DaveG
Noted Jerk
yep, my list is in.
Sweeney was most definitely on my list so he's going to be one of our 3 dmen.
Sweeney was most definitely on my list so he's going to be one of our 3 dmen.
awesome!I think the All-Star Event with be a 7 game series. Everyone will play with the All-Stars being the only guys to be immune from being scratched (except for the goalies, they will start all but 2 games. Probably Holmqvist/Hebert gm 1, Roloson/Salo gm 2 Wakely/Wregget gm 3 then Holmqvist/Hebert gm 4 onwards).
Oh cut the hyperbole. I have 1st team all-star third liners Marks and Breen.
And I think unselected Migay and M. Hunter are better than all your bottom-six except Schock.
And why did you pick Boutette over Fonteyne?
seventieslord, you didn't pick 2nd all-star team Wayne Babych. Please honour the process and drop a forward from your selection list.
He was known for his CHECKING!... let's leave Breen out of this. Nothing about him at all suggests he should be considered a bottom-six player. (such as physical play, defense, leadership, grit, etc) He was a scoring star and that's all that is known.
Hence why I thought Fonteyne a quality fourth line left winger. You went instead with the more versatile player, a good extra forward.Fonteyne's a better penalty killer.... that is all. I don't see what else he does better. If I'm building a team for myself, to go to war against your team, I want both guys to fill both roles capably. If I'm picking guys to travel to Moscow or wherever for the summit series, I want the guy who's the best at what he does, or most versatile, who has the best chance of fitting into that team.
I'm willing to wait if the 4th and 5th place teams wish to play a series to see who clinches the last playoff space and right to play the top seed.Results:
1. John Hopkins Blue Jays
2. Madison Ice Muskies
3. Saskatoon Shieks
4. New England Whalers
5. Middlebury Panthers
I'd recommend a 4 team playoff
vote on Sunday? Too early. Discussion would be great! Recommend Wednesday or Thursday vote (gives time for New England vs. Middlebury series this weekend if they are up to it) and have the final series begin as late as the day after Christmas if needed. There is no big hurry as long as it's all done BEFORE the end of the year, which is two weeks away.voting would work if we could vote on Sunday, then again on Wednesday, getting the finals over by Christmas) but the direction is open.
Val Fonteyne, LW
- Stanley Cup Finalist (1961, 1963, 1966)
- Killed 41% of Pittsburgh's penalties from 1967-1972
- 229 points in 820 NHL games
- 13 points in 59 playoff games
- just 38 PIM in 1033 NHL/WHA games
- 3rd-most playoff games among available players as of his 1972 retirement
- In 1964 and 1966, as Detroit's primary PK forward, led them to league's 2nd best PK
Heroes: Stars Of Hockey's Golden Era said:used primarily in a defensive role and for penalty killing...
loh.net said:Left-winger Val Fonteyne was a solid two-way player whose unselfish approach to the game earned him the respect of his teammates. He was also one of the cleanest players in the league, drawing only 13 minor penalties in a career that lasted 820 games between 1959 and 1972.
...Fonteyne looked solid while playing 69 games as a rookie in 1959-60. In all, he played four years in Motown and helped the team reach the Stanley Cup finals in 1961. The New York Rangers in the 1963 Intra-League Draft claimed the hard-working winger. He formed an effective forward unit with Don Marshall and Vic Hadfield in 1963-64 then found himself back in Detroit part way through the next season.
Rudy Migay, the offensive star of two Memorial Cups in 1947 and 1948 and an AHL co-MVP all-star in 1959, but inbetween he found himself playing 418 NHL games on a defensive-oriented line with Ron Murphy on his wing. Known most for his penalty killing at the NHL level, he did score 20+ points per season for five consecutive seasons between 1953-54 and 1957-58, including back-to-back seasons 4th in Leafs scoring.
http://awinninghabit.com/2010/11/22/toronto-maple-leafs-hockeys-rudy/Rudy Migay was a defensive player with the Toronto Maple Leafs and known as an elite penalty killer. He was nicknamed “Toy Terrier” because of puny size – 5′6″ , 150 lbs and that he played the game with a ubiquitous and tenacious style of play.
http://mapleleafslegends.blogspot.com/2009/06/rudy-migay.htmlRudy Migay was a spectacular player at the minor league level, but primarily a defensive player with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was best known as a penalty killer along with usual partner Ron Stewart.
