[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Bourque's Twin

Don Cherry was a career AHLer.

He played 17 seasons in the AHL, EPHL, and CPHL.

He played 1 game in the NHL during his entire 17 seasons, and it was during his rookie season. It was a playoff game for the Bruins.

He also played 41 games in the WHL (World Hockey League) for the Vancouver Canucks in 1968-69.

That's the definition of a CAREER AHLer who BARELY gets a sniff of the NHL, lol.

The WHL was the Western Hockey League. Here's one of the stars from that league. Guyle Fielder played mostly for Seattle.

He spent 15 dazzling seasons in Seattle, affixing his name to that aforementioned WHL scoring champion trophy nine times. He became the first pro player anywhere to accumulate 100 points in a season, totaling 122 for the Americans during the 1956-57 season.
Fielder, 75, remains one of just three hockey players to surpass 2,000 points in a pro career, later joined by NHL mainstays Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky.

Fielder went to the Red Wings after his groundbreaking 100-point season, but immediately asked to return to the Americans after making the team but playing sparingly. The minimum NHL contract paid the same as he was making in Seattle, $7,500 per season, so there was no financial incentive to stay.
"I said, 'I came here to play hockey, not sit on the bench,' " he said.

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/articl...er-1198428.php

http://www.greatesthockeylegends.com...e-fielder.html

He spent 21 years in the WHL.

http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p...y.php?pid=1666