FINAL Round: Worst Canadien In Recent History?

[Lucius]

Another freaking tie. I am not doing a run off this time. In Round 7, Johan Witehall and Christian Laflamme tied for 8th. Thus, 8th and 9th go out and this round it to determine the FINAL entry on our top ten list.

Garth Murray and Pierre Sevigny received 0 votes. So, I DQed them. They're clearly not crappy enough.

I've added the following four players to replace the DQs and winners: Andre Bashkirov (used to get votes early, then stopped, try him again), Eric Houde (how'd he get missed!), Marko Kiprusoff (terrible) and David Aebischer (if only for that Buffalo game).

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Worst Montreal Canadiens in Recent Memory
1. Patrick Traverse (26.44%)
2. Sergei Samsonov (24.14%)
3T. Mariusz Czerkawski (15.49%)
3T. Janne Niinimaa (15.49%)
5. Sergei Berezin (21%)
6. Matt Higgins (28.38%)
7. Juha Lind (14.71%)
8T. Christian Laflamme (18.42%)
8T. Johan Witehall (18.42%)
10.

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In honor of a recent thread with the best 100 Canadiens of all time, I am opening a poll to figure out the worst Montreal Canadien of recent history.

I did far more research than I would like to admit. So here is my criteria:

-Must have played between 1984-85 and today (IE: Koivu & Roy's current career span combined)
-Only Montreal stats, regular season, count.
-Must have played 20 or more games for Montreal.

Now, like the prospect polls, I will nominate 15 guys, but post more players here. In each poll "other" is an option. If other wins, then I will figure out who the heck was gathering those votes and redo that round with them in it.

I will post the list of nominees I came up with in full, including career Habs stats, in the subject thread.

My nominations are based on actual statistical badness, my own memory and in some cases, popular demand. The actual nominees will be at my discretion to start. Some people - O'Byrne - are solely on this list to demonstrate their relative stats and will not be in the poll unless there is truly popular demand.

Poll closes in one day.

Here is the list of people I considered.

Pierre Sevigny (F)
GP 75, 4g, 5a, 9p, 64pim

Randy Mckay (F)
GP 75, 6g, 13a, 19p, 72pim

Sergei Samsonov (F)
GP 63, 9g, 17a, 26p, 10pim

Juha Lind (F)
GP 60, 4g, 6a, 10p, 8pim

Mariusz Czerkawski (F)
GP 43, 5g, 9a, 14p, 16pim

Jonas Hoglund (F)
GP 102, 14g, 15a, 29p, 22pim

Matt Higgins (F)
GP 57, 1g, 2a, 3p, 6pim

Andre Bashkirov (F)
GP 30, 0g, 3a, 3p, 0pim

Johan Witehall (F)
GP 26, 1g, 1a, 2p, 6pim

Garth Murray (F)
GP 80, 7g, 2a, 9p, 76pim

Niklas Sundstrom (F)
GP 154, 19g, 30a, 49p, 56pim

Pierre Dagenais (F)
GP 82, 23g, 17a, 39p, 40pim

Jason Ward (F)
GP 105, 10g, 10a, 20p, 43pim

Donald Audette (F)
GP 90, 15g, 22a, 37p, 43pim

Sergei Berezin (F)
29, 3g, 6a, 10p, 4pim

Trent McCleary (F)
GP 58, 1g, 0a, 1p, 33pim

Jason Dawe (F)
GP 37, 4g, 5a, 9p, 14pim

Sebastien Bordeleau (F)
GP 85, 8g, 17a, 25p, 38pim

Mick Vukota (F)
GP 22, 0g, 0a, 0p, 76pim

P.J. Stock (F)
GP 20, 1g, 2a, 3p, 32pim

Sylvain Blouin (F)
GP 22, 0g, 0a, 0p, 62pim

Jason Ward (F)
GP 105, 10g, 10a, 20pts, 43pim

Eric Houde (F)
GP 30, 2g, 3a, 5p, 4pim

Marko Kiprusoff (D)
GP 24, 0g, 4a, 8p, 8pim

Bryan Fogarty (D)
GP 34, 6g, 4a, 10p, 44pim

Patrick Traverse (D)
GP 109, 4g, 19a, 23p, 48pim

Christian Laflamme (D)
GP 54, 0g, 5a, 5p, 50pim

Brett Clark (D)
GP 102, 3g, 2a, 5p, 36pim

Ryan O'Byrne (D)
GP 50, 1g, 9a, 10p, 61pim

Janne Niinimaa (D)
GP 41, 0g, 3a, 3p, 36pim

Ron Hainsey (D)
GP 32, 1g, 1a, 2p, 4pim

Miloslav Guren (D)
GP 36, 1g, 3a, 4p, 16pim

Barry Richter (D)
GP 25, 0g, 2a, 2p, 10pim

Igor Ulanov (D)
GP 123, 4g, 15a, 19p, 197pim

Zarley Zalapski (D)
GP 28, 1g, 5a, 6p, 22pim

Scott Lachance (D)
GP 74, 1g, 7a, 8p, 33pim

Murray Baron (D)
GP 60, 1g, 5a, 6p, 107pim

Yves Racine (D)
GP 72, 4g, 10a, 14p, 68pim

Andre Racicot (G)
GP 68, S% .880, 26-23-8

Steve Penney (G)
GP 76, S% .865, 32-30-10

David Aebischer (G)
GP 39, S% .898, 17-15-3

NOTE: Popular requests for Terry Ryan, Robert Dirk and Gordie Dwyer have been skipped, as they didn't have enough games played. The intent is to consider guys who played regularly for Montreal.

[natey2k4]

Hoglund.

[x eric x]

Jason Dawe

[Habsfan18]

Sylvain Blouin.

[Joey]

Originally Posted by Habsfan18

Sylvain Blouin.

Sylvain Blouin.

[LedZeppelin]

it has to be red light

[22SteveBegin22]

Back when the team was really terrible, Chow kept the ladies interested. Got to credit him for that.

[coolguy21415]

It would be interesting to have a poll for "most disappointing Hab ever," where we could vote on the likes of Samsonov vs. Terry Ryan or Doug Wickenheiser.

[benji]

Blouin to round off the list.

[Lucius]

Originally Posted by RedScull

It would be interesting to have a poll for "most disappointing Hab ever," where we could vote on the likes of Samsonov vs. Terry Ryan or Doug Wickenheiser.

I vote you launch that after it concludes. I agree, it would also be a good poll.

Someone else's turn though!

[Hackett]

I voted for barry richter.. I was about to pick houde just because I barely even remember him.

Richter was brought in to be the PP QB... what a disaster

[coolguy21415]

If some people feel like nominating guys for "Most disappointing Hab" I'll add them to a list. A few obvious (fairly recent) ones to me are:

1. Sergei Samsonov
2. Terry Ryan
3. Doug Wickenheiser
4. Mariusz Czerkawski (maybe?)

[JGRB]

Blouin, by a country mile.

Watching this guy play made me feel like watching the Leafs, nah, i guess he wasn't that bad.