Who is the most boring generic random player that has ever played for the Canucks ?

[Blue]

What names come to mind ?

 

I'll go first

 

Brandon McMillan 

 

[Jeremy Hronek]

Alexander Semak?

Mark Wotton?

 

Edited December 9, 2023 by Jeremy Hronek

[Jess]

Kris Beech

 

[Sophomore Jinx]

Peter Schaefer. Used to sit on the bench looking completely disinterested, with that weird, impossible curve in his stick blade.

 

[Blue]

4 minutes ago, -AJ- said:

Kris Beech

 

 

I remember those days. He was put on waivers and claimed by 3 or 4 different teams all in a week or 2

[Blue]

This guy shouldn't count because he was so uniquely bad and not merely average or generic. He was so bad that Nonis had to buy him out in his 2nd year on a 1 million dollar deal.

 

Marc Chouinard 

 

[Blue]

5 minutes ago, Sophomore Jinx said:

Peter Schaefer. Used to sit on the bench looking completely disinterested, with that weird, impossible curve in his stick blade.

 

 

That's a good one. He played 16 games in 2011 according to DB and I did not recognize him or his name at all.

[Jess]

3 minutes ago, Blue said:

This guy shouldn't count because he was so uniquely bad and not merely average or generic. He was so bad that Nonis had to buy him out in his 2nd year on a 1 million dollar deal.

 

Marc Chouinard 

 

 

Didn't he score the first goal of the season like three or four times in a row?

[Sophomore Jinx]

1 minute ago, -AJ- said:

 

Didn't he score the first goal of the season like three or four times in a row?

Yup, I remember that too. What a weird revolving cast of characters we had in those days.

[Snoop Hogg]

Eric Weinrich

[Hogs and Podz]

Gotta be Steve Bernier... So much hype.  Was never exciting

Or....

Another one maybe even less exceptional...

Taylor Pyatt

[Blue]

7 minutes ago, Sophomore Jinx said:

Yup, I remember that too. What a weird revolving cast of characters we had in those days.

Hockey DB says he played just 1 season. 2006

[Blue]

Yann Sauve 

 

[Guest]

Byron Ritchie and Matt Pettinger

[Blue]

4 minutes ago, Hogs and Podz said:

 

Taylor Pyatt

That was peak Nonis malaise era

[Curmudgeon]

Eddie Hatoum. Claimed in the expansion draft from Detroit in June 1970. Played 26 games as a Canuck, scoring one goal and adding three assists and a -14 +/-. In 1971 he was traded along with Jim Wiste to the Seattle Totems of the minor pro Western Hockey League in exchange for Bobby Schmautz. I have never before found another trade between an NHL team and a minor pro league. Neither Wiste nor Hatoum ever played another NHL game, while Schmautz played 764 games, scoring 271 goals and 283 assists. Hatoum is also the only NHL player born in Beirut, Lebanon.

[Gawdzukes]

 

David Bruce

[bh90]

29 minutes ago, Snoop Hogg said:

Eric Weinrich

That's a great pick

 

I was a teen that season when the Canucks traded for him and Keith Carney and I thought those 2 guys would lead us to the cup

 

Or the year prior when they went and got Sanderson, Slegr and Rucinsky at the deadline.

 

My pick is Darren Langdon. Not sure how this managed to have a 521 game career in the NHL. Most random guy that did nothing 

[Toni Zamboni]

[Jess]

51 minutes ago, Snoop Hogg said:

Eric Weinrich

 

I thought about him, but hard to say that visor is boring.

[Miss Korea]

39 minutes ago, Hogs and Podz said:

 

Gotta be Steve Bernier... So much hype.  Was never exciting

Or....

Another one maybe even less exceptional...

 

Taylor Pyatt

 

Pyatt was a solid player and had a tragic personal story.  Bernier was a pretty funny French guy with infamous hands of stone.

 

Best examples are cheap, low-profile players who were neither good nor bad, and didn't play for long.  Jack Skille.  Philip Larsen.  Marc-André Gragnani, Oscar Fantenberg, Tyler Graovac...

[4petesake]

Josh Holden, 12 OA pick in ‘96 who was a good goal-scorer in junior but never panned out in the NHL. Had 13 pts in 46 games over 3 years then had cups of coffee in Toronto & Carolina before heading off to Europe. Boring because you always hoped for more from him.

 

Random but def not boring - Derek Sanderson.
 

[Iron Man]

45 minutes ago, Toni Zamboni said:

 

Couldn't even score on his first shift. What a scrub.

[Canuck You]

Brah! Not generic but generic but underrated!

 

[Crimson JH]

Bill Sweatt, Linden Vey, Jordan Schroeder, Brandon Gaunce, Niklas Jensen..