The number 16 has been worn an awful lot during Penguins history and has been worn by the following players: Wayne Hicks, Ron Snell, dumbass Rangers GM Glen Sather, Sheldon Kannegiesser, Ron Lalonde, Lew Morrison, Derek Sanderson, Kim Davis, Gary McAdam, Mike Meeker, Marc Chorney, Mark Taylor, Jim McGeough, Kevin LaVallee, Charlie Simmer, Steve Gotaas, Stop it right here, no freeze it Jay Caufield, Mike Hudson, Joe Dziedzic, NBC Color Guy and the worst coach in Penguins history Ed Olczyk, Jeff Serowik, WBS Superstar Dennis Bonvie, Franchise Savior Kris Beech, Penalty Shot superstar Erik Christensen, The greatest NHL player in the world Paul Bissonnette, vanilla midget Chris Conner, Cal O'Reilly, and FlatStanley Brandon Sutter.
The last few posts have been about guys who have won Stanley Cups with the Penguins. We can promise you, today's player, is not one of them. We could've done Telestrator Jay Caufield or Edzo or even BranDong but how could you pass up the opportunity to write about the greatest prospect to ever come to Pittsburgh in Kris Beech.
What a degenerate
Kris Beech was drafted 7th overall by the Washington Crapitals Capitals (side note: How awful are their Winter Classic jerseys for next year?)
Whoever designed these probably should be fired or have to ride in a car with Paul Walker or something...
Anyways, Kris Beech was irrelevant to anyone, until the summer of 2001. After the 2000-2001 year, you may remember the saying by Penguin great and future Hall of Famer Jaromir Jagr (yes, we still love him here) about how he was dying alive in Pittsburgh. It was also no joke that the Penguins were struggling financially (thanks Jerome Bettis you asshole even though this is a few years after this story). Anyways, Penguins GM Craig Patrick granted Jagr his wish by trading Jagr and Frantisek Kucera to the Washington Capitals for Kris Beech, Michel Sivek, Ross Lupaschuk and future considerations. If this was not the most lopsided trade in NHL history, find me one better.
Back to the degenerate Beech. He eventually joined the Penguins in 2001-02 and played in 79 games tallying a whopping 10 goals and 15 assists (probably was 5th in scoring on the team). Over the next two years, which were two of the worst years in Penguins history, Beech played a total of 16 games and had a whopping two assists in those games. In 2005 he was traded to Nashville and then at the trade deadline in 2006, he found his way back to Washington along with Nashville's first round pick for Brendan Witt. The Caps took Semyon Varlamov with that pick. In 2007, he signed with the Blue Jackets as a UFA and then was put on Waivers to Washington and then eventually, somehow found his way back to Pittsburgh in which he played in 5 games and didn't do shit.
Kris Beech last played Pro Hockey in Sweden in 2012 and we aren't really sure if he's still alive. He was a terrible player in Pittsburgh and will forever be remembered for being a part of the worst trade in Penguins history. I guess you could say that Beech did help win the Penguins a Stanley Cup because he was involved in a trade that got the Caps Varlamov so they could take a massive dump on him in Game 7 of 2009.
Whatever, that's all that Kris Beech is worth. On to 15.
Go Pens
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