Team He Shoots....He Scooooores!!! is proud to select as it's 3rd line centre, Jeremy Roenick.
Love him or hate him, JR brings personality and controversy where ever he goes - and the skills & stats to back up the chatter. JR loves the game, loves the fans and just loves life. He has his own website setup to interact with his fans and it's actually kind of interesting - check out RoenickLife to read JR's blog and more!
so i saw that its getting close to my pick so was taking a look at the draft board and I somehow ended up with Alex Delvecchio...
now I certainly dont mind, but Windom might object
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Quick pick so Aeneas can go ahead. I'll dress this up right after.
For our 3rd Right Winger, Team Marleau! Hammered! selects Rod Gilbert 11th in all-time scoring, makes me a happy GM
hmmm...I doubt it. More like 66th all-time. 1st in Ranger history, I think. But many more players with more points than Gilbert in NHL history. Even Pierre Turgeon scored more than Gilbert!
Still, a good pick regardless of the factual error.
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Reason: spelling
In selecting this player and looking up some info, I had totally forgotten that he played for the Oilers at the very tail end of his career. Sorry for that.
I select a man who led the league in goal scoring at a time when only Bossy did that, was a tough player at a very small size, once played for the Calgary Centennials....Danny Gare.
Team "Give Blood...play hockey" needed a little grit, and that's exactly what Gare brings to the table.
--- Regular Season --- ---- Playoffs ----
Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
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1971-72 Calgary Centennials WCHL 56 10 17 27 15
1972-73 Calgary Centennials WCHL 65 45 43 88 107
1973-74 Calgary Centennials WCHL 65 68 59 127 238
1974-75 Buffalo Sabres NHL 78 31 31 62 75 17 7 6 13 19
1975-76 Buffalo Sabres NHL 79 50 23 73 129 9 5 2 7 21
1976-77 Buffalo Sabres NHL 35 11 15 26 73 4 0 0 0 18
1977-78 Buffalo Sabres NHL 69 39 38 77 95 8 4 6 10 37
1978-79 Buffalo Sabres NHL 71 27 40 67 90 3 0 0 0 9
1979-80 Buffalo Sabres NHL 76 56 33 89 90 14 4 7 11 35
1980-81 Buffalo Sabres NHL 73 46 39 85 109 3 3 0 3 8
1981-82 Buffalo Sabres NHL 22 7 14 21 25 -- -- -- -- --
1981-82 Detroit Red Wings NHL 36 13 9 22 74 -- -- -- -- --
1982-83 Detroit Red Wings NHL 79 26 35 61 107 -- -- -- -- --
1983-84 Detroit Red Wings NHL 63 13 13 26 147 4 2 0 2 38
1984-85 Detroit Red Wings NHL 71 27 29 56 163 2 0 0 0 10
1985-86 Detroit Red Wings NHL 57 7 9 16 102 -- -- -- -- --
1986-87 Edmonton Oilers NHL 18 1 3 4 6 -- -- -- -- --
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NHL Totals 827 354 331 685 1
When people say small guys have heart and play tough, those guys probably dont fight some of the toughest guys of their era. Gare fought Gillies, Nystrom, Jonathan, Bridgman, etc. Never one to back down. But he could also put the puck in the net.
Team Toe blake is pleased to select, as their coach, Dick Irvin Sr.
James Dickinson "Dick" Irvin (Sr.) (July 19, 1892 – May 15, 1957) was a Canadianice hockeyplayer and coach in the National Hockey League.
Born in Hamilton, Ontario,[1] Irvin was one of the greatest players of his day, balancing a torrid slapshot and tough style with gentlemanly play. He played junior and senior amateur hockey in Winnipeg, Manitoba, winning the Allan Cup in 1915 with the Winnipeg Monarchs. He began his professional career in 1916 with the Portland Rosebuds of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and was the fourth leading scoring rookie tallying 35 goals. Following a brief stint in the Canadian Army, he was reinstated as an amateur, but turned professional again in 1921 with the Regina Capitals of the Western Canada Hockey League. In 1926, at age 34, he entered the NHL, signed by the newly formed Chicago Black Hawks. Irvin was made the team's first captain, and had an impressive campaign, finishing second in the league in scoring. In their first season, the Black Hawks led all NHL teams in scoring, led by Irvin and Babe Dye. Irvin's second season turned to tragedy as he fractured his skull, which led to retirement after the 1928-29 season. The Hawks had finished with the worst record in the NHL in both of his last two seasons as a player.
Irvin was hired as head coach of the Black Hawks in 1930, and in his first season behind the bench led the team to 24 wins, 17 losses and 3 ties. Upon seeing his success as a coach, Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe convinced Irvin to coach the Leafs. In his first season coaching the Leafs (the first in the brand-new Maple Leaf Gardens), he achieved immediate success by winning the Stanley Cup. However, Irvin was unable to deliver another Cup for the Leafs during his time as coach, despite taking them to the finals six more times.
Smythe soon felt that Irvin had taken the Leafs as far as he could and Irvin resigned in 1940. Tommy Gorman went and picked him up and drove him to Montreal to become coach of the then-moribund Montreal Canadiens.[2] It was there that Irvin found his greatest success, leading the Habs to three Cups in six finals. Helped by star players Elmer Lach, Doug Harvey, goalie Bill Durnan and a young Maurice Richard, the Canadiens were just beginning to blossom as an NHL dynasty.
