910 career points is nothing to sneeze at, but it is not the first thing that people think about with Gary Roberts.  He was the type of player that every General Manager wanted to have, and every player wanted as a teammate.   He made everyone on his team just want to play better.

It did not take long for the number two choice of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft to establish himself as a force on the Vancouver Canucks.  Trevor Linden would be named the Canucks captain at the age of 21, and his nickname of “Captain Canuck” could be one of the most appropriate monikers in Hockey.

One of the biggest travesties in our eyes is that Pat Burns did not get into the Hockey Hall of Fame while he was alive. As Burns was dying of cancer, a large grass roots movement was afoot to get him inducted but alas the former Coach of the Year had to be elected posthumously. Burns always made his teams better, was beloved by fanbases and fittingly finally won a Stanley Cup in 2003 with the New Jersey Devils.

Scott Irwin spent a good time of his career teaming up with his brother Bill Irwin in various promotions either in a mask as the Super Destroyer in the South or as one half of the biker team, the Long Riders.  He was a tough customer who may not have been the most talented in the ring but looked like the guy at the end of the bar you would least want to mess with.  Despite his success with his brother, it was with another partner early in his career, that he captured WWE Tag Team gold when he donned the persona of Eric; one half of the Yukon Lumberjacks.  He died at the age of 35 from a brain tumor and likely would have had many good years in the ring left in him.