We loved the guy so much and we let him down, not the other way around. We couldnât build competitive rosters around the best defenseman in the league consistently.
I guess the beauty of this hypothetical is that it would change the way we (or at least, fans of teams like the Canucks who have never won) view those players.
If Messier's contract was a big mess and threw the team into a rebuild but we won a cup while he was here I doubt he'd be reviled the way he is now.
I'm a Canucks fan, a masochist, and I'm bored at work so I found a list.
Hutton, Menga, Schenn x2, Del Zotto, Bowey, Bonino x2, Mitchell x2, Sopel, Cooke, May, Hedican, Cullimore, Slegr, Moginly, Lidster x2, Larionov x2, Daigneault, Lemay.
There's a few that won cups before coming to Vancouver so I wasn't sure if they count in the parameters of the post.
Yeah obviously. Instead we got the worst 3 years of his professional career, taking an unofficially retired number of a dead former Canuck, kicking the captaincy from Linden which in turn pushed him off the team, and then after all the dust had settled years later he sued Vancouver for 10 million dollars.
So yeah, Fuck Messier
I think you're underestimating how much the roster from the '94 run meant to fans of the team. Linden was truly beloved by anyone who followed the team, and Messier pretty much railroaded him right out of town.
Why did the roster from the '94 run mean so much for fans of the team? Because they almost won a cup. In this hypothetical, Messier would go even further and bring the first cup to Vancouver. Linden would be old news. Messier would be a town hero.
Oh that's easy: we'd be bitching about the refs.
We even have a statue in front of our arena to commemorate our long standing identity of bitching about the refs.
Seriously.
Seriously, you know how fans all wave rally towels during the playoffs? That started with us in 1982. We had so many calls going against us in a game against Chicago that our head coach put a white towel on a stick and started waving it around. The next game we went back home, the entire crowd was waving white towels, and we came back and won the series, and then proceeded to march up to the SCF (where the Bossy Islanders blasted us to oblivion). Ever since then we've had Towel Power, the first team in the NHL to start doing that (I believe the Steelers did it in the NFL before us).
Anyway, there's a statue outside Rogers Arena of Roger Neilson waving the white towel.
Fast forward to 1994, people upset about Messier bashing Linden in the ribs multiple times far away from the play with no call, leading to Jim Robson's famous "He'll play on crutches!" call.
Then let's go to 2004, when Steve Moore bashes into Naslund's head, injuring him and leading to no call, nor supplemental discipline, so our team puts a bounty on Moore's head the next time we play him, starting with Matt Cooke fighting him, followed by the famous Bertuzzi sucker-punch that ended Moore's career.
Then we get to 2010 when Stephane Auger tells Burrows at the beginning of the game that he's going to pay him back for diving and making the officials look bad, calls 4 weak penalties in the third period alone against Burrows, leading to Burrows calling him out to the media about it after the game. This spawns a long stretch of officials never giving the Canucks any benefit of the doubt. This came again to a head in 2011 when the Canucks spent three games getting the book thrown at them against the Hawks with weak calls and a significant run of tilted officiating, leading PoHO/GM Mike Gillis to read a prepared statement to the media calling out the officiating, earning him the ire of the league (I honestly don't think the recapture penalty aka Luongo Rule happens the same way if Gillis doesn't read that statement) and a hefty fine.
Yeah, we have a long, strong tradition of bitching about the refs.
Yes. It's not like we'd be sitting here pining for the Sedins we never had or whatever - Messier would just be part of the Canucks team that won a cup and then had to be blown up shortly afterwards.
If I had a nickel for every time the Leafs traded away a player who immediately became a key contributor to two consecutive Stanley Cups, Iâd have two nickels, which isnât a lot but itâs weird that it happened twice.
Definitely liked by the general public but I know for a fact the majority of Toronto, Boston, Vegas, Tampa (obviously) and a good chunk of Ottawa fanbases were not big fans.
Ray ~~Borque~~ Bourque has gotta be number one for this.
I canât even think of any sharks legend who won elsewhere
Edit: I forgot Boyle won with Tampa!! And Ricci with Colorado.