Irvin, however, came under fire for encouraging "goon" tactics, especially after Montreal fans rioted in protest of Richard's suspension for the 1955 playoffs. He was already well known for looking the other way when stick-swinging duels broke out in practices.[3] Although they made it to the finals (losing to the Detroit Red Wings), internal pressure forced Irvin to step down.
He returned to the Black Hawks as head coach for the 1955-56 season, taking the reins of a moribund team that had only made the playoffs once in the past 10 years and finished last in the past two seasons. Irvin was unable to turn the team's fortunes around, and the Black Hawks again ended the year in last place, despite the emergence of Ed Litzenberger as a scoring star. Irvin was to coach the Black Hawks again in 1956-57, but he became so ill with bone cancer that he had to retire before the season began. He died a few months later at age 64.
A year later, Irvin was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame. His coaching career included four Stanley Cups with 692 regular season wins, results surpassed only by Al Arbour and Scotty Bowman.
His son, Dick Irvin, Jr., is a noted Canadian television sports announcer
Allan Cup Championship (1915) Stanley Cup Championships (1932 - Toronto, 1944, 1946, & 1953 - Montreal)
Lost in the finals a record 12 times as a Coach (1931 - Chicago, 1933-35-36-38-39-40 - Toronto, 1947-51-52-54-55 - Montreal) NHL First All-Star Team Coach (1944, 1945, & 1946) NHL Second All-Star Team Coach (1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, & 1941)
Inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame and Museum in 1983
Selected to Manitoba's All-Century First All-Star Team and named Coach of the Century
“Honoured Member” of the Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame
Verbeek was selected 43rd overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He helped the Devils to their first playoff berth in the 1987-88 season, when he scored a club record 46 goals during the regular season.
After the 1988-89 season, the Devils traded him to the Hartford Whalers (now the Carolina Hurricanes). In his first season, he led the team in goal scoring and in his second he was named team MVP. In 1991, he made the All-Star team for the first time and in the following season, Verbeek was named the Whalers captain. After a short stint with the Rangers, he signed with the Dallas Stars as a free agent[1], where he won his first Stanley Cup in 1999.
During the 1999-2000 season, he signed with the Detroit Red Wings. In Detroit, he passed the 1,000-point mark, scored his 500th goal, and moved into the top 25 in career goal scoring before returning to Dallas for his final NHL season in 2001-02. Verbeek is the only player in NHL history to total over 500 career goals and 2500 career penalty minutes
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Playing his entire NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens, Lemaire won the Stanley Cup a remarkable eight times: 1968, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979. He is one of only six players to have scored two Stanley Cup winning goals. A model of consistency, Lemaire scored at least 20 goals in each of his 12 seasons. He retired from the NHL after the 1978–79 season. In 853 career NHL games, he recorded 366 goals and 469 assists for a total of 835 points.
Verbeek is a good pick. A guy from back home was drafted by the Whalers. He figured he'd impress management by fighting the much smaller Verbeek. Oops.
Richard (Rick) Middleton (born December 4, 1953, in Toronto, Ontario) is a former professional ice hockey player for the NHLNew York Rangers and Boston Bruins.
A right wing, Middleton was drafted in the 1st round, 14th overall, by the Rangers in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft after a glittering junior career with the Oshawa Generals in which he led his league in scoring his final year and was named to the league's Second All-Star Team. He spent the 1973–74 season with the Rangers' farm team, the AHLProvidence Reds, earning rookie of the year honors and being named to the AHL's First All-Star Team.
He made the big club during the 1974–75 season, and despite suffering injuries that restricted him to 47 games, scored 22 goals in that limited time. The following season was not as spectacular, as he scored 24 goals in 77 games while showing defensive deficiencies. Following the 1975–76 season, the Rangers traded Middleton to the Boston Bruins for veteran winger Ken Hodge.
It was one of the most one-sided deals in hockey history. Hodge played only a single season more before his career ended, while Middleton became a great star in Boston, scoring a hat trick in his first game as a Bruin and nearly nine hundred points in a Bruins uniform over the next twelve years. Generally paired with centre Barry Pederson, "Nifty" had five straight seasons of at least forty goals and ninety points and led the Bruins to perennial glittering records. His leadership was apparent in being named co-captain (with Ray Bourque) to succeed Terry O'Reilly in 1985, a position he held until he retired.
His best season was the 1981–82 season, during which Middleton scored a career high 51 goals, won the Lady Byng Trophy for excellence and sportsmanship, and was named to the NHL's Second All-Star Team. The following season he led the Bruins to the league's best regular season record, and set still unbroken records that year for the most points scored in the playoffs by a player not advancing to the finals (33) and for a single playoff series (19, in the quarterfinals against Buffalo). His 105 points in the 1983–84 season tied Ken Hodge's team record for most points scored in a season by a right winger, and remains unbroken.
Middleton also starred in international play, being named to play for Team Canada in the Canada Cup in 1981 and 1984. Teamed on a line with Wayne Gretzky and Michel Goulet in the 1984 series, he scored four goals and four assists in seven games.
Middleton played in the NHL All-Star Game in 1981, 1982 and 1984. He retired with 448 goals and 540 assists for 988 points in 1005 games, and added 100 points in 114 playoff games. He no longer is currently a studio analyst for Bruins telecasts on NESN.
I think the last line of that Wiki article is pretty funny.
You're dead! I just spent 10 minutes staring at the draft board wondering WTF you were talking about!
you should know better than to take anything that FanI(s)80 says at face value...he is a trouble maker afterall
and he did select Maaaaaaaaaaatlock in the TV draft
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