Let's settle this...

Patrice Brisbois is insulted you don’t have a spot for him in this poll.

I think Tucker makes May look like Sakic.

There’s no question Tucker is the King of Doucheland, but Selanne is a Hall of Fame forward who put up Arnason numbers here. He couldn’t even play well enough to get off the 3rd line. F Teemu Selanne.

Oh Tucker, I knew that he was washed up and not just injured. What is this crazy tirade against Minnesota that he went on?

Matt Barnaby? That guy was kind of a spaz.

Definitely Breeze-by. Might as well have signed a traffic cone for all the skating and puckhandling he did. Can’t believe he still has a job in the NHL. Same goes for Ossi Vaananen and Karlis ‘Scratch-king’ Skrastins (too easy?).

I don’t care how well he did. When you’re involved in an incident like that, and then that team brings you in, it’s management blatantly stabbing you in the back and giving you the finger while you lie there bleeding. For a team that’s been so concerned about image control and whatnot, that was an undefensible decision.

Honorable mentions are the obvious: Tucker, Chris Gratton, Breeze-by, and maybe even Tyler Arnason. .

Tucker may be the worst because never has the franchise so desperately needed a single singing to be worth a damn and he isn’t.

If that one signing had been something crazy, like for Bruno, the Avs would be a whole lot better off.

Is a nonfactor than an explicitly bad signing. He’s neutral rather than an actual detriment to the team IMO. Yes, he actually fucked our only ability to come back two nights ago, but he was also clutch in comebacks twice this year. Labeling him the worst is pure hyperbole.

For the worst, you have to consider guys like Peter Worrel, Jim Cummins, Matthew Barnaby, and the aforementioned Brian Marchement. Not only did they actually have less skill and work ethic and Tucker, their douche-factors make Darcy look like a carebear.

Bates Battaglia and Chris Gratton can’t believe you forgot about them.

And after thinking about it for a little while; We gave up Chris Drury and Stephane Yelle to get Derrek Morris and Jeff Shantz. I think that moves the Morris and Shantz duo to the very top of this list, because not only were they both pretty useless here, but we gave up so much in order to get them.

makes me puke in my mouth a little. I’m thinking we need a “best signing of all time” to make up for it.

For the record I go with May. That bitch.

Not the worst, maybe, but the gap between what I thought he would be and what he turned out to be was perhaps the biggest of any players we’ve signed since I’ve been properly following hockey. I had no real expectation that Tucker, or most of the other guys in the comments, would be anything special (or they were before my time) – but I really thought Selanne would turn it on.

And I was so disappointed.

Lacroix, signing the gm’s son? That didn’t work out too well, sabotaged the locker room and got Jones run out of town.

I can’t think that Selanne was the worst because when you think of the worst it’s someone who comes in and epicly sucks and doesn’t try. Paul Kariya comes to mind except that both he and selanne signed for under market value.

May was a big FU to the fans so he was probably the 2nd worst.

what do you think the Smyth signing will look like in hindsight?