The Worst Team in NHL History

[@zeus014]

I seem to recall an article back in '75 when Washington was setting this dubious record. I'm paraphrasing, but one of the quotes in that story was along the lines of "Champions drink champagne from the Stanley cup, but for the Capitals it's bloody Marys. (Apparently Bloody Marys was the go-to-drink for several Capitals players after every loss er, "game"). But eventually the Capitals did find their groove and, a couple decades later were one of the league's powerhouse teams.

[@Classicrocker6119]

The Capitals only had one road victory in 1974-75 as well! Nice video! Look forward to seeing more!

[@exexalien]

4:33 "No offense to these guys, but I've never even heard of them...I don't know if I've ever heard of one of these guys...I mean, no offense to them..." I think it was nice of you to point this out, in case any players from that awful Caps team happen to be watching this video!

[@Elementsoftheory29]

What it shows is that he is younger . And not a hockey historian ( yet ) . Nothing wrong with it , and you are correct his honesty is nice . But , Ron Low was a decent goalie for multiple teams , also an assistant coach and head coach in the nhl in the 90's and 2000's for the Ryr and Oliers has 2 Stanley Cups as well . Historian would have quick Google searched this and found this out . Great video , and innocent comment ( 5 mins of searching ) he could have left that comment out .

[@thomaschevalier9356]

Jimmy Anderson was the first coach for the caps saw him play in Springfield 4 the Kings gave my friends and myself Hockey sticks at a Saturday practice really great person and hockey player

[@robertharkins5737]

JA was a beer salesman too. He was a nice guy. He would always wear his AHL championship ring which had a missing stone. My kids would ask him to see the ring and he was always happy to oblige and tell how he hoped to find the stone one day.

[@kennymik1509]

Cool video! I enjoyed it! Never heard of the Philadelphia Quakers. Looked them up... interesting. Thanks for the trail if bread crumbs.

[@webo4208]

Good video, just found your channel and subscribed. Looking forward to more videos

[@hockeynerd157]

Thanks! Appreciate it

[@plaidchuck]

I was a kid then and even I knew about that brutal season for San Jose. Always felt bad for Irbe

[@saulschlapik6818]

The Philadelphia Quakers had been the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1925 to 1930. They only lasted one year in Philly and dropped out of the league.

[@hockeynerd157]

Thanks. Cool fact

[@ront769]

I knew it was going to be the Washington Crapitals.

[@ferrisreels66]

Glad to see the 1980-81 Winnipeg Jets aren't t on your list.

[@hockeynerd157]

Haha, they were close

[@stevenbauer4799]

Jets were raped of all of their talent thanks to nhl/wha merger and nhl old guard owners who wanted no part of merger and wanted to steal their players.

[@Kinger1625]

Very cool! Keep it up. Liked and subbed. NO A.I! ❤

[@7555mac]

the worst canadian team or are overseas teams getting better.

[@philips2327]

nice video mannn!

[@kennymik1509]

Maybe you or someone can assist. I read an article and can't find the player / stat. One guy in history of NHL (I believe it was NHL) One player killed off a 2 min penalty all by himself by skating around with the puck. It may have been in the decades of 1950s or 1960s. Any info is much appreciated.

[@stevenbauer4799]

Worst team in nhl history thanks to nhl who set post expansion teams up to fail. Their expansion draft list was shit-washed up old guys, never will be's, or guys that were on retired list. '70's expansion teams either had to draft well and have patience to build that way like isles did, or get impatient and start making quick fix trades destined to fail and set expansion team back like caps did with '75 top pick. Col. rockies repeated that after leaving kc making foolish trades rockies never recovered from. '70's was just a horrible time to be an nhl expansion team with wha war draining talent as well. No bettman vgk 'gifting' expansion draft for quick success for '70's post expansion teams. Caps were fortunate to survive such horrible hockey in new market. Atl. flames, kc scouts and forerunner rockies weren't as fortunate and didn't survive expansion era. '80-'81 jets were bad as well-penalized by nhl/wha merger that raped wha teams of their talent so nhl teams like rags could grab them. Oil kept gretz and beat merger rules and became '80's dominant.

[@timothyholst9240]

Well, except for Philly. They won a cup in their 7th year.

[@stevenbauer4799]

@@timothyholst9240 Isles-8. oil-6. vgk-7.

[@MonTube2006]

145

[@jamduke7885]

Yikes 😮