They say in baseball that you still have to be a good player if you lose 20 Games because that means that they have the confidence in you to go out there, and it is unspoken between the player and coach that the team around him just wasn’t that good.  There is something similar in hockey, as you can argue that Gilles Meloche was a really good netminder, and even though he is fourth all-time in Losses (351) and lost 81 more Games than he won, this was a veteran of 788 Games, and any Goalie who played that many games had to be good.

A member of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, Scott Young quietly scored 756 Points over his 1,181-game career in the National Hockey League.  Young played for six NHL teams, had four 60 Point seasons, and was a role player on two Stanley Cup Championship teams, one with Pittsburgh (1991) and one with Colorado (1996).

It is hard for many fans of the Pittsburgh Penguins to imagine this now, but for many years in the pre-Mario Lemieux era, Western Pennsylvania did not have a very good professional hockey team, and they almost lost their franchise.  One of the few bright spots of the Pens was Rick Kehoe, who was a two-time All-Star (1981 & 1983), a former 50 Goal scorer, and a three-time franchise leader in Points.  The Lady Byng Trophy winner in 1981 would score 767 Points over his career and would have had an outside shot at 1,000 had he not suffered a career-ending neck injury in the 1984/85 season.

There was not a lot to cheer for if you were a fan of the Atlanta Flames, but the second-place finisher for the Calder Trophy in 1973-74 gave you a reason to come out to the arena.