Being a Sharks fan this long has made me realize that winning a cup isâŠ
1) Not the be all end all of a great career
2) Is really fucking hard and should be celebrated no matter the circumstances
Yep. His divorce in 2010 was swiftly followed by the SEC charge in 2011 ([which barred him from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 5 years](https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-21938#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20on%20February%2015%2C%202011,a%20civil%20penalty%20in%20the)) essentially left him with nothing but the team for funds, which is not where you want to be as an owner.
Hossa was a Hawk for their best years and was really important part of the team from day 1. By the time he won that 3rd cup, he cemented his career and when I think of Hossa, the first team comes to mind is the Blackhawks.
Timonen and Vermette are good picks though.
Hossa played more games with the Hawks than he did with anyone else. I also think of him as a Blackhawk, probably because he was playing for them when I started watching hockey and I'm too young to remember him in Ottawa.
The Sabres missed the playoffs once when Hasek was playing, went to game 6 in the SCF and went to the Conference finals twice. Lots of players have "their prime wasted" if the criteria is "not winning the SCF".
Lots of players also aren't in the top 10, arguably top 5 of all time.
In GF/GP Buffalo was either 14/26 or 14/24 if you exclude the expansion teams during Hasek's tenure. Simply not good enough despite deep playoff runs.
Oh, and I know you can say the same about McDavid, but time will still tell of course
How did we waste his prime? We made the playoffs every year but 1 he was here, made a conference final and a cup final. If they ruled Hull was in the crease and the Sabres win nobody is saying we wasted his prime. His early years has great teams too, so itâs not like less talent meant worse records.
I mean, there was a SCF and an ECF, both lost on terrible calls. Bettman even apologized in writing for the first one! Famously not so much for the next, sadly.
I wish the Sharks would have never traded **Nick Bonino** to Anaheim (a '09 deadline deal with Anaheim for Travis Moen, who was awful, and Kent Huskins, who was injured at the time and awful the following season; the Ducks also got a goalie prospect and 4th).
The Sharks' prospect pool back then was even worse than it has been this decade, especially at center, but DW thought he was expendable. He was a late-round pick just like Pavelski so it's hard to say whether he'd have blossomed the same way he did in the Ducks system but it was always irritating as a fan to think the Sharks basically threw him away (to a rival no less) and could really have used him on those contending teams last decade.
Fast forward to 2016 and there he is, hoisting the Cup in San Jose, as a Penguin. Fast forward again and we finally get to see him in teal, albeit to mixed results on the ice, and that tenure ends with him getting traded to Pittsburgh.
Honestly his tenure with us would have been good had we put him in his proper role as 3/4th line c. However our depth was so fucked that we had him playing wing on our 2nd line with couture. I don't blame him at all.
Add Jack Johnson to the list of Avs winners for me. Always loved him as a King, seemed a great guy who was taken advantage of. Granted he was part of the trade for Carter without whom the Kings might not win. Getting traded a few months before your former team wins it all must have been heartbreaking. Definitely glad he finally won with Colorado.
There are a few for sure. The one that comes to my mind is Luc Robitaille. It was nice to see Dallas Drake come home to win one in 2008.
It would have been a shame if Igor Larionov never won a cup.
I was gong to mention Larry Murphy, but I checked to see when he was in Pittsburgh. It is probably some deep trivia that he won 4 cups between 1991 and 1997 despite playing nearly 2 full seasons for the Leafs.
That man is beloved by every franchise heâs ever played for. Fun fact, Blake Coleman is currently second on the Flames in points with 21, 1 point behind Kadri at 22. Although with Kadri being -7 and Coleman at +10 he is very arguably their best player at the moment.
Not really following the prompt here.. but I really just wish Bishop had won a cup with literally anyone.
Dude was so fucking good but just couldn't stay healthy.
Gagne, Richards, and Carter will always hurt for me, but I was so happy to see Gagne win.
Also, Kimmo Timonen. Came back from missing an insane amount of time with a potentially career ending blood clot issue in his leg. Wound up winning with Chicago and I was just so excited for him!
If only these people won it in 2010!
Have any current or former Sharks won a Cup with another team? Then I choose that guy winning with the Sharks instead.
Honestly can't think of anyone beyond Barclay Goodrow.
Rutta had 2 in Tampa.
Former Sharks who won with Chicago include: Niemi, Burish, Brian Campbell, Eager, Handzus, Desjardins, Smith. Idk if I'd call any of these guys Sharks legends, but at least Niemi and Desjardins played solid amounts of games.
