Where do you rate Mike Gartner among the best who never won a Stanley Cup?

Question

Congrats to #11 too who will finally have his # retired with the CAPS!!!!

What are some of your favorite highlights of Mike? What team did you like to see him play the most on during his playing days?

Do you think he will in the cup one day as a member of management?

Answer 1

in think bondra should be next, i mean Gartner held the record for goals until bondra so yea.  I never really got to see Gartner play im too young for that but i have had the pleasure of meeting him and getting him to sign my caps jersey so yay!  obviuosly i favor him as a cap

Answer 2

Very high, but what about Marcel Dionne, he too had great stats but never won a Cup.

My favourite highlight(S) do not involve any of his 708 goals.

It was during the ASG Weekend in 1993, the last played at the Montreal Forum, where as a substitute player for injured teammate Mark Messier he scored 4 goals in the game (16-6 Wales Conference win over the Campbell Conference), but had a mind-blowing time of 13.51 seconds in the skating competition, which remains a record to this day despite the advances in hockey skate technology. (I know because I was skating in Bauer Supreme 3000 skates in those days, the premiere skates of the time)

I do see him returning to the game in management, but which team he is involved with will determine whether he gets that elusive Cup or not.

Puck Dat -> good point in that the Caps were a sub-par team then but Gartner was a +60 during his time there (+67 career)

PS = I identify with him as a Capital, though he did allright as a Ranger (hard to visualise him as a North Star, Leaf or Coyote - to me anyway)

Answer 3

Can't think of any players who could rank higher than Mike who did not win the Cup.  Closest he came was being traded away from the Rangers the year they last won.

You don't score 700 goals in the NHL unless you can play the game but, Mike got a lot of ice time on not so great teams.

Pretty sure he was on the 87 Canada Cup team and that would have been his biggest moment.

He could still get his name on the old mug as part of a management team.

Answer 4

I loved him as a player. He was a great skater. I agree about his time in the skills competition . That will be very hard to beat. I do think he will be part of a management team that does win the cup. He is a pretty sharp guy and would help a team build. I would like to see that happen.

Answer 5

Directly behind the worst who all won cups!