Can you name an unlucky player? If so, what happened?

Sami Salo is also one of only three ice hockey players that have lost all four major ice hockey finals (Stanley cup final, Olympic final, World championship final and World cup final) with his fellow countrymen Toni Lydman and Jarkko Ruutu.

That "balls of steel" chant is hilarious. Also, pretty much the ultimate show of respect. Only in hockey, man :D

I remember watching Beau Bennett get hurt celebrating. I was watching the game at my grandparents’ house and I remember saying “I’m pretty sure he just got hurt again, by celebrating a goal”. Sure enough, he did. Dude had glass bones and paper skin

Josh Harding spent several seasons with the Wild organization as a #2 goalie, starting to become a #1 with insane stats around 2012 - the same year as the lockout and Harding being diagnosed with MS. Still came back for one more year in the NHL before retiring.

Ollie Jokinen played 1231 regular season games over a 16 year career, but only made the playoffs once, losing the 1st round. During the 2014-15 season he was playing with the Nashville Predators who were heading towards the playoffs, but the Predators traded him to the Leafs just a few weeks before the trade deadline so Jokinen would miss the playoffs again. Unfortunately he's also remembered for almost killing his teammate Richard Zednik when his skate slashed him in the neck. So yeah, Jokinen was pretty unlucky

Hossa 3 with different teams, L-L-W, Perry 3 dirrent teams L-L-L, Maroon 2 different teams W-W-W-L. Sometimes you just get lucky.

Theres only a few certainty in life 1.Death 2.Taxes 3.Beau Bennet getting injured 4. And RTH dropping that fireeee🔥

Perry at least already has a cup....he's unlucky but still has the hardware.

“…but a nut injury…” best RTH line of all time

Ah bubblewrap Bennett, the guy could just never catch a break XD he lived the dream though, got his hands on the greatest trophy in the game and made the most of every second of it. Hossa is also hilarious, as a penguins fan his comments about having a better shot at a cup in Detroit only for him to lose again in another finals against his former team is probably my second favourite moment from that years playoffs :’)

There is only one venomous snake species in Finland and of course Sami Salo managed to get bitten by one, but its not that dangerous if treatment is given fast and the anti-venom is very commonly available so he was not really in that big of danger. The more interesting thing is that he quite often got injured doing something else than hockey on his free time.

What about Brian Propp? He made it to finals 5 times and lost every time ('80, '85, '87 with the flyers, '90 with the bruins and '91 with the north stars).

I can’t fathom how much pain these guys can be in from these constant injuries. I severely sprained my wrist once and I still get pain from it when I use it too much. Like times that by 100 for these guys. Wow.

Good stuff Rob! Would love a list of the unluckiest TEAMS if you haven’t done that already

Perry has won the cup with Anaheim Ducks 2007. And he's part of the three gold club; stanley cup, world cup and two olympic gold medals. Not that unlucky.

2:19 I love Nathan Gerbe against a Chara background

The first dude is the best one. the photo holding the cup in a body cast 😂😂😂😂 great video my g.

Great video as always

6:16 Crosby and Malkin have both also played in 4 cup finals

Hey Rob, currently dealing with a high ankle sprain myself. How long did you take off before stepping back on the ice?

Not really sure why but when I was younger Sami Salo was my favorite player. I remember when he wasn't on the Canucks anymore I asked my dad about it and he said "he was always so injured they cut him" or something like that (I was like 8 at the time I don't really remember). I was very sad and it's a shame he went through so many injuries in his career.

Dale Hawerchuk. He was a Winnipeg Jets legend yet during the 1980s the Jets could never get out of the first round of the playoffs because they always had to play either the Edmonton Oilers or Calgary Flames and the Jets would always get creamed.

You could probably throw Jarome Iginla on the list of unlucky players as well

4:30 The puck! His groin! It works on so many levels!

Corey Perry's 'curse' spoiled Patrick Maroon's Stanley Cup good luck winning streak.

Beau Bennett. A major mouthpiece of the “bring back the Mexican Pizza” movement. Thank you, Beau Bennett.

Im watching before i try to fall asleep. I dont click off the video during the outro and suddenly Jared Leto yells in my ear BURY ME BURY ME lol

Rob I always wondered what hand you were 😭 but that picture gave me the answer, I had the same jersey!

