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Richard Martin. He was a 2 time 50 goal scorer who played on the famed French Connection Line in Buffalo with Gilbert Perreault and Rene Robert. Had 701 points in 685 games.
Neil Broten and Bobby Smith. Both played in relative obscurity in Minnesota and put up great numbers.
Smith was nearly PPG and will be more remembered as a Hab but he played more games for Minny. I think Broten was overshadowed by Modano, Bellows and Ciccarelli.
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Charlie Simmer. 711 points in a pretty short 712 game career, including back to back 56 goal and 100+ point seasons. Hall of fame caliber peak and a career cut short by injuries it would seem.
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Guy Chouinard, one of the Flames early playmakers. 575pt in 578 games and all but 64 of those games played in Atlanta or Calgary silks. Lanny doesn’t have a 66 goal season in 82-83 without all of Guy’s assists.
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Mike Gartner scored over 700 goals including 17 seasons of 30+ (15 of them consecutively). He was one of the fastest skaters in the league and finished with over1300 points.
His stats make him seem over qualified for this topic, but many who've scored less than him seem to get more attention than Gartner as an all time great.
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A couple spectacular seasons in the early 80's with Philly and Boston, for example in '82-83 with Boston: "played in 62 games and posting a 40–11–9 record with 8 shutouts and a decade-best 2.36 GAA." (from Wikipedia). Vezina winner, played a key role in the 1984 Canada Cup. Took the Flyers to the Cup final but fell short. A historical victim of his own inconsistency and lack of finals success.
The main reason I thought of him is that I know someone who lives in his old house from the early 80's, which is kind of cool. Otherwise he would have been lost to my memory-- much like the hockey cards of my childhood on which I can see the faces of so many other players in this thread.
I'll never forget Pete Peeters because he and my dad worked together as accountants for the firm Coopers and Lybrand.
NHL contracts weren't what they are these days.
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Ogrodnick, holy crap. Pure goal scorer toiling for the pre-Yzerman 80s Red Wings, when they lost almost every game. Had 40 and 50 goal seasons basically all by himself. Played a couple seasons with Yzerman and was traded.
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If just talking on ice performance, I feel like Dany Heatley would fit this description. No one ever talks about him anymore, but at his peak, guy was a 100+ point player.
Charlie Simmer. 711 points in a pretty short 712 game career, including back to back 56 goal and 100+ point seasons. Hall of fame caliber peak and a career cut short by injuries it would seem.
Most Flames fans super familiar write Simmer.
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