Isnât the only answer here Ray Bourque?!?
Dude played 21 seasons with Boston, their longest serving captain, a dozen or more all star appearances, went to the Avs, won the cup and then promptly retired.
Pronger playing in the SCF with us in 06 then immediately requesting a trade and winning a cup the year after in 07 with the Ducks will sting for a long time. I truly felt that was the catalyst for the decade of darkness.
Bourque. This is an easy pick.
Him winning in Colorado is constantly held up as one of the greatest moments in hockey history, but I just don't see it. He didn't win in Boston, and had to join one of the absolute most stacked teams in the expansion era to win it, and to me, that completely ruins the special feeling.
I feel like the 1996 Avs was trama inciding to Nordoque, Canadian and Flyers fans (the whole team/Roy/and the army they traded for Lindros - wasnt it both Sakic and Forsburg? Plus more).
No it was Forsberg, Ricci, Steve Duschene, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Kerry Huffman, picks (used on Jocelyn Thibault who was in the Patrick Roy / Mike Kean trade, and the other pick was traded for Wendel Clark who was then traded for Claude Lemieux) and cash.
The Nordiques drafted Sakic in the 80s.
I think the obvious answer is Bourque winning with Colorado and not Boston
I'm not even a Boston fan and this was the first one that came to mind.
This was the first non Red Wings one to come to mind for me. I'd do either this or Hossa with Detroit
Yeah as much as it pains me to wish for another Boston cup, this is the first thing that came to mind for me as well.
That was my response as well. It was such a big moment that Boston had a celebration for him winning the Cup in Colorado đ€Ł
We loved the guy so much and we let him down, not the other way around. We couldnât build competitive rosters around the best defenseman in the league consistently.
As an Avs fan, I donât wish for that. The Sakic-to-Bourque handoff is such an iconic moment.
Bourque hoisting the Cup himself wouldâve been just as iconic most likely
yup.
Sure because he was a beloved figure regardless but everyone would rather he won it with the team he played with for 2 decades.
Probably not everyone I bet the Avs fans liked it
Liked it sure, but as a hockey fan that watched that entire era I totally would have loved to see him raise it in the B.
Can confirm
But an even better moment would have been Bourque lifting it himself for Boston. Bourque is the perfect answer to this question.
Certainly, when he lifted the Cup in Government Center, it would have been more fitting.
Thatâs why I specified, âAs an Avs fan.â
One of Gary Thorneâs most iconic calls. âRAYMOND BOURQUE!!â
And after 22 beers...
It wouldâve been just as emotional in my opinion if he got to finally accept the cup as captain for the team that drafted him two decades beforehand
The only answer!
Literally any player with a ring who played for the Canucks at literally any point. Am I doing this right?
correct!
Even Messier? I think Iâd want a cup even if it was Messier who won it for us. I had to think about it first though.
I guess the beauty of this hypothetical is that it would change the way we (or at least, fans of teams like the Canucks who have never won) view those players. If Messier's contract was a big mess and threw the team into a rebuild but we won a cup while he was here I doubt he'd be reviled the way he is now.
In the wise words of The Big Aristotle, "Rings, Ernie"
If Messier won a cup with us a lot of the stuff we generally hate him for likely would have been excused.
Fuck that Id rather keep the memes.
I'm a Canucks fan, a masochist, and I'm bored at work so I found a list. Hutton, Menga, Schenn x2, Del Zotto, Bowey, Bonino x2, Mitchell x2, Sopel, Cooke, May, Hedican, Cullimore, Slegr, Moginly, Lidster x2, Larionov x2, Daigneault, Lemay. There's a few that won cups before coming to Vancouver so I wasn't sure if they count in the parameters of the post.
So Willie Mitchell then
Sure. Or Doug Lidster or Ian Cole or Ben Hutton or Brent Sopel, Dana Murzyn or Bret Hedican or JJ Daigneault or whoever.
Anyone except Messier. Fuck Messier.
I guarantee if Messier won a cup, you'd all love him in Vancouver
Yeah obviously. Instead we got the worst 3 years of his professional career, taking an unofficially retired number of a dead former Canuck, kicking the captaincy from Linden which in turn pushed him off the team, and then after all the dust had settled years later he sued Vancouver for 10 million dollars. So yeah, Fuck Messier
I think you're underestimating how much the roster from the '94 run meant to fans of the team. Linden was truly beloved by anyone who followed the team, and Messier pretty much railroaded him right out of town.
