Players with no RC's at all

I'm going through the devils all time roster and I'm finding there are some players that have no issued cards at all,

here is who I have found:

Timo Blomqvist - 243 NHL games
Dave Cameron - 169 NHL games
Andres Carlsson - 104 NHL games
Rich Chernomaz - 51 NHL games
Jeff Christian - 18 NHL games
Don Dietrich - 28 NHL games
Dan Dorion - 4 NHL games
Larry Floyd - 12 NHL games
Alan Hepple - 3 NHL games
Bob Hoffmeyer - 198 NHL games
John Johannson - 5 NHL games
Sasha Lakovic - 37 NHL games



thats what I have so far, there are more for sure.
Who else does not have one?
It's hard to fathom anyone these day's not having a card when there are back up goalies who haven't seen the ice with 15 to 20 different cards to they're names.

I have a huge list of guys that played for the Caps at one point or another that do not have any RC's. I'm not sure off the top of my head or how much they played, either for the Caps or in the league in general, but most of them are from the 70's and 80's, when RC's weren't quite as big as they are now, or the last 15-20 years.

Gregory Stewart had a couple cups of coffee in a Habs uniform. All he has in cardboard is a 2006-07 Hamilton Bulldogs team set issue and the 2009-10 Canadiens Postcards. He's bounced around in the AHL the past couple years and is presently playing for the Belfast Giants of the EIHL.

For my Canuck rookie project - I think I found that there were 30-40 players who played at least one game for the Canucks that never got a "real" NHL RC. Obviously most were in the Topps/OPC era - but Lee Sweatt from 10-11 never did get one. Played a couple games (I believe before the "cutoff" date) and never got one in 11-12. Granted he did sign with Ottawa between the two seasons and then retire, but still would've thought he'd get one or two.

When I was building my all-time Oilers RC project, I came across a lot of names with no real RC (i.e. an NHL card made by a licensed manufacturer).

There hasn't been a single player in team history though, that didn't have a least 1 card of some kind. There's several 1-5 game wonders from the first couple of years... who only have cards in the team issued 10th Anniversary Set (inserted into programs during the 88-89 season) and also a lot of players that only had minor league or European issued cards.

As other posts have already mentioned though, these are all players from the 1979-80 season through the 1990s. Modern players, it's very rare that they don't get cardboard of somekind (see Mylan Kytnar!)

Are you looking for a list of guys with no 'true RC' or a list of guys with no cardboard at all? I can come back an pop out a complete list of the no-RC guys from the Oilers if you like.

I though of Greg Stewart right away - already mentioned above.

The only Soo Greyhound I can think of is Brad Tiley - played 8 games for Phoenix, and 2 for Philadelphia, and did not earn a RC.

kmitchel said:

For my Canuck rookie project - I think I found that there were 30-40 players who played at least one game for the Canucks that never got a "real" NHL RC. Obviously most were in the Topps/OPC era - but Lee Sweatt from 10-11 never did get one. Played a couple games (I believe before the "cutoff" date) and never got one in 11-12. Granted he did sign with Ottawa between the two seasons and then retire, but still would've thought he'd get one or two.

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Bill Sweatt had RC in 4 products last year:

2011-12 Panini Contenders #199 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Panini Titanium #150 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Pinnacle #358 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Upper Deck #496 Bill Sweatt YG RC

EDIT - In fact, you've featured his Titanium /41 RC and YG in past mail posts, and you've probably picked up the Pinnacle and Contenders already.

mclean_m said:

I though of Greg Stewart right away - already mentioned above.

The only Soo Greyhound I can think of is Brad Tiley - played 8 games for Phoenix, and 2 for Philadelphia, and did not earn a RC.




Bill Sweatt had RC in 4 products last year:

2011-12 Panini Contenders #199 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Panini Titanium #150 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Pinnacle #358 Bill Sweatt RC
2011-12 Upper Deck #496 Bill Sweatt YG RC

EDIT - In fact, you've featured his Titanium /41 RC and YG in past mail posts, and you've probably picked up the Pinnacle and Contenders already.

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He was talking about Lee... not Bill

Orca Pod said:

He was talking about Lee... not Bill

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Randy's right

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Sweatt [still a Canuck/Wolves player 24 year old LW] did have the 4 cards mentioned as he played 2 games with the Canucks in the 11-12 season [December 8, 2011] and got rookies later that season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Sweatt [retired 27 year old D-man] the older brother played 3 games in 10-11 including scoring the GWG against Nashville in his debut on Jan 26, 2011. I guess that was after the cut-off and with his retirement in the off-season, both Panini and UD decided to skip him in 11-12.

