To continue our countdown today, we bring you the number 31. Sponsored by Sheetz or some shit. There have been 10 players in Penguins history to wear the number 31. Those players include Michel Plasse, Nick Ricci, Vincent Tremblay, Brian Ford, Carl Mokosak, Rick Tabaracci, Ken Wregget, Ron Tugnutt, Rich Parent, and Sebastian Caron.
We could give Wregget or Tugnutt some props, but we want to continue with the X Generation theme and today we bring you Sebastien Caron.
This puck probably ended up in the back of the net...
Caron played for the Pittsburgh Penguins from 2003-2006. If you're not stupid and can count, that would be 4 years, but because Gary Bettman sucks and the 2004-05 lockout, Caron only played 3 seasons in Pittsburgh. He played in 90 games tallying a record of 24-47-12 with a .892 save percentage and 3.49 GAA (and you guys say Fleury sucks). Let's be honest though, Caron played on 3 of the worst Penguins teams in history.
In 2002-03, Caron's first year as a Penguin, the team went 27-44-6-5 for 65 points. 65 points is the 6th lowest total in franchise history and to that point, the lowest total since a point was rewarded for ties and OTL. His second year, the 2003-04 season, the Penguins went 23-47-8-4 for 58 points. That team was so bad, that it set the franchise to the future by allowing them to draft Sidney Crosby.
Instead of writing about Caron, we're going to go into the depths of that 2003-04 team just to see how bad they really were.
In October of that season, the Penguins went 2-4-3-0. The worst loss of that month was suffered against the New York Islanders by a score of 7-2. In that game on the Isle, Alexsey Morozov and Rico Fata scored for the Penguins. Sean Bergenheim, Jason Blake, Mariusz Czerkawski (2), Trent Hunter (2), and Janne Niinima scored for the Islanders. What is a Mariusz Czerkawsi?!? Caron played in net for the Penguins making 31 saves on 38 shots.
The Penguins opened up November with a win, but ended the month at 5-12-4-1. Their worse loss of the month came on the 8th in Tampa Bay, a 9-0 defeat. In that game, Caron suffered the loss and allowed 8 goals in 48 minutes before being replaced by Marc-Andre Fleury (who probably played in Florida the night before). Tampa Bay was lead with goals by Ruslan Fedotenko (2), Pavel Kubina, Vincent Lecavalier (3), Brad Lukowich (who?!), Fredrik Modin, and Cory Stillman.
You'll notice a trend of this team allowing goals to random, shitty players.
The December Penguins ended the 2003 calendar year with a record of 9-20-5-3. They lost to the Calgary Flames 6-1 and our boy Caron was in net....again. Milan Kraft scored the lone Penguin goal and Shean Donovan (3), Jordan Leopold, Oleg Saprykin (who?!?), and Stephane Yelle eached scored for the Flames. Somehow, Jarome Iginla didn't register a point.
2004 didn't begin any better than 2003 ended with the Penguins ending on a 4 game losing streak. After beating the Flyers early in the month, the Penguins didn't win another game....for awhile. They ended January on a 16 game losing streak and that streak extended into February. The Penguins went on a total of an 18 game losing streak from January 13th and the final loss of that streak was on February 22. Of all of those losses, only one of those were of the OTL variety.... During that streak, the Penguins allowed 83 goals.
The 2003-04 Penguins ended the season on a 2 game win streak and concluded one of the worst seasons in franchise history.
Since Caron sucked, it was better to look at how bad the entire team was and not just him
Tune in tomorrow to see who #30 is. Only a month to go.
Go Pens
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