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Post by caperguy on Oct 7, 2010 12:11:04 GMT -4
I got my first edition of The Hockey News yesterday and when I placed it on the table it just happened to open to page 24, where there was an article on a former CB goalie..... Andrew Verner. He just retired from a career best known to us for his rookie involvement in the CB Oilers' Calder Cup win. Now 37, he recalls his biggest contract was with Klagenfurt AC (Austrian league), Germany, where he spent 10 seasons, won the league championship in 2004 and was known as "The King of Klagenfurt". He also spent time in Finland, Sweden and the UK. He now spends time in Peterborough, Italy and Germany teaching the game to kids. He was actually drafted higher than Chris Osgood, 34th overall (2001), but his only NHL experience was backing up Ron Tugnutt for Edmonton for 4 games. Nice article by Adam Proteau.
thought this may be of interest to some here
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Post by elementz on Oct 7, 2010 12:38:53 GMT -4
Wow, Andrew Verner, there is a name I haven't heard of in a while.
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Post by Deer on Oct 7, 2010 18:34:07 GMT -4
Haha wow that's a blast from the past for sure, hard to believe he's only 37... although he was young as hell when he played for the CB Oilers, straight out of the OHL in fact.
Verner was pretty leaky while he was here, not gonna lie, but it's good to hear he became a championship goalie later in his career! The Eagles have a crazy tradition of awesome goalies. But the Oilers, despite overall being pretty successful in their 8 seasons in CB, had a decidedly mediocre run of netminders.
Wayne Cowley was great in the 1993 Calder Cup run. But in the three seasons after the Calder Cup, boy did we have some bad goalies. Verner was a gong show in 93-94. Joaquin Gage was quite bad in 94-95. In 95-96 we had Jason Fitzsimmons, who I'm not sure was ready to be a #1 at the AHL level.
We did have one awesome tender during that run, a guy by the name of Steve Passmore, but he only played a handful of games because of a ridiculously rare cramping disorder that ended up tracing back to the drinking water in his hometown. Once he got that sorted out he ended up having several cups of coffee in the NHL as a backup in several cities.
And Fred Braithwaite was decent too, certainly better than Gage/Verner/Fitzsimmons.
The earlier years had guys like Pokey Reddick.... talented guy but a total wingnut/enigma..... Norm Foster who was decent I guess..... and other guys I don't remember very well like Mike Greenlay, Sasha Tyjnych, etc. Anyone else have some fun names from back in the day?!
Elementz, only Saint John Flames goalies I remember are Dwayne Roloson (very good), and Jason Muzzatti (high NHL pick who busted at the NHL level, but was pretty good in the AHL).
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Post by eastcoastfan on Oct 7, 2010 19:04:44 GMT -4
Elementz, only Saint John Flames goalies I remember are Dwayne Roloson (very good), and Jason Muzzatti (high NHL pick who busted at the NHL level, but was pretty good in the AHL). How could you forget J.S. Giguere and Tyler Moss in Saint John? I guess they were after Cape Breton lost its AHL team so you wouldn't have seen them. The main thing I remember Muzzatti for was flipping the bird to the crowd when they were giving him a hard time one night he had a bad game. They booed him every time he played after that which thankfully for him wasn't that long.
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Post by countryboy on Oct 7, 2010 19:40:28 GMT -4
Here on PEI, our first season with the Senators (93-94) featured two former NHL backs in the net. Mark Laforest (who had stints in Detroit, Philly and Toronto before joining the Ottawa system) was our #1 and Daniel Berthiaume (who was Pokey Reddick's partner in Winnipeg in the late '80s before playing in Minnesota, LA and Boston prior to joining Ottawa).
You think with that veteran presence we'd be stable from the back out. But, we finished last in the league that year.
In 94-95 we finished first in the Atlantic division with Mike Bales and JF Labbe between the pipes. Bales played the majority of games, but I remember both being quality money goalies.
In the final season on PEI (95-96) our goaltending tandem was Frederic Cassivi and Lance Leslie. I really don't recall much about either keeper.
Definitely the best we saw on PEI was a toss up between Bales and Labbe.
cb
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Post by wingman on Oct 7, 2010 20:01:54 GMT -4
The earlier years had guys like Pokey Reddick.... talented guy but a total wingnut/enigma I remember Pokey when he used to come in and play against Moncton in the early 90's but can't remember what team he was playing for then, could very well have been the Oilers. It was the playoffs where he was the backup and we used to heckle him like crazy on the bench, he was pretty easy to distract where he would shoot water at us all the time and trade barbs until at the last he didn't come out to the bench during the game and stayed in the dressing room. Living in Moncton during that time I used to go to quite a bit of AHL games and do miss those times and some of the names that played and passed through the Moncton Coliseum, a thread like this sure brings back some memories. A couple Moncton goalies I remember were Stephane Beauregard who bounced between the NHL and AHL for most of his career, Tom Draper & Mike O'Neil who both were mainly career minor leaguers
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Post by elementz on Oct 7, 2010 22:07:06 GMT -4
Elementz, only Saint John Flames goalies I remember are Dwayne Roloson (very good), and Jason Muzzatti (high NHL pick who busted at the NHL level, but was pretty good in the AHL). Don't forget Andrei Trefilov. He was our #1 when the Flames entered the league.
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Post by christopher on Oct 8, 2010 9:15:31 GMT -4
This thread makes me wish that I was born earlier.
I was only 3 when the Oilers came to town. 11 when they moved. I didn't really understand/appreciate hockey as much back then (understandable so). I just remember going to lots of games with my grandpa.
I remember names like Shaun Van Allen (who doesn't?) and Dennis Bonvie. Thats about it.
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Post by juliansteed on Oct 8, 2010 10:51:51 GMT -4
Elementz, only Saint John Flames goalies I remember are Dwayne Roloson (very good), and Jason Muzzatti (high NHL pick who busted at the NHL level, but was pretty good in the AHL). Don't forget Andrei Trefilov. He was our #1 when the Flames entered the league. Don't forget J.S. Guiguere.
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Post by wingman on Oct 8, 2010 18:20:39 GMT -4
I know they aren't goalies but one line that I do remember from back in those days was the Cape Breton Oilers VCR line (Van Allen-Currie-Rice) as they were one of the top lines in the league
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Post by Deer on Oct 9, 2010 11:27:21 GMT -4
I know they aren't goalies but one line that I do remember from back in those days was the Cape Breton Oilers VCR line (Van Allen-Currie-Rice) as they were one of the top lines in the league The VCR line was indeed one of the top lines in the league, but in the Calder Cup season of 92-93 they were only the second-most prolific line on our team! Our "second line" of Roman Oksiuta-Bill McDougall-David Haas was absolutely lights out offensively. Scored on what seemed like every second shift. Never in my years of going to games at C200 has a line been that on fire as those guys were in the '93 playoffs. McDougall alone had 26 G and 52 pts in 16 playoff games. That about says it all.
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Post by Y Ddraig Goch on Oct 9, 2010 11:47:43 GMT -4
I saw Verner play quite a few times over here.
He was the best goalie in the league with Newcastle and last year was with Sheffield.
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Post by christopher on Oct 12, 2010 14:05:29 GMT -4
Speaking of the Oilers, Kirk Maltby retired today.
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Post by elementz on Oct 12, 2010 14:32:58 GMT -4
About time
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Post by brec7 on Oct 12, 2010 23:45:23 GMT -4
Speaking of the Oilers, Kirk Maltby retired today. The number of ex-Oilers in the NHL dwindles further. Todd Marchant & Miro Satan are still active, but I'm not sure on any others... is Greg deVries still in the NHL?
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