There are all the goalies with at least one game in NHL and with no official RC. Luk.

Abbot, George
Adams, John
Aiken, Don
Aitkenhead, Andy
Almas, Red
Anderson, Lorne
Bach, Ryan
Baron, Marco
Bastien, Baz
Behrend, Marc
Bell, Gordie
Bennett, Harvey
Bibeault, Paul
Binette, Andre
Bittner, Richard
Blake, Mike
Boisvert, Gilles
Boutin, Rollie
Bouvrette, Lionel
Branigan, Andy
Broderick, Len
Brooks, Art
Brophy, Frank
Brown, Andy
Brown, Ken
Brunetta, Mario
Bullock, Bruce
Buzinski, Steve
Caley, Don
Caprice, Frank
Carter, Lyle
Clancy, King
Cleghorn, Odie
Cleghorn, Sprague
Clifford, Chris
Colvin, Les
Conacher, Charlie
Corsi, Jim
Courteau, Maurice
Cowley, Wayne
Cox, Abbie
Cutts, Don
Cyr, Claude
Dadswell, Doug
D'Alessio, Corrie
Damore, Nick
D'Amour, Marc
Daskalakis, Cleon
Decourcy, Bob
Defelice, Norm
Dickie, Bill
Dion, Connie
Dolson, Dolly
Dopson, Rob
Dowie, Bruce
Dumas, Michel
Dupuis, Bob
Dyck, Ed
Eliot, Darren
Ellacott, Ken
Erickson, Chad
Evans, Claude
Exelby, Randy
Farr, Rocky
Ford, Brian
Francis, Emile
Franks, Jim
Frederick, Ray
Friesen, Karl
Gardiner, Bert
Gatherum, Dave
Gauthier, Paul
Gauthier, Sean
Gelineau, Jack
Gill, Andre
Goverde, David
Grant, Benny
Gray, Gerry
Gray, Harrison
Greenlay, Mike
Guenette, Steve
Hebert, Sammy
Heinz, Rick
Henderson, John
Henry, Gord
Highton, Hec
Himes, Normie
Hoganson, Paul
Högosta, Goran
Holden, Mark
Holland, Ken
Holland, Robbie
Holmes, Harry
Horner, Red
Champoux, Bob
Chouinard, Mathieu
Ireland, Randy
Irons, Robbie
Jackson, Doug
Jackson, Percy
Janaszak, Steve
Jenkins, Roger
Jensen, Darren
Johnson, Bob
Junkin, Joe
Kaarela, Jari
Kamppuri, Hannu
Keenan, Don
Kleisinger, Terry
Klymkiw, Julian
Lacroix, Frenchy
LaFerriere, Rick
Laxton, Gord
LeDuc, Albert
Legris, Claude
Lehman, Hugh
Levasseur, Jean-Louis
Levinsky, Alex
Lindsay, Bert
Lockett, Ken
Lockhart, Howard
LoPresti, Sam
Loustel, Ron
MacKenzie, Shawn
Maneluk, George
Marois, Jean
Martin, Seth
May, Darrell
Mayer, Gilles
McAuley, Ken
McGrattan, Tom
McKay, Ross
McKichan, Steve
McLachlan, Murray
McLelland, Dave
McLeod, Don
McLeod, Jim
McNamara, Gerry
Middlebrook, Lindsay
Millar, Al
Miller, Joe
Mitchell, Ivan
Moffat, Mike
Moore, Alfie
Moore, Robbie
Morissette, Jean-Guy
Mrazek, Jerome
Mummery, Harry
Munro, Dunc
Murphy, Hal
Murray, Mickey
Newton, Cam
Olesevich, Dan
Oleschuk, Bill
Ouimet, Ted
Pageau, Paul
Parent, Bob
Patrick, Lester
Pelletier, Marcel
Pettie, Jim
Plaxton, Hugh
Pusey, Chris
Racine, Bruce
Raymond, Alain
Redding, George
Redquest, Greg
Rheaume, Herb
Ricci, Nick
Riggin, Dennis
Ring, Bob
Rivard, Fern
Roberts, Moe
Rosati, Mike
Rupp, Pat
Rutledge, Wayne
Sands, Charlie
Sands, Mike
Scott, Ron
Sharples, Scott
Shields, Al
Shulmistra, Richard
Schaefer, Joe
Skidmore, Paul
Sneddon, Bob
Spooner, Red
Spring, Jesse
St. Laurent, Sam
Starr, Harold
Stein, Phil
Stevenson, Doug
Stewart, Charles
Stewart, Jim
Stuart, Herb
Sylvestri, Don
Tataryn, Dave
Teno, Harvey
Toppazzini, Jerry
Tucker, Ted
Turner, Joe
Walsh, Flat
Watt, Jim
Wetzel, Carl
Willis, Jordan
Wilson, Lefty
Winkler, Hal
Wood, Alex
Worthy, Chris
Young, Doug
Zanier, Mike

