I'm thinking we will be last on Mount Puckmore

by Cherno77 on Aug 20, 2010 1:38 PM EDT

If you guys don't know, Yahoo's Puck Daddy blog is featuring Mount Puckmore this month. Here is the NY Islanders' entry today. John and many of you have speculated who should be on the monument for the Devils. But, as they've gone by 19 teams, I'm betting the Devils will be last because it is likely that Mr. Puck Daddy himself, Greg Wyshnyski, will be writing the entry.

Keep in mind that this is merely my own guess, but I'm convinced we will be waiting until August 30th or 31st for our Devils' Mount Puckmore. So that means there are 10 teams left.

Here's what I came up with for 5 of them, though I'm not sure you can use the same player twice.

1. Philadelphia - Bobby Clarke, Bernie Parent, Bill Barber, a blank goalie mask like the Ottawa Senators used, but if they had any guts - they'd put up Lindros who transformed the team for nearly 2 decades love him or hate him

2. NY Rangers - Mark Messier, Mike Richter, Rod Gilbert, Brian Leetch

3. Dallas - Mike Modano, Ed Belfour, Sergei Zubov, Norm Green

4. Edmonton - Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Grant Fuhr, Mark Messier, (If any guts) - Peter Pocklington

5. Los Angeles - Wayne Gretzky, Marcel Dionne, Dave Taylor . . Charlie Simmer??

Remaining teams:

Nashville, Florida, San Jose, Toronto, Minnesota

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Also my Devils prediction

After seeing the Islanders use a coach and GM on their Mount (considering their long history), I’m now betting Lou AND McMullen will be up there next to Stevens and Broduer.

The 3rd or 4th players – Daneyko, Elias, MacLean, provide too much debate amongst us. I think you’ll see Lou and Dr. John McMullen after looking at what the Islanders did.

I have respect for most sports fans with 2 exceptions: NY Ranger fans who grew up in New Jersey, and Dallas Cowboy fans who can't name the capital of Texas.

by Cherno77 on Aug 20, 2010 1:41 PM EDT reply actions

Nashville- Barry Trotz, David Legwand, Martin Erat, and ?
Florida- Olli Jokinen, Pavel Bure, Robert Luongo?, Jacques Martin
San Jose- Jeremy Roenick, Patrick Marleau, ?, ?
Toronto- Wendel Clark, Doug Gilmour, Edward Livingstone, Mats Sundin
Minnesota- Mikko Koivu, Nik Backstrom, Jacques Lemaire, Marian Gaborik

New Jersey- Dr. McMullen, Lou Lamoriello, Martin Brodeur, Scott Stevens

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 20, 2010 2:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Philly's Mt. Puckmore

I think Ron Hextall gets engraved on the Flyers’ monument before Eric Lindros ever gets in line to buy tickets while bringing his family to visit it on vacation.

Lindros was a great player when he was healthy, but his career to me says “supernova” in that he burned very bright but burnt out in a hurry. His numbers were fantastic, and he won both a scoring title and an MVP, but I imagine an awful lot of Flyers fans remember him as much for the concussions, for the arguments Eric and his daddy had with Flyers’ management, and for this as anything else.

On the other hand, Hextall also got the Flyers to the Stanley Cup Finals — in fact, to Game 7 of the Finals against dynastic Edmonton and a Conn Smythe to boot! — and revolutionized the game because he was the ultimate puckhandling goalie before Marty Brodeur. For all of Hextall’s off-the-ice issues, he was traded away only to be brought back reasonably quickly…. I doubt Lindros is coming back to Philadelphia for much of anything anytime soon.

But that’s just me.

by acasser on Aug 20, 2010 3:08 PM EDT reply actions

LA will undoubtably have Luc Robitaille. They just retired his number, people there love him. I would be absolutely shocked not to see his name there.

Since it looks like it’s players, not builders, our’s should be: Stevens (first), Brodeur, Elias and Daneyko in that order.

Stevens was arguably the face of the franchise, as the captain. When he came in, he was already a veteran, an elite defenseman that the opposition feared. He is one of two Devils to have their number retired, I enter Stevens first.

Brodeur is the ‘other’ face of the franchise. He holds pretty much every single goaltending record in NJ, and for that matter, the league’s history. He was the backbone of three Stanley Cups, that number can only go up.

Elias is the franchise’s all-time leading scorer, and soon enough, he will surpass John MacLean in the goal department as well. Elias, though injured often, has been consistent for years, and the Devils would not be where they are without him.