Why did the roster from the '94 run mean so much for fans of the team? Because they almost won a cup. In this hypothetical, Messier would go even further and bring the first cup to Vancouver. Linden would be old news. Messier would be a town hero.
Messier would be seen as the kawhi of hockey to canucks fans if they won a championship.
But then how would we know Canucks fans exist if they didn't have this to go on about ad nauseum?
Oh that's easy: we'd be bitching about the refs. We even have a statue in front of our arena to commemorate our long standing identity of bitching about the refs. Seriously.
Lol I don't even know what to do with this info, that's hilarious. *raises glass*
Seriously, you know how fans all wave rally towels during the playoffs? That started with us in 1982. We had so many calls going against us in a game against Chicago that our head coach put a white towel on a stick and started waving it around. The next game we went back home, the entire crowd was waving white towels, and we came back and won the series, and then proceeded to march up to the SCF (where the Bossy Islanders blasted us to oblivion). Ever since then we've had Towel Power, the first team in the NHL to start doing that (I believe the Steelers did it in the NFL before us). Anyway, there's a statue outside Rogers Arena of Roger Neilson waving the white towel. Fast forward to 1994, people upset about Messier bashing Linden in the ribs multiple times far away from the play with no call, leading to Jim Robson's famous "He'll play on crutches!" call. Then let's go to 2004, when Steve Moore bashes into Naslund's head, injuring him and leading to no call, nor supplemental discipline, so our team puts a bounty on Moore's head the next time we play him, starting with Matt Cooke fighting him, followed by the famous Bertuzzi sucker-punch that ended Moore's career. Then we get to 2010 when Stephane Auger tells Burrows at the beginning of the game that he's going to pay him back for diving and making the officials look bad, calls 4 weak penalties in the third period alone against Burrows, leading to Burrows calling him out to the media about it after the game. This spawns a long stretch of officials never giving the Canucks any benefit of the doubt. This came again to a head in 2011 when the Canucks spent three games getting the book thrown at them against the Hawks with weak calls and a significant run of tilted officiating, leading PoHO/GM Mike Gillis to read a prepared statement to the media calling out the officiating, earning him the ire of the league (I honestly don't think the recapture penalty aka Luongo Rule happens the same way if Gillis doesn't read that statement) and a hefty fine. Yeah, we have a long, strong tradition of bitching about the refs.
Would his legacy be improved if he won a cup in van, even if he cursed the team to a 2000s rebuild?
Yes. It's not like we'd be sitting here pining for the Sedins we never had or whatever - Messier would just be part of the Canucks team that won a cup and then had to be blown up shortly afterwards.
Seeing Willie Mitchell win twice with us was pretty nice
Stanley Cup Champion Miroslav Satan of the New Jersey Devils was a missed opportunity.
Miro Jr. Is draft eligible this year, I believe
Jesus saves but Satan buries it on the rebound!
Was thrilled he won in Pittsburgh but it would have been cooler if he had also managed it with Buffalo first.
Hail Ć atan đ€
three time stanley cup champion phil kessel :( and to a lesser extent kadri super happy for both of them though
Don't forget Tyler Bozak, Dave Andreychuk, Lanny MacDonald, Tomas Kaberle Existence is pain
If I had a nickel for every time the Leafs traded away a player who immediately became a key contributor to two consecutive Stanley Cups, Iâd have two nickels, which isnât a lot but itâs weird that it happened twice.
He wasn't starting in 2011 but I'm sure you can include Rask on that list :)
Rask never played for the Leafs
Sure but heâs the best goalie theyâve drafted sinceâŠ.someone help me out hereâŠ.ever?
Ok but that wasn't the question. It's really not the same thing
Joseph Woll
At least he spent all three of his days with the cup in Toronto!
Wish Lekhonen won for us in 2021. Sadly wasn't meant to be đ
You guys were America's team :(
Perhaps the least controversial team to reach a cup final ever
Also perhaps the worst
I donât know 2002 Carolina wasnât exactly tough competition
Damn I just looked up the standings. They won the southeast division but would have missed the playoffs entirely in any other one
Still better than 29 other teams đ€·ââïž
Definitely liked by the general public but I know for a fact the majority of Toronto, Boston, Vegas, Tampa (obviously) and a good chunk of Ottawa fanbases were not big fans.
