Joe Sakic wins by a landslide. Worst forward to crack top 9?
September 10, 2024
1300 votes for Joe
2nd: Forsberg with 84 votes
3rd: Roy with 18 votes
4th: Kurtis “Stanley Cup Champ” McDermid with 16 votes. what a champ
5th: MacKinnon with 9 votes
37 comments
Someone from 16-17
Any of the top 3 2012 draft class forwards, Yakupov or Galchenyuk.
Maybe RyJo?
who did we have in the 15-16 season? any one of those guys.. Oddly the worst +/- that season was iginla Maybe Mikkel Boedker or Andreas Martinsen?
RyJo is recency bias. My vote goes for Joe Colborne. 8 points in 62 GP and 3 of them being from an opening night hat trick. I know that team was abysmal but he was BAD.
Edit: I misspelt this legends name.
Nail Yakupov
So hard to choose but if Brad May got top 9 minutes I’d have to go there. More recently, Johansen was an absolute joke in terms of both production and effort.
Tyler Arnason
Avs Legend, Nail Yakupov
JOE COLBORNE!
Winger. He scored a hat trick in one of the first games of the season and that was literally the only good thing he did on The Avs, and petty much the only good thing to happen during the disastrous 16-17 season.
Averaged about 30 pts in 70 games for the Flames…
8 points in 62 games for the Avs
Brandon Yip, David Jones, TJ Gallardi or Chuck Kobasew?
Marc-Andre Cliche
Tyler. Arnason.
Probably kinda random and showing my age. I’m going to go with Tyler Arnason. There was a point, because of injuries, he was our second line center. He was a terrible skater and I’m being serious when I say I’m not sure he knew how to skate backwards. I absolutely loathed watching him play. He also had a comically long stick that just bothered the everloving shit out of me. RyJo recently was also pretty bad.
T. J. Hensick
My vote would be RyJo. There have been others that were miscast as top 9 due to lack of talent in the org, there have been some that were projects that didn’t work out, but he was brought in specifically to fill a top 9 (top 6?) role and just wasn’t good enough
Rene Bourque who inexplicably played on the first line for an entire season
Joe Colbornne
The answer has to be Tyler Arnason but I think Chuck Kobasew isn’t far behind.
I hear your Joe Colborne’s, but on that awful 16/17 team he averaged about 10 minutes a night, that’s a 4th liner, beating only Martinsen and McLeod for ice time among the forwards.
It’s gotta be Arnason. He was in the top six, for multiple seasons. The lazy fuck.
There are so many great choices here already. I want to throw out all time great hockey name Bates Battaglia. I think he got some time on the 3rd line
4×4
IN response to Yakupov comments def not the worst, he would score a goal from time to time and some of the goals were big
Maybe if we had him for more than we did but Ive def seen wose players, he might fit best under wasted potential
Yakupov
Arnason
So far so good on this list. I just wish they added BEST FIGHTER category. I would’ve chosen The Sheriff.
Joe Colborne bc of his stats
Chris Stewart, TJ Galiardi
Tyler Arnason!
People won’t like it, but Jost. Simply useless by the end of his tenure
Tyler Arnason
Derek Brassard was absolutely awful for us
There’s definitely some recency bias with Johansen but I really do think he was the worst
Is it the worst forward or worst player? Daniel Briere if forward and Brad Stuart if player.
37 comments
Someone from 16-17
Any of the top 3 2012 draft class forwards, Yakupov or Galchenyuk.
Maybe RyJo?
who did we have in the 15-16 season? any one of those guys..
Oddly the worst +/- that season was iginla
Maybe Mikkel Boedker or Andreas Martinsen?
RyJo is recency bias. My vote goes for Joe Colborne. 8 points in 62 GP and 3 of them being from an opening night hat trick. I know that team was abysmal but he was BAD.
Edit: I misspelt this legends name.
Nail Yakupov
So hard to choose but if Brad May got top 9 minutes I’d have to go there. More recently, Johansen was an absolute joke in terms of both production and effort.
Tyler Arnason
Avs Legend, Nail Yakupov
JOE COLBORNE!
Winger. He scored a hat trick in one of the first games of the season and that was literally the only good thing he did on The Avs, and petty much the only good thing to happen during the disastrous 16-17 season.
Averaged about 30 pts in 70 games for the Flames…
8 points in 62 games for the Avs
Brandon Yip, David Jones, TJ Gallardi or Chuck Kobasew?
Marc-Andre Cliche
Tyler. Arnason.
Probably kinda random and showing my age. I’m going to go with Tyler Arnason. There was a point, because of injuries, he was our second line center. He was a terrible skater and I’m being serious when I say I’m not sure he knew how to skate backwards. I absolutely loathed watching him play. He also had a comically long stick that just bothered the everloving shit out of me. RyJo recently was also pretty bad.
T. J. Hensick
My vote would be RyJo. There have been others that were miscast as top 9 due to lack of talent in the org, there have been some that were projects that didn’t work out, but he was brought in specifically to fill a top 9 (top 6?) role and just wasn’t good enough
Blake Comeau solely because of the [Blakeaway](https://youtu.be/Pi_eGSHViNM?si=w3eZwL8NdJU4M0ce)
Tyler Arnason is my pick for sure. Dark days.
Rene Bourque who inexplicably played on the first line for an entire season
Joe Colbornne
The answer has to be Tyler Arnason but I think Chuck Kobasew isn’t far behind.
I hear your Joe Colborne’s, but on that awful 16/17 team he averaged about 10 minutes a night, that’s a 4th liner, beating only Martinsen and McLeod for ice time among the forwards.
It’s gotta be Arnason. He was in the top six, for multiple seasons. The lazy fuck.
There are so many great choices here already. I want to throw out all time great hockey name Bates Battaglia. I think he got some time on the 3rd line
4×4
IN response to Yakupov comments def not the worst, he would score a goal from time to time and some of the goals were big
Maybe if we had him for more than we did but Ive def seen wose players, he might fit best under wasted potential
Yakupov
Arnason
So far so good on this list. I just wish they added BEST FIGHTER category. I would’ve chosen The Sheriff.
Joe Colborne bc of his stats
Chris Stewart, TJ Galiardi
Tyler Arnason!
People won’t like it, but Jost. Simply useless by the end of his tenure
Tyler Arnason
Derek Brassard was absolutely awful for us
There’s definitely some recency bias with Johansen but I really do think he was the worst
Is it the worst forward or worst player? Daniel Briere if forward and Brad Stuart if player.
Let’s go Joe Colborne