Meet Orland Kurtenbach. A journeyman's journeyman. Although Orland 'only' played for 10 different teams, he played for the Rangers on two separate occasion, and the Canucks three. He was defensively responsible, a big hitter, had good size (6,2 200lbs) and later on in his career, before a series of injuries eventually ended his career, he found a great scoring touch after the Vancouver Canucks took him in the expansion draft. That Canucks team was horrible. He was the best centre on a team without much depth at centre, and although he put up decent numbers (in his first two seasons he scored 45 goals), it obviously was not enough to stop the team from going on to win only 90 of the next 312 games.
Shawn Horcoff has been inspirational to many hockey fans. From a grinder to a first line forward, to the all star game. Its hard not to be happy for him and his accomplishments, crooked nose and all. That being said, his career trajectory is looking to be similar to Orland's. As soon as he finds a scoring touch, injuries seriously threaten to derail his career. Lets hope his injury is minor, and he keeps producing a reasonable levels. Because we really don't want to watch the 70-71 Canucks team play the next 70 games.
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