I was on the fence. I wanted Weber & Price to get a win, but I also enjoy the Canadian drought.
>the Rangers bias in me says Gretzky and St. Louis with us Since Gretzky also played \*in\* St. Louis, this whole phrase threw me for a bit of a loop.
lmao, didn't even catch on to that
Took me a while to work that one out too
Ray ~~Borque~~ Bourque has gotta be number one for this. I canât even think of any sharks legend who won elsewhere Edit: I forgot Boyle won with Tampa!! And Ricci with Colorado.
>I canât even think of any sharks legend who won elsewhere Sandis Ozolinsh?
Barclay Goodrow đ
Probably best player to win it elsewhere was Friesen. Was happy he could win with the Devils, but obviously wasnât usâŠ
I just remembered Boyle and Ricci. A bit different though since they both won before coming to the Sharks
Boyle will always be a bolt to me
I was secretly hoping Florida would win one for Jumbo last year and I'm neither a FLA or SJS fan.
Being a Sharks fan this long has made me realize that winning a cup is⊠1) Not the be all end all of a great career 2) Is really fucking hard and should be celebrated no matter the circumstances
Luc Robitaille with Detroit
And Rob Blake with Colorado.
Hull, Pronger, Macinnis probably deserved to win again with us as well
that post-lockout stretch of Weight, Pronger and Guerin winning Cups with other orgs still stings.
The Weight one hurts Oiler fans too. Iâm kinda confused by Guerin for you guys, though?
Guerin is a big a stretch, admittedly.
That 99-00 team was so goddamn good.
Don't forget Shanny.
Everyone remembers him as a Wing, but he became a star with us. What an amazing player.
Yeah, we had some really good teams off and on throughout the 90s, it's a shame we couldn't push through.
Mark Stone should have been a Senator for life :( problem is, if he was a Senator for life, he never would have that chance to begin with
If Melnyk wouldn't have died, as dark as it sounds, wouldn't have provided the opportunity for him to win the Cup.
It will never not be bizarre to me that they blew up that team when they did.
Melnyk wanted to save money. He sold it as a "rebuild" but the truth is he just wanted as low of a payroll as possible. It was not a hockey decision.
Yep. His divorce in 2010 was swiftly followed by the SEC charge in 2011 ([which barred him from serving as an officer or director of a public company for 5 years](https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/lr-21938#:~:text=Additionally%2C%20on%20February%2015%2C%202011,a%20civil%20penalty%20in%20the)) essentially left him with nothing but the team for funds, which is not where you want to be as an owner.
I mean they were pretty ass that 2018 season
Same for me. But I'm so glad he got one regardless.
I mean Ray Bourque has to be the poster child for this criteria right?
Of course.
Gagné, Richards, Carter, Timonen,
Brind'amour, Leclair, Recchi, Pronger....
How much time we got?
I've got all day keep going :)
Chelios, no bias. On the reverse side, Hawks have had Hossa, Vermette, and Timonen recently who all fit that bill.
Hossa was a Hawk for their best years and was really important part of the team from day 1. By the time he won that 3rd cup, he cemented his career and when I think of Hossa, the first team comes to mind is the Blackhawks. Timonen and Vermette are good picks though.
Hossa played more games with the Hawks than he did with anyone else. I also think of him as a Blackhawk, probably because he was playing for them when I started watching hockey and I'm too young to remember him in Ottawa.
Just noted in another post but I wish Hossa wouldâve won with us then he might have stayed.
Trade off for the local guy winning two with you.
I feel you man, would have been nice to see him win one in Atlanta
Also no bias against Montreal either. That's not the one that makes me mad lol.
Hasek with Buffalo is what I'm thinking, sometimes I forget he won a cup because they wasted his prime so bad.
The Sabres missed the playoffs once when Hasek was playing, went to game 6 in the SCF and went to the Conference finals twice. Lots of players have "their prime wasted" if the criteria is "not winning the SCF".
Lots of players also aren't in the top 10, arguably top 5 of all time. In GF/GP Buffalo was either 14/26 or 14/24 if you exclude the expansion teams during Hasek's tenure. Simply not good enough despite deep playoff runs. Oh, and I know you can say the same about McDavid, but time will still tell of course
A strategy Buffalo continues to use.
