Brogan Rafferty played 3 games combined with the Canucks in the 18/19 season and 19/20 seasons. Recording just 1 assist. Since then, Rafferty has bounced around in the AHL with various teams not getting another call to the NHL
by TheLastOlympian07
@Vancouver Canucks
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Those were the days. When our prospect pool was so shallow this guy was one of our most promising assets.
I’ll always remember how he shared a name with a then recently convicted murderer
Edit: from 2012 so maybe not as recent as I remember
I was pretty stoked when he first joined. I remember him having issue with 1 eye. Considering that, I appreciate what he achieved.
Cereal killer
I remember saying, enjoy your first game because it’s probably your last. Holy fuck did it offend the old canucks board lol.
I always felt so bad for him in that 2020-21 debut against the Habs… literally the nightmare of all nightmares to start your season. Like three or four giveaways from behind the goal line, failed breakouts, and eventually a goal against in like an extended 3-minute shift. Travis Green basically made up his mind on him right then and there and he spent the entire year on the taxi squad. Just a complete waste of his time that season was. Ironic, since he finished the game picking up a point lol.
Damn, so many of the Benning-era pickups just got so screwed by their nonexistent development program before getting thrown to the wolves on some of the worst iterations of the Vancouver Canucks and being told “sink or swim”
Overhyped cause we had nothing in our prospect pool, turns out he was a JAG, just another guy.
I’ll do you one better: Do you remember Joesph Cramarossa ?
I do. He is bouncing around the ahl producing great numbers. Can’t figure out why the nhl never wanted him, also can’t figure why he hasn’t gone to Russia or Europe to get paid?
I remember fans thinking that we had the next Matt Cooke on our hands for a bit. He had a very short run, but showed some promise. It’s sad that never worked out.
Yes, but only because I wanted his goal song to be Baker Street.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM)
Rafferty was overhyped due to barren cupboards but I am also a believer that he was screwed by the Benning no development system. Think Rafferty could have at minimum become an NHL 7th dman journeyman like a Biega if we had any semblance of a development system in place for guys turning pro in the AHL.
Those were some mediocre times