Juuuust didn't quite make it

[Frank E]

Busta's #marliescrushmonday post, and certainly herman's unhealthy, and weird, obsession with Griffith got me thinking about your favourite Marlies/prospects that just couldn't cut it in the NHL no matter how much you wanted it for them.  Some of mine:

Williams
Newbury
Peelash

[Bullfrog]

Karel Pilar
Peter Holland
Jerry D'Amigo
Stuart Percy

[CarltonTheBear]

Yegor Korshkov.

[Rebel_1812]

Tyler Biggs

[disco]

Lonny Bohonos

[louisstamos]

My first ever favorite player when I was a kid and used to see the Newmarket Saints (the Leafs farm team before St. John's) was Peter Ing.

He never really got a fair shake, though.

[herman]

Mikael Tellqvist
Justin Pogge
Jerry D'Amigo
Brandon Kozun

[Nik the Trik]

This may not quite be playing by the rules of the game because he did end up having something of an NHL career but Jay Harrison was always that guy for me.

Also Christian Hanson. I really thought he'd establish himself as at least a 4th line C.

[Bullfrog]

I had Jay Harrison on my list, but figured because he's had a somewhat decent career he didn't count. But "guys that turned out OK but were discarded by the Leafs" could be another list.

[bustaheims]

Carter Ashton. Thought he'd be able to become a full-time NHLer somewhere. Still don't think Carlyle used him properly, and that messed him up.

Also really thought Matt Finn would have cracked an NHL lineup by now.

[Nik the Trik]

To redeem myself from my Harrison pick a teammate of his, Staffan Kronwall, was a guy I really thought would be able to play in the bigs.

And then from the "sort of had a NHL career post-Leafs" file is Nathan Dempsey.

[CarltonTheBear]

My serious pick would be Dmitry Vorobiev. I really thought that he was going to be a solid top-4 defenceman for us if we could only get him to come over from Russia. Then it seemed like he never really took his career seriously as there were reports of him getting massively overweight. He's still playing in the KHL right now but his numbers suggest that he's nothing special.

[cabber24]

I had Jay Harrison on my list, but figured because he's had a somewhat decent career he didn't count. But "guys that turned out OK but were discarded by the Leafs" could be another list.

Harrison can thank Paul Maurice for rescuing him from the AHL. Paul coached the Marlies and when he was head coach of CAR he acquired Harrison. I liked Harrison too.

[cabber24]

Lonny Bohonos

Remember watching him in the Spangler cup years after his Leaf days. I shouldn't say watching... noticing via highlights that Bohonos was in the Spangler cup.

[cabber24]

Carter Ashton. Thought he'd be able to become a full-time NHLer somewhere. Still don't think Carlyle used him properly, and that messed him up.

Also really thought Matt Finn would have cracked an NHL lineup by now.

Wasn't a big Ashton fan he would try to fight and always ended up bleeding profusely. A very punch-able nose apparently.

Matt Finn doesn't even ring a bell.