Three Rivers HC
1 (10) - Denis Potvin
2 (21) - Alex Ovechkin
4 (56) - Jacques Plante
4 (63) - Newsy Lalonde
5 (88) - Serge Savard
6 (99) - Elmer Lach
7 (118) - Vladimir Martinec (traded to Professor What)
8 (135) - JC Tremblay
9 (161) - Mark Recchi
10 (171) - Butch Bouchard
11 (190) - Bill Cowley (traded to Professor What)
12 (207) - Al Arbour
13 (218) - Bob Pulford
14 (243) - Dean Prentice
15 (262) - Ed Westfall
17 (290) - Joe Mullen
18 (322) - Jim Schoenfeld
19 (326) - Art Duncan
19 (334) - Roy Worters
20 (351) - Denis Savard (dropped for Phil Goyette)
21 (370) - Bobby Bauer
22 (387) - Don Marcotte
23 (406) - Walt Tkaczuk
24 (423) - Gary Suter (dropped for Glen Harmon)
HEAD COACH:
Captain - Denis Potvin
AC - Newsy Lalonde
AC - Butch Bouchard
AC - Alex Ovechkin
FORWARDS:
DEAN PRENTICE - NEWSY LALONDE (A) - MARK RECCHI
ALEX OVECHKIN (A) - ELMER LACH - THEO FLEURY
BOB PULFORD - DOUG GILMOUR - JOE MULLEN
DON MARCOTTE - WALT TKACZUK - ED WESTFALL
Name | VsX7 | ESVsX7 |
Ovechkin | 98.4 | 67 |
Lalonde | 95* | 65* |
Recchi | 88.4 | 61 |
Lach | 86.1 | 60* |
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Gilmour | 82.0 | 57 |
Fleury | 82.0 | 57 |
Bauer | 74.6 | NA |
Mullen | 71.6 | 54 |
Tkaczuk | 67.8 | 48 |
Prentice | 67.0 | 51 |
Pulford | TBD | 49 |
*Lach's scores calculated using ES benchmarks calculated by Black Gold Extractor from 1943-1952 (best 7 years fall in this range)
*The 2nd line will play as much or slightly more than the 1st line at ES.
*Goyette is capable of filling in up and down the lineup given his versatile career as a strong checker (Montreal) and solid offensive C (New York) and will fill if an injury occurs to one of the starting C's.
*Bauer is an injury replacement for a Recchi/Fleury or offensive upgrade on Westfall when we need a jolt of offense. Bauer would roll on the 3rd line as the engine w/Gilmour and Pulford and Mullen dropping to the 4th line as the depth goal getter w/Tkaczuk and Marcotte. If Bauer plays and Westfall sits, Marcotte and Pulford would assume top PK spots w/Gilmour and Prentice taking on 2nd team roles.
DEFENSEMEN:
DENIS POTVIN (C) - SERGE SAVARD
JC TREMBLAY - BUTCH BOUCHARD (A)
JIM SCHOENFELD - ART DUNCAN
*Glen Harmon is an injury replacement for Tremblay and logical partner for Butch Bouchard as they played together for years in Montreal in the 1940's.
GOALIES:
JACQUES PLANTE
ROY WORTERS
SPARES:
BOBBY BAUER
PHIL GOYETTE
GLEN HARMON
SPECIAL TEAMS:
Primary Power Play:
Lalonde RHS (net to slot)
Ovechkin RHS (left circle to point) - Fleury RHS(slot to net) -- Lach LHS(right half wall)
Potvin LHS(point)
Lach is the primary C and first man on the dot though given his strength in that area. Lalonde, the other C will back him up if bounced. Ovechkin will roam between left circle and the blueline, drifting higher when Potvin moves to his right towards Lach.
Secondary Power Play:
Forwards - Doug Gilmour (C) LHS - Mark Recchi LHS - Joe Mullen RHS
Defensemen - Denis Potvin LHS - Art Duncan RHS
*Tremblay will sub in for Potvin when Three Rivers hold a lead or come on late for DP in other situations. Given Potvin will be doing very little to no PK'ing, Arbour will be able to use him for nearly the entirety of the PP chances given and more importantly, an increased role at ES.
Primary Penalty Kill:
Pulford (C) -- Westfall
Tremblay -- Savard
Secondary Penalty Kill:
Marcotte -- Tkaczuk (C)
Schoenfeld -- Bouchard
Spare PK players include Prentice, Gilmour, Fleury, Potvin
Usage and effectiveness:
1st team:
Bob Pulford | LW/C | 874 | 49% | 0.94 |
2nd team:
*Tkaczuck's #'s 71-72 through 78-79 per overpass
**Bouchard not available due to era
Don Marcotte | LW/C | 868 | 49% | 0.80 |
Jim Schoenfeld | D | 719 | 56% | 0.77 |
-Westfall's usage and kill rate are both elite, putting him squarely in the conversation as the best PK F ever. Especially when you factor in his 66 points shorthanded (26+40).
-Pulford led the league in SH goals 3 times and had 30 overall + 10 assists, giving the F duo 106 combined points (56+50). Was widely regarded one of the best on the kill in the 06 era.
-Between 1956-57 and 1971-72 (Pulford's career) those 2 ranked 1st and 2nd in SH points, and that cuts out final SEVEN years of Westfall's career.
-Tremblay ranks 4th all time in PK usage since 1960, and 2nd of those with at least 500 games played and only Bobby Orr (0.79), Serge Savard (0.82), and Doug Harvey (0.86) have an effective rate superior. Both these metrics place him firmly in the elite range as a Dman on the kill and contemporary praise paints him in an extremely good light there.
-Savard ranks 12th all time in PK usage since 1960, and 8th of those with at least 500 games played. And his 0.82 kill rate is only bested by Bobby Orr of those players in the top 12. And there is an added bonus in the fact these 2 spent years together in the late 60's and early 70's playing on the same PK units so chemistry is a bonus.