HEYYYYY FANNNSSSS: In 34 days....

In 34 days the Pittsburgh Penguins will begin their quest for the 4th Stanley Cup in Penguins franchise history. Andre St. Laurent, Tom Thornbury, Greg Tebbutt, Randy Hiller, Ted Nolan, Todd Charlesworth, Lee Griffin, Dwight Mathiasen, Scott Young, Dave Michalyuk, Greg Brown, Rusty Fitzgerald, Jeff Christian, Peter Popovic, Garth Snow, Ross Lupaschuk, Ramzi Abid, and Jonathan Filewich. There's a couple decent names in there, but for the most, yikes. What a bunch of degenerates.

Ramzi Abid

Abid was somehow drafted twice into the NHL. He was first drafted 28th overall by the Colorado Avalanche in the 1998 National Hockey League Entry Draft, then in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft he went 85th overall to the ~~Arizona~~ Phoenix Coyotes.

Absolutely no clue how someone can be drafted twice. 28th overall isn't a low draft pick by any means either. He then goes 85th overall which again isn't exactly a terribly low pick. No idea what happened and Abid doesn't exactly his past archived on the internet like players who actually did something important. Maybe teams couldn't deal with him sucking so bad?

Regardless, Ramzi Abid join the Penguins organization on March 11, 2003. He was traded from the Coyotes along with Dan Focht, and Guillaume Lefebvre in exchange for Jan Hrdina and Francois Leroux.

Abid spent the 2002-2003 and 2003-2004 seasons in Pittsburgh. He tore his ACL in there at some point, which is a factor in him only playing 19 career games for the Penguins. During those 19 games he scored 3 goals and registered 2 assists. He was a -5 for the Penguins during those game and was rung up for 29 PIMs. Thanks to the 2004-2005 NHL Lockout (Bettman sucks), Abid spent that entire 2004-2005 season playing for the Wilkes-Barre Penguins. That season in Wilkes-Barre would end up being his final year in Pittsburgh as he left for the Atlanta Thrashers the following year.

Other than spending some time in Nashville, Abid didn't do anything else in the NHL. He's played all over the place during his career and the most recent thing I saw on him was that he signed a contract in 2013 with the "Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg" on the DEL.

He did fight Brenden Morrow once when he played for the Coyotes, so there's that I guess.

What a fight

Honorable Mentions

Randy Hiller

It was fun to make fun on Abid, but we had to at least mention Randy Hiller. He spent 7 season in Pittsburgh and was apart of the 1991 Penguins Stanley Cup team. He played in 343 games scoring 13 goals and registering 79 assists. He also was on the Penguins coaching staff as an assistant during the 1997-1998 and 2001-2002 seasons.

Garth Snow

Former Penguins goalie and current shitty NHL General Manager. Snow played in 35 games for the Penguins, posting a 14-15-4 record, a .900% save percentage, 2.98 goals against average, and 3 shutouts.

Garth Snow was the goalie in net during the game against the Maple Leafs when Mario Lemieux came out of retirement, so he did do that right I guess.