Non-Penguins you irrationally love

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Non-Penguins you irrationally love

Post by MRandall25 »

Going with the theme in PR, any players you've loved for no reason that weren't Penguins?

For me, Valeri Zelepukin and Billy Guerin (when he was with the Devils) are the 2 off the top of my head.
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Shane Doan
Tyler Seguin
and Darren McCarty is still my favorite player of all time.
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Ales Hemsky.
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Milan Lucic
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Jeff Beukeboom on name alone.

Ales Hemsky
Jussi Jokinen
Evander Kane
Brian Campbell
Wojtek Wolski
Dustin Byfuglien
Eric Daze
Rod Brindamour
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canaan wrote:Jeff Beukeboom on name alone.

Ales Hemsky
Jussi Jokinen
Evander Kane
Brian Campbell
Wojtek Wolski
Dustin Byfuglien
Eric Daze
Rod Brindamour
Jeff Beukeboom was awesome and John Vanbeisbroick is another name I thought was awesome growing up.

I remember going to a Blackhawks game in 2001 and being extremely disappointed that Eric Daze was playing. Him and Zhitnick were players I thought rocked.

Peter Bondra was quite possibly my favorite hockey player period growing up. Possibly only 2nd to Kovalev.
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Irrational because he plays for the Blue skirts, Ryan Callahan.
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Post by columbia »

Random players around the league that I like:

Dubinsky
Gagne
Lucic
Roy
Volchenkov
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- Wojtek Wolski
- Maxim Afinogenov
- Milan Lucic
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Nick Lidstrom was one of my favorite players for a long time. I used to try an model my game after him when I played hockey. I usually tried to wear his number as well in my younger days. The only reason I think its irrational is my hatred for the red wings.
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Hiller and it used to be Hasek when I just started watching hockey.
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Post by penny lane »

jason spezza~ hate/love. until he retired, it was always patrick roy. an arrogant SOB. But, the best.
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Post by Mongoose87 »

Tobias Enstrom helped carry me to two consecutive fantasy champsionships, and will always have a place in my heart.
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No current players who aren't former Pens fit the bill, but I had SERIOUS love for Joe Sakic when he played. My second favorite player growing up. I call it irrational because I hated those Avs teams otherwise. Forsberg, Foote, Claude, etc. But I did enjoy the Avs destroying the Devils in Game 7 in '01.

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Rob Blake
Marty McSorley (on the Kings)
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Post by interstorm »

Once rick tocchet became a penguin, dino ciccarelli became my favorite non-pen of all time.

There are some great names mentioned above. What i dont understand is lucic as 'irrational' love. The guy is awesome...nothing irrational about that beast.
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Some others to add to my list:

- Jari Kurri
- Valeri Kamenski
- Claude Lemieux
- Patrick Roy
- Dustin Byfuglien
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interstorm wrote:Once rick tocchet became a penguin, dino ciccarelli became my favorite non-pen of all time.

There are some great names mentioned above. What i dont understand is lucic as 'irrational' love. The guy is awesome...nothing irrational about that beast.
The reason I like Lucic, has much less to do with his play, and a lot to do with his name's closeness to my last name.
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Lucic is a ***** :pop:
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Zach Parise
Chris Drury
Milan Heduk
Marek Svatos
Mike Ricci
Adam Deadmarsh
Adam Oates
Patrick Kane
Pat Lafontaine

I would say Svatos was the only irrational one.
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ffemtreed wrote:Nick Lidstrom was one of my favorite players for a long time. I used to try an model my game after him when I played hockey. I usually tried to wear his number as well in my younger days. The only reason I think its irrational is my hatred for the red wings.
I think the hatred of the Red Wings is probably the irrational part.
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Post by Froggy »

i can't think of any i IRRATIONALLY love, but i do love me some David Backes & Pekka Rinne