Poor Sami Salo had to learn the hard way that the Stanley Cup is the 2nd most important cup in hockey.

The first dude is the best one. the photo holding the cup in a body cast great video my g.

Thing about Hossa, if he was still in Ottawa in 2007 he’d been there 4 years in a row

For a while there I thought Sami Salo was different people with similar sounding names because he had multiple "career-ending" injuries.

Crosby has been to 4 finals, everyone forgets the year we lost to Detroit in 2008. And that 08 team really started the run.

That thumbnail is nuts

I had a real bad high ankle sprain. It’s been ten years and that foots arch is flattening now causing more issues. Getting old sucks. 😂

Tom House was a relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers. Like all relievers he hung out during games in the Bullpen. In the old-old Rangers home park the Bullpen was adjacent to the stands running parallel to the seats along the 1st Base side of the field. One day Tom had a friend sitting s few rows up behind the Bullpen. Just for fun, he decided to start flicking sunflower seeds at his friend who was about 20 feet away. After an inning or so of doing this House felt tightness in his elbow and ended up on the 60Day IR. True story.

I'd put Rasmus Ristolainen in the most unlucky players, because he went from some historically bad teams in Buffalo to some pretty bad teams in Philly. As Jack Edwards said, he leads the league in frustration. He's never even sniffed the playoffs, let alone a winning season.

The story of Salo’s nut bag, along with the similar Nick Lidstrom story almost make me want to use a protective cup as part of my EDC.

Ben Bishop was unlucky as hell. One of the best goalies in the league but had constant injuries and ended up retiring early. Such a shame

You can't tell me that Bennett did not have an injury before the celly. Every shot or even pass seems like more impact on the shoulder than that

Bobby Ryan and his hands injuries while he was in Ottawa is an all-timer for unlucky injuries

Beau Bennett has always been a good sport about his bad luck. He makes jokes about it all the time.

First person that pops into my mind when I think of unlucky player is Bryan Berard. Poor guy literally had his eyeball chopped in half by a stick.

I love how Bennetts only cellys in the vid are just him casually raising his hands. He does an actual celly and gets injured

You're damn right injuries can linger. I play hockey as a goalie, about 3-4 years ago, my heel hit the post causing me to lose my balance, do almost full split, and I hit my knees straight on the ice. My kneecaps were dislocated and relocated instantly. I still feel pain in them, whenever I almost slip walking.

Jeff Skinner. Has never made the NHL playoffs in his 850+ game career spanning 13 years. Played his whole career with the Hurricanes before being traded to the Sabres just a couple years before they have grown into a dominant force of a team.

I was at that Pens-Caps game when Oshie planted him. The whole building felt that one.

I don't know about shoulders or ankles.. but I can say that I tore a muscle in my lower back in 1994 and I STILL feel it to this day

“Balls. Of. Steel. Balls. Of. Steel.” Classic

You could say Rhett Warrener was unlucky. Being on the losing end of probably the two most talked about NHL finals goal calls.

Beau Bennetts story is kinda sad but a tad bit funny. Injures himself gets back gets injured gets back gets mumps gets injured gets back gets injured

8:02 Perry had the comfort of being a 2007 Stanley Cup Champion.

I was laughing when i saw auston mathews: 1st round

6:38, Perry been there, done that! At least he won in Anaheim years before

5:24 I thought for SURE it was going to say "Skimmed Nut Bag" somewhere

Do we start taking bets now whether Tampa makes it to the finals and then loses?

6:05 Toronto could have and most likely have made the Final in 2019 had they knocked off Boston, and had they survived Tampa Bay last season as well, but lost both times (especially 2022 for sure, but might have beat St. Louis in 2019)

Corey Perry was also in 4 stanley cup finals

How do you not have Thornton up there on that graphic, seriously, Matthew’s up there but not Thornton, wow

I remember when Adam McQuaid concussed himself when he tripped over a suitcase in his apartment.

1 cup, 11 playoff appearances, 4 conference finals, 2 regular season conference championships, 1 Hart trophy, 1 Rocket richard trophy, #2 behind selanne in franchise goals, #3 in points and assists….. need I go on further to say it wasn’t a “decade of disappointment with the ducks” for Perry

Patrick Thoresen also took a puck to the nards, a Mike Green slapshot. As he was in pain on the ice and couldnt move the Caps scored the winner

Pat LaFontaine played in the 1984 Stanley Cup Final, and injured Edmonton Goalie Grant Fuhr in Game 3, causing him to miss the last 2 games of the series.