Avs have 4 total. I guess I benefited from them only being around since 95-96.

• Jeff Buchanan
• Mike Gaul
• Yves Sarault - even though he has 1997-98 Score Team Set cards (plug for my mail post)
• Brian White

Cole

Orca Pod said:

He was talking about Lee... not Bill

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Crap... I should have known better than to correct Kevin about Canucks' RCs. Carry on.

The Tampa Bay Lightning have four or five, depending on how you count:
Allan Egeland
Matt Hervey
Brent Peterson
Corey Spring
Jonathan Boutin (backup goalie)

The Columbus Blue Jackets have just one: Michael Gaul.

According to my Database there are about 1800 players since the inaugural season. Here are the ones that have gotten 100 points or more: (this is my personally retrieved data so there may be a few errors)


Player_Name PtsOfSum
Carveth, Joe 339
Warwick, Grant 289
Egan, Pat 230
Poile, Norman 229
Horeck, Pete 224
Hamill, Robert 222
Kaleta, Alex 213
Romnes, Elwyn 203
Ezinicki, Bill 184
Smith, Kenny 171
Broadbent, Harry 167
Reeds, Mark 159
Gallinger, Don 153
Lalonde, Edward 151
Harmon, Glen 146
Milks, Hib 128
Virta, Hannu 126
McDonald, Wilfred 123
Pike, Alf 119
Currie, Glen 118
Darragh, Harold 117
Cameron, Harry 117
Boutilier, Paul 110
Patrick, Steve 108
Couture, Rosario 104
Fillion, Bob 103
Gagne, Art 100
Reardon, Terry 100

Here's list of some Finnish players who've played atleast one NHL game and (as far as i know) doesn't have any rookie cards:

Timo Blomqvist
Miika Elomo
Jari Gronstrand
Ari Haanpaa
Raimo Helminen
Risto Jalo
Kari Jalonen
Marko Jantunen
Arto Javanainen
Timo Jutila
Jari Kaarela
Hannu Kamppuri
Markku Kyllonen
Petteri Lehto
Antero Lehtonen
Tapio Levo
Kari Makkonen
Anssi Melametsa
Jukka Porvari
Simo Saarinen
Jyrki Seppa
Kai Suikkanen
Raimo Summanen
Jari Torkki
Hannu Virta

One of my business partners played 26 games with the Islanders in the 80's. Neal Coulter. Never had a card at all. His career was ended by Dana Murzyn in a game in Calgary.

At the National I asked Brian Price if ITG would ever make a card of a guy like that and it didn't take long for Brian to say no, lol.

I have the benefit of hearing cool stories about Bossy, Trottier and LaFontaine and Neal plays for the Flames Alumni so its cool that he is still active in the game but I doubt he's ever been on any card company's radar.

Although not completely related to the topic, I'm really surprised at the number of guys who don't have a Young Gun RC.

Backes and Quick come to mind right off the bat.

Kyle said:

Although not completely related to the topic, I'm really surprised at the number of guys who don't have a Young Gun RC.

Backes and Quick come to mind right off the bat.

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Well I don't believe anyone thought Quick would turn out this good. He was also a mid-season start, which limits your chanc of not getting a young gun.

Some others that fall into that catagory (off the top of my head):
Sergei Kostitisyn
Kari Lehtonen
Kyle Wellwood
Brad Boyes
Josh Harding
Jacob Markstrom
Max Pacioretty

gomaz said:

One of my business partners played 26 games with the Islanders in the 80's. Neal Coulter. Never had a card at all. His career was ended by Dana Murzyn in a game in Calgary.

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The player who was drafted behind him, never had any NHL cards either but did get 170 odd MLB issues.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mccaski01.shtml