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Krispy scores at Red Square game.
by David Lee on 01/12/09 at 08:41 PM ET
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On Saturday, a team of KHL Russian all-stars played an outdoor game against a team of “foreign” players. With Red Square looming in the background and -16C temperatures, a sparse crowd watched the foreign team, led by Jaromir Jagr, win 7-6.
The scoresheet was full of familiar and not-so-familiar names, including a very surprising one.
Former Washington Capitals defenceman Ben Clymer had a goal for the international team, as did Jaroslav Kudrna and Pavel Brendl.
Brendl, known in these parts as ”Krispy” was the #4 overall pick in 1999, but never amounted to anything in the NHL. He played parts of four seasons, totaling 78 games. 50 of those were with Philadelphia, another 26 with Carolina and two more with Phoenix. He managed just 22 (11/11) points in his NHL career and is one of the biggest high-first-round busts of all time.
Brendl dazzled the hockey world by putting up a quite impressive 134 (73/61) points in 68 games during the 1998-99 season with the Calgary Hitmen of the WHL. Patrik “Empty Net” Stefan was the first pick in the 1999 Entry draft, followed by the Sedinbots, then Krispy.
Long ago, I wrote in detail about how the first four picks of that 1999 draft went down.
To make the whole thing funnier, Carolina’s first round pick in that draft was Avi Tanabe. It was a remarkably bad draft class that featured just a few still active NHLers taken in the first round, but I always get a kick out of that whole ordeal.
It’s actually good to know that Krispy is still alive and doing something good.
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Brendl was phenomenal in the WHL, but a complete headcase.
Posted by James Mirtle from Toronto on 01/13/09 at 06:42 PM ET
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David Lee is a restaurant manager with an unused degree in political science. He can be found at Carolina Hurricanes games, Scrabble tournaments and indie-rock shows. Sometimes, all in the same day.
David has contributed to CBC.ca for their Stanley Cup playoff coverage in 2006 and to the New York Times Slapshot blog for theirs in 2008. Red and Black Hockey was founded in July of 2005.
An old classic, since you brought up ‘ol Krispy Kreme:
Posted by Carolina On Ice from Cary, NC on 01/12/09 at 10:29 PM ET