Daneyko suffered through the ugly in NJ, but he played out the bad and was here for all the good throughout the late ’80s, ’90s and into the 2000s. He won all three Stanley Cups, and up to 2002, he had played in every playoff game in Devils history. His is no doubt, in the “Mount Puckmore” of NJ, being the other player to have his number retired.

Notable honorable mentions – Scott Niedermayer, John MacLean, Sergei Brylin, Bruce Driver, Peter Stastny, Zach Parise, Chico Resch

Yankees in baseball, Giants in football and Devils in hockey. It's that simple. I have no off-season.

by DownGoesAvery on Aug 20, 2010 3:53 PM EDT reply actions

Chico Resch?

I did a post on devils mask’s and found out he went 0-31 or something..I don’t know maybe Terreri?

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 20, 2010 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes, Chico Resch. He’s a fan favorite, he played in an awful era in NJ, but he’s been doing TV with the organization long enough where I feel that he has meant something to the Devils. It’s just my opinion, he’s top 10…

Yankees in baseball, Giants in football and Devils in hockey. It's that simple. I have no off-season.

by DownGoesAvery on Aug 20, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions

Yeah I know I love him as of all of NJ Devils fans. But putting him on Mount Puckmore for the players.. I don’t know. Maybe a Mount Commentatormore. It would only have Doc, Chico, and Sherry Ross. And Matt Loughlin.

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 20, 2010 6:33 PM EDT up reply actions

A Mount Broadcastmore for the Devils would be...

Mike “Doc” Emerick
Mike Miller
Sherry Ross
Glenn “Chico” Resch

The only debatable one here would be Resch as Emerick & Miller are long-time Devils play-by-play announcers, Sherry Ross became the first woman to broadcast a male pro sports event; first woman to be an analyst for a Stanley Cup Finals series; and the first woman to do play by play in English in North America on the radio. Those three are locks in my opinion.

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by John Fischer on Aug 21, 2010 3:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Miller thats the name..

I knew that he did the games but I couldn’t remember the name. Miller would deffinantly be in there.

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 21, 2010 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions

How about Gary Thorne?

Devils play-by-play from 87-93. He was the guy to announce the goal that sent the Devils to the playoffs for the first time in their history: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3RbMtyv9r8

by njdss4 on Aug 24, 2010 6:12 AM EDT up reply actions

Oooooh, good catch

I completely forgot about that.

But was Thorne memorable enough to make it a third PBP guy? The Crazies still do Miller’s goal call at games today; and Doc is, well, Doc.

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by John Fischer on Aug 24, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

Wait what was Miller’s goal call?

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 25, 2010 8:30 AM EDT up reply actions

Leave out Elias?

If you listen to Vladimir Bure, I’d hold off on putting Elias on Mount Puckmore.

But the tweet doesn’t really mean much to me.

I have respect for most sports fans with 2 exceptions: NY Ranger fans who grew up in New Jersey, and Dallas Cowboy fans who can't name the capital of Texas.

by Cherno77 on Aug 20, 2010 5:15 PM EDT reply actions

Man you beat my fanshot

Mathew Barnaby to Lyle Odelein: "Cornelius, as we like to call him, gets under your skin. Planet of the Apes. Look at him. Seriously. He looks like Cornelious."

Odelein to Barnaby: "He should take a look at his wife. She's God-awful to look at."

by RolliePollieKovy on Aug 20, 2010 5:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't think any player epitomized

the Devils Cup winning teams more than Sergei Brylin. He was versatile, playing all positions, he was underrated, under recognized and was integral to the Cup winning teams.

But that being said, he would just fall short of it. I’d go with Brodeur, Stevens, Niedermayer and Daneyko.

by Tyler Bleszinski on Aug 23, 2010 11:39 PM EDT reply actions

And if I had to bump one for Lou, it would be Nieds

Despite the fact that Niedermayer may be my all time favorite hockey player.

by Tyler Bleszinski on Aug 23, 2010 11:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Remaining

Toronto, Edmonton, San Jose & the Devils

I have respect for most sports fans with 2 exceptions: NY Ranger fans who grew up in New Jersey, and Dallas Cowboy fans who can't name the capital of Texas.

by Cherno77 on Aug 27, 2010 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

Leahy

just tweeted that San Jose and Edmonton will be this weekend.

Meaning it’s Toronto and the Devils for Monday and Tuesday.

I have respect for most sports fans with 2 exceptions: NY Ranger fans who grew up in New Jersey, and Dallas Cowboy fans who can't name the capital of Texas.

by Cherno77 on Aug 27, 2010 4:20 PM EDT reply actions