Andrew McBain (NHL 1983-1994, Canucks 1989-1992) | 9/20 | RW

[Kevin Biestra]

He is largely a forgotten name now but Andrew McBain from the early 1990s (and part of only our second division championship in 1992) was one of the Canucks great attempted reclamation projects like Jimmy Carson, Gary Leeman, etc.  He was part of the trade where we also acquired Dan Quinn and gave away Barry Pederson and Tony Tanti, and ultimately only played 45 games as a Canuck in a few seasons, joining the "cup of coffee" with the Canucks club alongside guys like Glen Cochrane and Blair MacDonald.

 

But he is one of a pretty short list of NHL players to ever have back-to-back seasons with 20 power play goals, having accomplished this with the Winnipeg Jets, where he had 32 and 37 goal seasons, with 63 and then 77 points.  In that one regard, power play goals, he had two of the 100 best seasons in NHL history, and had them consecutively.

 

The guy he was traded for, Tony Tanti, had 20 and 19 PPG seasons for the Canucks at about the same time.

 

He was terrific in the 1988 playoffs for the Jets, tying Dale Hawerchuk for the team lead in scoring with 7 points as the Jets lost in five games in the first round to Wayne Gretzky and the dynasty and eventual Cup champion Oilers.  Winning a single game was also the best any team did against the Oilers in that playoffs, as Edmonton lost only two games en rotue to their Stanley Cup victory.

 

 

Edited November 24 by Kevin Biestra

[Wilbur]

Poor mans Dave Andreychuk?

 

McBain's 45 meaningful Canucks games have him on page 39 on my Canucks binder (45-48 meaningful GP).  He's not the only reclamation hopeful on here (plus 1 that got away in Vaive).

 

Spoiler

 

McBain is currently 309th in all-time Canuck scoring.  Never even close to those gaudy Jets numbers.

 

303	Magnus Arvedson	C	41	8	7	15
...
307	Jordan Schroeder	C	56	6	9	15
...
309	Andrew McBain	RW	45	5	10	15
310	Steve Staios	RW	143	3	12	15
...
312	Darren Archibald	RW	52	6	8	14

Edited November 25 by Wilbur

[NewbieCanuckFan]

The guy selected one spot ahead of Cam Neely.

 

More trivia.....the guy selected three spots AFTER Cam Neely, ended up being "the key part of the Pavel Bure trade" [Brian Burke].  Now we know Burkie has been known to be dramatic about things but he was 100% correct.  Only not in the way he thought.  Dave Gagner didn't do much as a player for the Canucks (only played some thirty plus games for us) but as a *SCOUT* he pointed out undrafted prospect Chris Tanev to the Vancouver Canucks.

 

But back to McBain....I'm too lazy to look but didn't he have a brother who also was a NHLer?

Edited November 25 by NewbieCanuckFan

[Wilbur]

14 minutes ago, NewbieCanuckFan said:

The guy selected one spot ahead of Cam Neely.

 

More trivia.....the guy selected three spots AFTER Cam Neely, ended up being "the key part of the Pavel Bure trade" [Brian Burke].  Now we know Burkie has been known to be dramatic about things but he was 100% correct.  Only not in the way he thought.  Dave Gagner didn't do much as a player for the Canucks (only played some thirty plus games for us) but as a *SCOUT* he pointed out undrafted prospect Chris Tanev to the Vancouver Canucks.

 

But back to McBain....I'm too lazy to look but didn't he have a brother who also was a NHLer?

I thought so to, but a quick search didn't yield anything.  Jack McBain is his son though.