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 Adam
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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| oilfan94 wrote on Fri, 18 July 2025 11:49 |
| Adam wrote on Fri, 18 July 2025 11:40 |
I played a beer league hockey game against David Pelletier once. Georges Laraque and he joined one of our rival teams for a game in I think the summer of 2003. Laraque was nigh unstoppable. Couldn't be touched in the faceoff circle, could dangle beer leaguers with ease. Absolutely massive human, so incredibly hard to get off the puck even when guys were basically hanging off him. However, his Achilles' heel in that game is that he wanted to walk through our whole team and then feed Pelletier - and Pelletier, despite skating beautifully, had exactly zero when it comes to hands. He fluffed chances, missed empty nets, etc. We ended up winning 3-1. Laraque scored their only goal on a short-handed end-to-end rush where he roofed a backhand under the bar, but otherwise they were shut down (in big part due to an out-of-body experience from our goalie who had the game of his life as Big Georges tried to turn it up in the third). I also had two goals that night, but that's just bragging up past accomplishments.
Anyhow, the moral of the story is Pelletier isn't going to teach anyone to score. I'm a little surprised about that hire for Gulutzan. Maybe he envisions an assistant who is more just the guy who opens the door for the players?
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Talking about Laraque makes me think of that basketball player who made the comment about him being closer to LeBron's skill that any ordinary player is to him (I guess he was considered a not good NBA player). Then he played a bunch of people one on one and beat them all. Georges Laraque is closer to Wayne Gretzky (in terms of peak skill) than any of us are to Georges Laraque (and most of us are a fair distance from him).
I play in a hockey league here in Idaho and up until a couple years ago there was a guy playing in a low level league in his 80s that played in the NHL in the 1960s with the Leafs and Red Wings (even won the Cup with the Leafs). I played with a guy who had played iwth him a lot and his comment was even though he was old and slow he was still the smartest guy on the ice, knew when and where to pass and when and wear to shoot and was still great at both. Guys who played in the NHL are just an another level.
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It definitely makes you wonder what it would be like to play against a McDavid or Draisaitl (who lost a beer league game in Markham this week). Would be hard for them to feel any intensity at all playing complete scrubs like me and my buddies, and you can still tell they're way better.
The other NHLer who we played against around that time was Hnat Domechelli who came out and played defensive defenceman against us (he was a small offensive-minded forward in the NHL/AHL) and still had 2-2-4 as we lost 4-2 that game. He was virtually impossible to beat on the attack too.
Played with a buddy's father-in-law who had played in the WHA including, I believe, a cup of coffee with the Oilers of that era. Dude was really old by the point he played with us - maybe late 60s, early 70s, and his leg speed was gone but his passes were crisp and on the tape.
You're right - it is a different level.
Still, David Pelletier isn't who I'd have tagged as an assistant coach and I hope it goes miserably for Dallas who I feel nothing but antipathy towards.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
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