2014 MLD Assasination Thread

MadArcand

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Tre Kronor

Steve Thomas - Sven Tumba - Art Gagne
Valeri Kamensky - Bill Hay - Marian Stastny
Don Maloney - Mikko Koivu - Mike Knuble
Jim Peplinski - Bill Clement - Wally Hergesheimer
Martin Straka, Billy McGimsie

Mattias Norström - Darryl Sydor
Marty McSorely - Alexei Zhitnik
Jeff Beukeboom - Mike Milbury
Uwe Krupp, Ivan Tregubov

Kirk McLean
Kelly Hrudey

Coached by Bobby Kromm

PP1

Steve Thomas - Sven Tumba - Art Gagne
Wally Hergesheimer - Alexei Zhitnik

PP2

Valeri Kamensky - Bill Hay - Marian Stastny
Darryl Sydor - Mike Knuble

PK1

Don Maloney - Mikko Koivu
Mattias Norström - Jeff Beukeboom

PK2

Jim Peplinski - Bill Clement
Darryl Sydor - Marty McSorley
The top-6 is very, very good offensively. In fact, I think every one of your top-6 forwards is above-average for their role. A wee bit underwhelming on the defensive and physical side, but that's no biggie. I'm also remembering Thomas mostly on RW, but he did play both wings so that's irrelevant.

Lot of grit in the bottom-6. Koivu is very solid 3rd line center by now, can do everything well. Clement provides the PK specialist that your team sorely needs.

I like your defense as a whole (are you listing RDs first? Beukeboom and McSorley are both RHS). Lot of physicality, and relatively reasonable amount of offense, though replacing Milbury with someone more offensively gifted wouldn't hurt.

Goaltending strikes me as the weak spot of the team, McLean isn't much of a starter and LL's old fave Hrudey is a fairly mediocre backup too.

Not a fan of Knuble on point on PP at all. Did he ever play there? His skillset doesn't seem to fit the role at all.
 

TheDevilMadeMe

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Mostly agree with Mad's review, except one thing - Steve Thomas. Maybe I'm just a biased Devils fan who remembers what a disappointment he was on the team - but I don't see him as above average at all
 

MadArcand

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seventieslord said:
MadArcand, mailing one in!
I just want to see you spew fire and brimstone on Williams! :laugh:

Mostly agree with Mad's review, except one thing - Steve Thomas. Maybe I'm just a biased Devils fan who remembers what a disappointment he was on the team - but I don't see him as above average at all
As the glue guy / 3rd wheel on 1st line, he probably is. As 1st line LW, I guess maybe not.
 

TheDevilMadeMe

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I just want to see you spew fire and brimstone on Williams! :laugh:


As the glue guy / 3rd wheel on 1st line, he probably is. As 1st line LW, I guess maybe not.

I don't necessarily buy Thomas as a glue guy, but again, I'm definitely biased by what a pathetic replacement for Claude Lemieux he turned out to be.
 

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