Speculation: All Time Fighter Line

[Evilsports]

From your favorite team, ice the five toughest players in your opinion, regardless of when they played. Which team will have the all-time toughest team? Don't worry about LW/RW/C, just three scrappy forwards and two scrappy defense. Bonus points for having a tough goalie. (I'm looking at you Philly fans)

Oilers:

Dave Brown - Semenko - Laraque
McSorley - Beukeboom

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[Your Boy Troy]

Jim McKenzie - Georges Laraque - Eric Godard

Marty McSorley - Deryk Engelland

Honorable mentions: Bob "Battleship" Kelly, Steve MacIntyre (never fought in a Pens uniform, but still), Rick Tocchet, Francois Leroux, Eric Cairns (was past his prime on Pitt).

Pittsburgh is known as a team that had a lot of punching bags as fighters; was rather difficult to make a line-up. Jim McKenzie had a cup of coffee with the team. Still wanted to add him.

 

[Sheppy]

Stan Jonathan - Terry O'Reilly - Jay Miller
Eddie Shore - Zdeno Chara


HM:
Pj Stock
Lyndon Byers
Shawn Thornton
Chris Nilan

Both MacIntyre and McGrattan played in the Bruins system but never fought as Bruins, which sucked.

 

[Harry Waters]

I didn't think that it would be that good, but

Brashear-Simon-Berube
Erskine-Stevens
Kolzig

isn't bad at all. Especially on forward that is a very tough lineup.

 

[Evilsports]

I didn't think that it would be that good, but

Brashear-Simon-Berube
Erskine-Stevens
Kolzig

isn't bad at all. Especially on forward that is a very tough lineup.

I had the same thought, a person doesn't realize how the muscle adds up until you see it as a line up.

 

[RichWVU]

Jim McKenzie - Georges Laraque - Eric Godard

Marty McSorley - Deryk Engelland

Don't forget Brent Johnson!

 

[steezyjeeves]

Chris Neil - Denis Vial - Brian MacGrattan
Zdeno Chara - Matt Carkner

Ray Emery

Obviously guys like Matt Kassian, Rob Ray and a few other could make the argument to replace Neil or Vial, but I only wanted to include players who played a decent tenure with the team.

Pretty solid lineup for a team with such a short history.

 

[Evilsports]

You guys realize that at the end of this, we're absolutely going to have to argue about which team would win a line brawl....right?

 

[Johnny GODreau]

Krzysztof Oliwa-Tim Hunter-Brian McGrattan

Wade Belak- Deryk Engelland

Kipper
Vernon

 

[GMR]

Grimson - Probert - Kocur
Carkner - Rouse

Vernon
Joseph


I'll take my top line against anyone's top line. Two top 5 fighters and arguably another top 10 fighter in Grimson. The defense is comparatively weak. Neither Carkner nor Rouse were in their fighting primes in Detroit, but nobody else popped into my head.

 

[GMR]

Krzysztof Oliwa-Tim Hunter-Brian McGrattan

Wade Belak- Deryk Engelland

Kipper
Vernon

How could your forget Sandy McCarthy? I'd take him over anyone in your lineup.

 

[Sheppy]

How could your forget Sandy McCarthy? I'd take him over anyone in your lineup.

I wouldn't take him over McGrattan, but the others, yes.

 

[GMR]

I wouldn't take him over McGrattan, but the others, yes.

McCarthy was a beast in the early to mid 90's. Arguably the top guy in the league at one time, along with Twist and Simon. Hard to say any heavyweight nowadays is better, since we hardly see any fights from heavyweights. McGrattan is a tank, but not as tested as a prime McCarthy, who had tougher competition and more fights on a weekly basis.

In any case, we agree he should be on Calgary's list of best fighters.

 

[Adam Spylo]

Donald Brashear - John Ferguson - Chris Nilan
Larry Robinson - Lyle Odelein

 

[Sheppy]

McCarthy was a beast in the early to mid 90's. Arguably the top guy in the league at one time, along with Twist and Simon. Hard to say any heavyweight nowadays is better, since we hardly see any fights from heavyweights. McGrattan is a tank, but not as tested as a prime McCarthy, who had tougher competition and more fights on a weekly basis.

In any case, we agree he should be on Calgary's list of best fighters.

I don't disagree with him being one of the top dogs in the mid 90's, I absolutely agree with that. I just don't think you can ignore that McGrattan hasn't lost a fight since 2009, and that was to Boogaard.

People are legit terrified of the man. It sucks he can't find dance partners like he used to, but the pacific division looks to have beefed up this year, so hopefully we see him in the lineup against some of the big guys on those teams.

 

[Boreal01]

Bob Nystrom - Mick Vukota - Clark Gillies
Eric Cairns - Rich Pilon
Billy Smith

 

[ceg195]

Tie Domi-Tiger Willams-Wendal Clark
Wade Belak-Red Horner
Felix Potvin

Coach-Pat Quinn

 

[GMR]

I misunderstood the OP's question. I guess the fighters do have to be somewhat positional (can't have forwards playing defense). Will revise my list.

 

[CHGoalie27]

From your favorite team, ice the five toughest players in your opinion, regardless of when they played. Which team will have the all-time toughest team? Don't worry about LW/RW/C, just three scrappy forwards and two scrappy defense. Bonus points for having a tough goalie. (I'm looking at you Philly fans)

Oilers:

Dave Brown - Semenko - Laraque
McSorley - Beukeboom

You really wouldn't stick MacIntyre in there? He'd probably SMACk any of those guy as well as anyone else like ever lol

 

[CHGoalie27]

How could your forget Sandy McCarthy? I'd take him over anyone in your lineup.

No s***, and he'd score some goals too if it matters!

 

[CHGoalie27]

Belak MacIntyre Worrell
Laus Jovonovski

Belfour (water bottle filled with booze)

 

[GMR]

You really wouldn't stick MacIntyre in there? He'd probably SMACk any of those guy as well as anyone else like ever lol

I like McIntyre, but all those forwards are ranked higher than him all time. McIntyre didn't have enough fights at the top level against the top fighters to be ahead of any of those forwards listed.

 

[Evilsports]

You really wouldn't stick MacIntyre in there? He'd probably SMACk any of those guy as well as anyone else like ever lol

Believe me I thought about it! I like Big Mac a lot, strong SK boy. If Steve played D, he'd have popped Beukeboom out of his slot in a heartbeat.

 

[CHGoalie27]

Steve MacIntyre is 6'5 250, he'd have handed everyone their ass, he had 35 lbs of muscle over Brown.

If we're drafting all time fighters, I draft him with my first overall pick.

If he's an option for an all time fighter line, he'd better be on it.

He more or less ended Belak and Boogaard. And Ivanans.

 

[Evilsports]

Steve MacIntyre is 6'5 250, he'd have handed everyone their ass, he had 35 lbs of muscle over Brown.

If we're drafting all time fighters, I draft him with my first overall pick.

If he's an option for an all time fighter line, he'd better be on it.

He more or less ended Belak and Boogaard. And Ivanans.

Put him on your list then.