NHL Debut Yrs. Tourney Playoffs Round 1 Match 3: 1995 vs. 2006-2007

[tony d]

After a successful round robin tourney it's time for the playoffs to see who hfboards thinks is the best roster of debuting player for a season since 1989-1990

As always for retired players vote based upon their career totals and for current players vote based upon their career projections.

All rosters are final.

I didn't notice this before but vote based upon NHL careers only.

Polls are open 24 hrs.

Also study rosters carefully, seedings could be based upon more on group matches and voter participation than strength of roster.

1995: 1st in Group F

994-95 NHL Debuts | Hockey-Reference.com

Paul Kariya-Peter Forsberg-Valeri Bure
Ryan Smyth-Viktor Kozlov-Eric Daze
Sergei Brylin-Brian Rolston-Adam Deadmarsh
Cory Stillman-Craig Conroy-Scott Walker

Sergei Gonchar-Robert Svehla
Oleg Tverdovsky-Adrian Aucoin
Kenny Jonsson-Craig Rivet

Nikolai Khabibulin
Tommy Salo

2006-2007: 2nd in Group C

2006-07 NHL Summary | Hockey-Reference.com

Loui Eriksson-Evgeni Malkin-Phil Kessel
Clarke Macarthur-David Krejci-Ryan Callahan
Brandon Dubinsky-Anze Kopitar-Troy Brouwer
PA Parentau-Joe Pavelski-Alexander Radulov

Kris Letang-Marc Edouard Vlasic
Alex Edler-Keith Yandle
Dan Giradi-Marc Staal

Jaroslav Halak
Mike Smith

The winner here takes on tomorrow's winner of the 2010-2011 vs. 2002-2003 match in Rd.2

1995 got my vote.

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[SotasicA]

2006-07 with the much better defense.

And how can a team even lose with Rockstar Kopitar as their 3rd line center?