The Fort William, Ontario native made quite a name for himself at the junior and AHL levels as a playmaking center. He was adoringly nicknamed "Toy Terrier" because of puny size (he stood just 5'6" and 150 pounds) combined with his tenacious style of play.
However the Leafs were a powerful team in the late 1940s, especially at center ice. Names like Max Bentley and Teeder Kennedy made it next to impossible to get much ice time. Migay was resigned to play with the Pittsburgh Hornets for 4 years before finally cracking the Leafs lineup.
Needless to say, Migay was definitely excited to join the Leafs, although he had to reinvent his game. It took him nearly three years to score as many points as he did in his last year of junior. Migay was content to play in a checking role for nearly 6 complete seasons with the Maple Leafs.
By the end of the 1957-58 season Migay's days in Toronto were coming to a close. He had finished the year in the minor leagues, and aside from the 20 more big league games, he wound up his career in the minor leagues both as player and as a playing coach.
It was a bitter ending for Migay, who felt he could have played at the NHL level over those final years of his career.
"I thought I might have a chance at coming back. I was hoping for a trade," said Migay, who along with Stan Mikita and Elmer Vasko was one of the few players of Slovak descent in the NHL's younger years.
The trade never materialized, of course. It was a different time back in the 1950s and 1960s. Teams could easily bury a player in the minor leagues and hope that the exiled players would tear up the minor leagues and possibly command more from in a trade. Migay held up his part of the deal - he went down without complaint and worked his butt off - scoring 82 points in just 51 games and shared the AHL's Most Valuable Player award (along with Bill Hicke)
Tom Fitzgerald, F
- universal defensive forward, prolific penalty killer and good leader
- over 1000 regular season games plus 78 in playoffs
- played important role in two underdog playoff runs
LOH said:Fitzgerald scored 27 points and was a key defensive player when the Islanders upset the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins to reach the semi-finals in 1993. A few weeks later he was claimed by the Florida Panthers in the Expansion Draft and assumed greater responsibility with his new team. The hard working forward scored a career high 18 goals in the club's inaugural season in 1993-94. Two years later he scored eight points in 22 playoff games as the Panthers shocked the hockey world by reaching the Stanley Cup finals.
Late in the 1997-98 season, the Colorado Avalanche picked Fitzgerald up at the trading deadline. He was a solid player for them but was not resigned after Colorado failed to win the Stanley Cup. The expansion Nashville Predators signed him as a free agent and he became a team leader on the club as it held its own in the league.
A solid defensive player and penalty killer with the young Preds', Fitzgerald went on to play four seasons in Nashville before he was dealt to the Chicago Blackhawks in the latter half of the 2001-02 season.
He was known for his CHECKING!
McKechnie bio said:uses his size (6'2", 195) effectively, a hard but clean hitter, fast skater, good playmaker, and can dig the puck from the corners.
Babych bio said:hard nosed player... big, strong... combative nature... two-way worker... was one of the game's best forecheckers... good at working the boards and will hit or be hit to make a play... good upper body strength, can hold his own in the corners...
Frood bio said:tough guy Oren Frood seemed to bite off a bit more than he could chew when he got the worst of a fight with big George McNamara... Frood was one of the bigger men in the game and was noted as much for his rough play as for his great shot and outstanding scoring ability...
Fergus bio said:reliable defensively... doesn't take a lot of penalties but still plays an aggressive, hard-driving game... can't be pushed around... good at digging the puck out of the corners... acquiring him was one of the Leafs' best moves of the past 10 years... intense checker... served as acting Captain when Vaive was stripped... hard worker, intense checker, team's top faceoff man, assistant captain, enjoys killing penalties."
- Ron Schock had three whacks at the puck in front of Holmqvist, but was unable to bury the puck
The Madison Swedish line of Lundvall-Nilsson-Pettersson sure are clicking!