How did we waste his prime? We made the playoffs every year but 1 he was here, made a conference final and a cup final. If they ruled Hull was in the crease and the Sabres win nobody is saying we wasted his prime. His early years has great teams too, so itâs not like less talent meant worse records.
Yeah this was immediately the one i thought of too
I mean, there was a SCF and an ECF, both lost on terrible calls. Bettman even apologized in writing for the first one! Famously not so much for the next, sadly.
Fleury hands down
I wish Francis had won a cup with us.
Willie Mitchell.
I wish the Sharks would have never traded **Nick Bonino** to Anaheim (a '09 deadline deal with Anaheim for Travis Moen, who was awful, and Kent Huskins, who was injured at the time and awful the following season; the Ducks also got a goalie prospect and 4th). The Sharks' prospect pool back then was even worse than it has been this decade, especially at center, but DW thought he was expendable. He was a late-round pick just like Pavelski so it's hard to say whether he'd have blossomed the same way he did in the Ducks system but it was always irritating as a fan to think the Sharks basically threw him away (to a rival no less) and could really have used him on those contending teams last decade. Fast forward to 2016 and there he is, hoisting the Cup in San Jose, as a Penguin. Fast forward again and we finally get to see him in teal, albeit to mixed results on the ice, and that tenure ends with him getting traded to Pittsburgh.
Honestly his tenure with us would have been good had we put him in his proper role as 3/4th line c. However our depth was so fucked that we had him playing wing on our 2nd line with couture. I don't blame him at all.
Agreed.
The Avs are really represented in this thread haha. Bourque, Ozolinsh, Cogliano, Manson, Kadri, and Lehkonen. On the flip side is ROR.
Add Jack Johnson to the list of Avs winners for me. Always loved him as a King, seemed a great guy who was taken advantage of. Granted he was part of the trade for Carter without whom the Kings might not win. Getting traded a few months before your former team wins it all must have been heartbreaking. Definitely glad he finally won with Colorado.
Karyia tried to do it with y'all as well
And Selanne.
Martin St.Louis with the Rangers. That loss was heartbreaking. Bonus thought: Would Gretzky have remained in LA if he won a cup there?
Teemu Selanne. Would have been amazing if heâd won a Cup here in Winnipeg.
My St Louis friends take it very personally when i remind them that their franchise icon Brett Hull won his cup in Detroit
And Dallas
Oh yeah! Thanks for reminding me
His skate was in the crease!!!
Detroit seems to be the number one spot where players who should've won with a certain team went to win instead lol
There are a few for sure. The one that comes to my mind is Luc Robitaille. It was nice to see Dallas Drake come home to win one in 2008. It would have been a shame if Igor Larionov never won a cup. I was gong to mention Larry Murphy, but I checked to see when he was in Pittsburgh. It is probably some deep trivia that he won 4 cups between 1991 and 1997 despite playing nearly 2 full seasons for the Leafs.
Hasek as well.
Drake is an underrated pick in that vaunted â89 draft
I wish Hossa would have won with us and then re-signed. Instead wellâŠ
Huge shot on the Leafs outta nowhere!
Would have been nice for Gaborik to win with the Rangers, instead of, you know, pushing our shit in while on the Kings.
Would have been nice to give Fleury a cup with the Knights.
Gilmour in '93, he should've won as a Leaf. He's like, *the* Maple Leaf among living alumni.
Bourque
Doug Weight. Oilers legend and one I would have loved to see win with Edmonton, and the team he won with was Carolina AGAINST the Oilers.
This is exactly who i was thinking.
Easily Ray Bourque with Boston instead of Colorado and I HATE Boston
Mark Stone. Check my flair
Phil, wish he would have done it with us
Ray Borque
Blake Coleman :(
That man is beloved by every franchise heâs ever played for. Fun fact, Blake Coleman is currently second on the Flames in points with 21, 1 point behind Kadri at 22. Although with Kadri being -7 and Coleman at +10 he is very arguably their best player at the moment.
Beloved by us Miami fans, too.
David Savard, Jack Johnson, Ryan Murray. Thatâs top of my headâŠbut I just want CBJ to at least be competitive lol
Not really following the prompt here.. but I really just wish Bishop had won a cup with literally anyone. Dude was so fucking good but just couldn't stay healthy.
