What, if anything, can you recall in hockey history as being 'just wrong'...you know....like John Kordic playing alongside Ed Olczyk on the Leafs top line in the late 80s for a couple of games
2007-10-04 11:35:00 · 18 answers · asked by J S 3 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Denis Savard winning the Stanley Cup as a Hab! Nothing is more wrong that that
Also, Tony Esposito only played a handful of games for Montreal, yet he too has a Hab emblazoned Stanley Cup ring!
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
Oh yeah, the glowing puck was wrong too
America winning the 1996 World Cup behind 3 goals by Canadian born players (Deadmarsh and Hull) was wrong!
2007-10-04 11:46:29 · answer #1 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I can think of a few things that were just wrong in hockey:
1. Brett Hull as a Phoenix Coyote. He should have finished in St. Louis!
2. Graham James. For those who are not familiar with the name, he was the juniors coach who molested players back in the 1980s and 1990s. He basically scarred many young hockey players forever with his actions. Sheldon Kennedy spoke out against James, which was gutsy.
3. Mark Messier's second go-around with the New York Rangers. Some guys don't know when to hang up the skates, and Messier was a prime example of that. The Rangers' brass felt that Messier's presence would ensure a Broadway revival, but it never came to fruition until after he finally retired.
4. The New York Islanders naming Alexei Yashin captain. Denis Potvin, Mike Peca, Pat Flatley, and Trevor Linden are some of the great leaders in Islanders history. Leaving Bryan McCabe's nod as captain to be the worst idea in team history simply wasn't good enough for team brass. The decision to hand over the leadership reins to a heartless, gutless, oaf like Yashin was a mistake that the team paid for dearly.
5. The Nashville Predators' alternate jerseys. Along with the 1995-96 incarnations of alternate jerseys for the Kings, Ducks, Blues, the Preds alt was by far the worst piece of garbage in visual history.
Great question!
2007-10-04 19:45:28 · answer #2 · answered by Snoop 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I'll try not to repeat any here.
Al Arbour (former four-time Cup winning coach of the Islanders) wearing street glasses on the ice when he was a player.
Don Saleski
Oakland Seals' white skates
Jean Belliveau refusing to play for the Montreal Canadiens when he first started (he beat Lindros's routine by decades, but no one holds it against him like they do poor Eric)
Mario Lemieux refusing to put on a Penguins sweater on his draft day because he didn't like the way his contract negotiations were going
21 points by the Caps in their first season
Orchestrated fighting
Pornstar-style moustaches worn by players in various eras. Special mention goes to Cowboy Bill Flett and his '70's fuzz face that inspired ZZTopp
Flyers manager Bobby Clarke getting rid of coach Roger Neilson after he got cancer.
The NHL's refusal to enlarge the size of the ice surface even slightly, despite the fact players are much bigger and way faster than when the size of the surface was agreed upon over a century ago.
Helmuts Balderis ... actually, Helmuts is enough
The extinction of the goal judge
I was in Toronto one summer during the Ballard years and had never been to Maple Leaf Gardens, so I wandered down there and talked a security guy into letting me go in a have a look at the arena. To my horror they had taken down all the Stanley Cup banners and Memorial Cup banners, and were using them to cover seats while they were painting the ceilings above.
That was just wrong.
2007-10-05 01:44:41 · answer #3 · answered by Paul O 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Islanders trading Roberto Luongo and Olli Jokinen to the Panthers for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha in 2000, which forced them to draft Rick DiPietro instead of Dany Heatley or Marian Gaborik.
Todd Bertuzzi ending someone's career.
Playing in London.
Mike Milbury as a GM.
Versus network (even though it's better than nothing)
The glowing puck that was tried on TV.
That dumb rule that goalies can't play the puck behind the goal-line unless it's in the trapezoid.
P.S. Bring back Peter Puck and Showdown ( for those who can remember).
2007-10-05 00:08:55 · answer #4 · answered by Laying Low- Not an Ivy Leaguer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yashin - Daigle - Lowry
The shootout - 3 point/2 point games
instigator rule
Bertuzzi on Moore
McSorley on Brashear
2 lockouts
unbalanced schedules
moving Winnipeg to Pheonix
no Calder for Gretzky
Harold Ballard & Stafford Smythe
Bruce McNoll
Eric Lindros refusing to play for Quebec
Leafs 40 years without a cup
Blackhawks 46 years without a cup
Rangers 54 years between cups
Bobby Orr having two bad knnes
Mario having a bad back and lymphoma
2007-10-04 19:41:33 · answer #5 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Glowing puck.
Unbalanced schedule.
No goal one Dallas vs Buffalo (Im a real fan of the league, its not so much as the foot in the crease, it was Bettmans response, because of the time of the morning and everyone rushing the ice, Bettman said, "there was no time to remove everyone from the ice and review the play)
No goal two - Flyers vs Buffalo - philly scores goal through the side of the net!
The nets surrounding the edges of the rink, one fluke accident in over 100 years and everyone jumps the gun. I hate going to games and having to peer through fishnets to watch the action.
Four on ice officials - wanna open up the game, get rid of one of the blind men.
The trapezoid behind the net - could have come up with something other than defacing the ice more to restrict goalies.
East vs West - can we please get back to the traditional names instead of geographical divisions and conferences, history is what this game is about.
Young All Stars game - nothing more than a razzle dazzle non passing waste of time, let them play a real game, or not at all.
Olympic Break - olympics are supposed to be for amatuers.
Colin Campbell - get a disciplinarian with a back bone.
2007-10-04 21:47:18 · answer #6 · answered by tdr8256 3 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The "Maple Leaf Gardens Sex Scandal", including the way it was covered up by the team and how the media bought into the "nobody knew" story put out by the team as damage control.
2007-10-05 11:38:08 · answer #7 · answered by D D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The NHL expanded when the talent wasn't there....they focus on size & not hockey talent....I just watched the Minnesota Wild win in another 1-0 snoozefest....back in the day, if a team won a game 1-0, it was up & down hockey with great defense! These days, teams play not to lose!!! Hockey has become too defensive & the players these days should be linebackers in football.....the rink has become too small & the quality has suffered because of it!!
2007-10-04 23:17:12 · answer #8 · answered by Damned fan 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
When the NHL allowed Eric Lindros to be traded to the Flyers after he was a hold out just so he didn't have to play for the Quebec Nordiques. I never liked him after that. It set precedence for future players to do the same.
And, how about those good ol' flexible graphite and composite hockey sticks? They make players with a crappy shot look good.
Cooperalls! lol!!
2007-10-04 19:30:53 · answer #9 · answered by TML ♥'er 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
David Frost
2007-10-04 19:49:37 · answer #10 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