The Edmonton Oilers keep dressing the worst player I’ve ever seen
- There’s always some stooge on a NHL team that only the coach knows why he’s playing
Why is Vincent Desharnais on an NHL roster?
Thanks to the flat salary cap for the past few years, and the existence of a hard cap at all for nearly two decades, a lot of NHL rosters look the same. You can’t build super teams, and if you weren’t lucky in the past few years to get a high draft pick to take a true star, you’re left with a lot of grafters. Every team has at least a couple plugs on the bottom two lines or may be the bottom pairings. Maybe they’re fast. Maybe they’re good penalty killers. Maybe they’re good forecheckers. Maybe they’re a bum-slaying d-man, the kind that can push the play against fellow punters but is overmatched when they get out on the ice against the top of an opponent’s roster
And then sometimes rosters are filled out by guys who look like they won a contest. The team had to throw a jersey on someone, and this giblet just happened to be in the area. The Edmonton Oilers’ Vincent Desharnais is clearly the worst player in these NHL playoffs (and Brendan Smith has made an appearance for the Devils!), and if he continues on this path and he keeps drugging coaches to get him into the lineup (surely the only way he keeps getting to dress), he may be in the running for worst player of all-time.