My boy Salo made the Canucks a much better team whenever he was on the ice… but usually he was the one on ice 😂

Man that balls of steel chant 😂💀

Perry got one a duck tho with pronger :) would be crazy tho if he hadn’t

Sami "Balls of Steel" Salo. It has a nice ring to it 😂.

I'm working on year 2 of a high ankle sprain during a puck battle. Getting old Suhhhhks 😕

Henrik lundqvist that's the name I'm picking die hard Ranger fan This guy was the backbone and they couldn't get it done for him He did everything he could do to help his team win going to go to the Hall of Fame with no Stanley cup This guy's got Olympic gold he's got championships from his country You name it he's got it except for the Stanley cup poor guy seriously He deserve to have a cup raised

Balls of steel hahahah the greatest crowd chant in history

Bill Masterton was rather unlucky.

Actually it would be Marc Andre Fleury for most finals appearances among active players. 2008, 2009, 2016, 2017 and 2018. Granted he didn’t play in the 16 or 17 finals but without him, we dont get there, he got us to the 2016 playoffs. And 2017 he single handedly got us by Washington.

Lafontaine played in the Stanley Cup finals with the Islanders in 1984

Beau Bennett somehow accumulated almost $6 million throughout his career. Hope he's doing well. Was always a big fan of his.

How brittle is that Bennett guy? He probably gets injured from waking up in the morning.

Corey Perry is going to the finals again! Lets hope he wins this time...

KZfaq archives tell me that the unluckiest NHL player was whichever latest guy that fought Bob Probert lol

8:53 perry deserves it. gives marchand a run for his money.

The majority never get to be on a cup team, that's why it's such a big deal, like all the major sports, most never get a chance to play the big series.

Winning the cup is so hard. So many things need to go correctly etc. So many great players have not won

You said maroon has the most with 4. But does crosby not have that too?

I’ve been hit in the nuts by a maybe 20-30mph shot, I don’t even want to know what a Duncan Keith slap shot to the huts would feel like

You say Maroon has the record most finals appearances of any current player but Corey Perry also has 4. He won the cup in 06-07. As have Crosby, Letang, and Malkin. They lost in 08 before winning 3.

I don't know if i'd call Hossa unlucky, still has the 3 cups. Marcel Dionne though. OOF 18 seasons, most points for a non-cup winner, 1771 points

Forgot to add that hossa had to retire due to an ALERGY to his pads… oh and the Sedin sisters had pretty bad luck. Literally lead to their fans burning down Vancouver in 2011

Scott melanby lost in 95 with Detroit and the next year with Florida with a record of 0 win 8 losses in the finals while Claude Lemieux would win the cup with the devils in 1995 and with Colorado in 1996 with a record of 8-0.

4:34 I didn’t think Z looked like that

You realize crosby went to the same amount of finals appearances as maroon. Crosby won 3 cups but went to 4 finals as well as maroon

Yup!! I shattered a goalie’s testicles so yes those can be not only extremely painful but dangerous. I know he spent a couple days in hospital and lost at least 1 testicle. Not sure if he was ever able to have kids as we were just 17.

5:40, wtf it Matthews doing on that graph?

Cujo was also unlucky and bobby lou but omg bobby lou was cursed and fleeced

Carey Price is one for me that's unlucky the guy was a beast in the net and never got a Stanley Cup, just imagine what he could of won if he was with Tampa, or Colorado

That Datsyuk goal tho

Always go for the nuts

I believe Lafontaine played in the 84 finals when the islanders lost to the oilers. Could be wrong.

Olli Jokinen. 17 seasons in NHL. 1231 games. 750 points. No Stanley Cup. And why...? He has only ONE playoffs series with six games. 1231 regular season games. 6 playoffs games.

The curse of Beau Bennett 😅

What about Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau… both of them never won the Stanley Cup given their long NHL careers… came oh so close in 2016 against my Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals.

Perry may have hit a 3 Pete of Ls but he did win a cup, vast majority of players never got close