bandwagon Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 ......but who are the Las Vegas Wranglers? They're the Flames' ECHL affiliate. ECHL=one level below the AHL (but you may have already known that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caged_Great Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 We only have a couple of people down there (namely the players who pretty much have no hope of ever making the NHL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I__ Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 ahhhh...Thank you! So if a player has no hope of making the NHL, they send him to gambe ok ok! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caged_Great Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Well, the only good NHLer that ever spent time there was Michael Ryder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandwagon Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/ The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunatik-1 Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. there is some pretty decent goaltenders on that list... especially Vokoun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caged_Great Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. You're right. Ryder was the only good one I'd heard of who played there. Still most of the players on that list suck.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandwagon Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. You're right. Ryder was the only good one I'd heard of who played there. Still most of the players on that list suck.... I'll definitely give you that. And it's a little misleading in that some of those players were only in the ECHL briefly. Aebischer played a total of 10 games, for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caged_Great Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. You're right. Ryder was the only good one I'd heard of who played there. Still most of the players on that list suck.... I'll definitely give you that. And it's a little misleading in that some of those players were only in the ECHL briefly. Aebischer played a total of 10 games, for example. Here's all the good ones (By Good, I mean have been in the NHL for a while or will be for a while) David Aebischer JS Aubin Alex Auld Francois Beauchemin Martin Biron Bob Boughner Jesse Boulerice Andrew Brunette Joe Corvo Jeff Cowan Byron Dafoe Kevin Dahl Ruslan Fedotenko Brian Finley Johan Hedberg Milan Hnilicka Alex Khavanov Olaf Kolzig Antti Laaksonen Sasha Lakovic (Jk) Patrick Lalime Manny Legace Brett McLean Jamie McLennan Chris Neil Michael Ryder Curtis Sanford Steve Shields Tomas Vokoun Not really an all-star team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunatik-1 Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 http://www.echl.com/alumni/The list of alumni is a little bit more impressive than that. The league will become more important for development as the talent pool gets deeper as hockey gets bigger in the U.S. and in European countries like Austria, Denmark, Switzerland and Slovenia. You're right. Ryder was the only good one I'd heard of who played there. Still most of the players on that list suck.... I'll definitely give you that. And it's a little misleading in that some of those players were only in the ECHL briefly. Aebischer played a total of 10 games, for example. Here's all the good ones (By Good, I mean have been in the NHL for a while or will be for a while) David Aebischer JS Aubin Alex Auld Francois Beauchemin Martin Biron Bob Boughner Jesse Boulerice Andrew Brunette Joe Corvo Jeff Cowan Byron Dafoe Kevin Dahl Ruslan Fedotenko Brian Finley Johan Hedberg Milan Hnilicka Alex Khavanov Olaf Kolzig Antti Laaksonen Sasha Lakovic (Jk) Patrick Lalime Manny Legace Brett McLean Jamie McLennan Chris Neil Michael Ryder Curtis Sanford Steve Shields Tomas Vokoun Not really an all-star team while not an all-star team several of those guys have had long and solid NHL careers... and if you were to ice an ECHL alumni team... starting with Vokoun and Kolzig between the pipes definately wouldnt hurt... Corvo, Boughner and Beauchamin on the backend is a nice start to a solid NHL team at leastwhat the list shows me more than anything is the ECHL is a goaltending developmental league... there is less spots for goaltenders on AHL and NHL clubs so more diamonds in the rough will come from the ECHL... thats why there is also more defensemen than forwards that made it to teh NHL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGYOWN Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I didn't even figure out that ak-sar-ben was Nebraska backwards until I met a guy from Nebraska who figured it out, and he hadn't even heard of the team. haha, I'm an idiot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caged_Great Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I didn't even figure out that ak-sar-ben was Nebraska backwards until I met a guy from Nebraska who figured it out, and he hadn't even heard of the team. haha, I'm an idiot You're not the only one..... that's so stupid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunatik-1 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I didn't even figure out that ak-sar-ben was Nebraska backwards until I met a guy from Nebraska who figured it out, and he hadn't even heard of the team. haha, I'm an idiothe was able to point it out because of what the Ak-sar-ben knights means to the state of nebraska... it was originally a group of rich dudes who thought society was going backwards... thats why they called them selves the knights of ak-sar-ben... i dont remmeber what they did or anything... but thats the basic crude version of their history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CowTown_Pride Posted September 24, 2006 Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 he was able to point it out because of what the Ak-sar-ben knights means to the state of nebraska... it was originally a group of rich dudes who thought society was going backwards... thats why they called them selves the knights of ak-sar-ben... i dont remmeber what they did or anything... but thats the basic crude version of their history If anyone else is curious about their history, here's the link: http://www.aksarben.org/the-knights/history.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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