Caffery, Gord Labossiere, and Wayne Carleton. If you are scratching your head on most of those names (other than Hull of course), it's because they could not star in the NHL, but they flourished against weak players in the WHA.
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True the WHA attracted some top notch players, but it also ran with a bunch of hasbeens and neverwillbes who could not make it in the NHL. There was a huge drop off from the top 3 or 4 players on each team to the rest of their team mates.
Here are all the guys that were the leading scorer for the WHA at one point or another:
Andre Lacroix - .61 ptsPG in NHL, 1.45 in WHA
Marc Tardif - .77 in NHL, 1.49 n WHA
Mike Walton - .76 in NHL, 1.33 in WHA
The only one on the list to have some similar success in the NHL was Real Cloutier - 1.09 in the NHL, 1.53 in WHA
How about this...leading scorers in the first WHA season:
Lacroix, Ron Ward, Danny Lawson, Bobby Hull, Norm Beaudoin, Tom Webster, Chris Bordeleau, Terry Caffery, Gord Labossiere, and Wayne Carleton. If you are scratching your head on most of those names (other than Hull of course), it's because they could not star in the NHL, but they flourished against weak players in the WHA.
You are forgetting players like Gerry Cheevers, Frank Mahovolich, Johnny Mckenzie, Dave Dryden, Ted Green, Dave Keon, Pat Stapleton, Rejean Houle etc. Many never played past the end of the WHA but were still good players when the originaly signed on with the rival league. A league that lasted 7 years.
Then there's all the Young Stars that went on to have sucessful NHL careers. Mark Howe, John Tonelli, Mark Napier, Kent Nilsson, Mike Rogers, Ken Linseman, Rick Vaive, Michel Goulet, Craig Hartsburg, Rob Ramage, Pat Riggin, Mike Gartner, Pekka Rautakalio. Forgot about Gretzky and Messier
A collection of players from that league took on the Russians in 74. A similar team the NHL players had trouble beating in 72. A series that was a lot closer than what the final numbers stated.