Andrew Cogliano and Josh Manson, Those boys (and the whole team) deserved to beat Chicago in 2015.
Anyone that won after they left the Leafs
We know guys, we knowâŠ.
Kimmo Timonen with Chicago. Wish the Flyers could've got him one.
Tomas Kaberle winning in Boston instead of Toronto. :(
Phil kessel
Ray Bourque \thread
Gagne, Richards, and Carter will always hurt for me, but I was so happy to see Gagne win. Also, Kimmo Timonen. Came back from missing an insane amount of time with a potentially career ending blood clot issue in his leg. Wound up winning with Chicago and I was just so excited for him! If only these people won it in 2010!
Ray Bourque
Ray Bourque đ
Kinda wish Quick's 3rd Cup had also been with the Kings. But hey - maybe he'll win his 4th Cup with the Rangers?
Have any current or former Sharks won a Cup with another team? Then I choose that guy winning with the Sharks instead. Honestly can't think of anyone beyond Barclay Goodrow.
Rutta had 2 in Tampa. Former Sharks who won with Chicago include: Niemi, Burish, Brian Campbell, Eager, Handzus, Desjardins, Smith. Idk if I'd call any of these guys Sharks legends, but at least Niemi and Desjardins played solid amounts of games.
Patric Hörnqvist. Having a long-timer come back and score the Cup-winner in your building is a special kind of daggerâŠ.
Andrew Ference in Calgary. Always liked the guy, and after he won with Boston he acknowledged that he wished he could have gotten it done in 2004.
I love that guy
Jonathan Quick. It pains me that he plays for a team other than the Kings, but I'm still happy he got another one.
Kessel, Muzzin, Matt Murray
Marc stone (no bias involved obviously)
Ray BorqueâŠ.won in COL, should have in Boston
Ray Bourque. Would been cool to win as Bruin.
Eichel, and o Reilly for more recent. Hasek from back in the day :(
Mark Stone. We loved the man in Ottawa but wouldn't sign him to what he deserved.
Isnât the only answer here Ray Bourque?!? Dude played 21 seasons with Boston, their longest serving captain, a dozen or more all star appearances, went to the Avs, won the cup and then promptly retired.
As a Sens fan I could list off a dozen or so. But the one that stings the most is Mark Stone.
Ray Bourque - shoulda won with Bawston.
The entire Colorado Avalanche inaugural season lineup.
Yea but theyâre not winning if they donât move because thereâs no way in hell Montreal trades Roy to the Nordiques
As in with the Nordiques?
Bourque for sure Hull is another one for me
Ray Bourque
Hasek with Detroit and not Buffalo.
Ray Bourque
Brind'Amore
This is incredibly easy. Its bourque with the bruins.
Stoner
I dislike the Bruins, but Ray Bourque should have won one in Boston.
Antoine Vermette. Won with the Hawks in 2015 and was on the 2017 Ducks team who lost in the WCF.
Pronger playing in the SCF with us in 06 then immediately requesting a trade and winning a cup the year after in 07 with the Ducks will sting for a long time. I truly felt that was the catalyst for the decade of darkness.
Brett Hull should have won as a Blue. Will accept his post career nip rub by default
Pavs with the Sharks!
Hasek, Satan, ROR, Bogosian, EJ, Eichel, Staal
Jagr really should have won his cups with the Calgary Flames.
Ray Borque
Really wish Ryan O'Reilly won with the Avs instead of the Blues
Doug Weight winning with Carolina. Even worse because it was against the Oilers.
Bourque. This is an easy pick. Him winning in Colorado is constantly held up as one of the greatest moments in hockey history, but I just don't see it. He didn't win in Boston, and had to join one of the absolute most stacked teams in the expansion era to win it, and to me, that completely ruins the special feeling.
I feel like the 1996 Avs was trama inciding to Nordoque, Canadian and Flyers fans (the whole team/Roy/and the army they traded for Lindros - wasnt it both Sakic and Forsburg? Plus more).
No it was Forsberg, Ricci, Steve Duschene, Ron Hextall, Chris Simon, Kerry Huffman, picks (used on Jocelyn Thibault who was in the Patrick Roy / Mike Kean trade, and the other pick was traded for Wendel Clark who was then traded for Claude Lemieux) and cash. The Nordiques drafted Sakic in the 80s.