Which group of Slovakian players would you take?

[Ducks in a row]

Group 1
Forwards
Anton Stastny
Peter Stastny
Zigmund Palffy

Defenseman
Lubomir Visnovsky
Andrej Sekera

Goalie
Jaroslav Halak

Group 2
Forwards
Marian Gaborik
Pavol Demitra
Marian Hossa

Defenseman
Andrej Meszaros
Zdeno Chara

Goalie
Peter Budaj

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[norrisnick]

1 pretty handily for me.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

P. Stastny, Palffy and Halak tip the scales in favour of 1.

If I had to rank the forwards:

P. Stastny
Hossa
Palffy
Demitra
Gaborik
A. Stastny

 

[Bileur]

The advantage of having Chara is too big for group 1 to overcome.

Group 2.

 

[Bouboumaster]

Stastny is a beast but group 2 has Hossa AND Chara

 

[Gurglesons]

People are forgetting how good that Gaborik - Demitra - Hossa line was.

 

[Elvs]

I don't know how good the Stastny's were as I wasn't around to watch them play. I know of course Peter is a legend, but was Anton any better than Miroslav Satan or Peter Bondra?

Defenitely Robert Svehla should have been in this poll. The defense would've at least been closer with Visnovsky/Svehla vs Chara/Sekera.

That's of course assuming the idea was to make this poll between Slovakias best players ever, but maybe that wasn't the idea.

Anyway, voted Group 2, even though the combination of Meszaros and Budaj would make things shaky on the back end.

 

[SenzZen]

Group 2 is all Sens save for Ned Flanders

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

The advantage of having Chara is too big for group 1 to overcome.

Group 2.

Same

Group 1 forwards are better and I prefer Halak, but the advantage of Chara over the other 3 D listed is too much to ignore

 

[Xspyrit]

I wonder if Palffy is the most underrated forward ever

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ok this article is a bit outdated (McDavid would be high) but in 2014, he was 17th in NHL history for Era-Adjusted Points Per Game


There's Newsy Lalonde and Howie Morenz in front of him that probably shouldn't count too

Mario Lemieux (1984-06) 1.66
Wayne Gretzky (1979-99) 1.61
Sidney Crosby (2005-14) 1.50
Peter Forsberg (1994-11) 1.34
Bobby Orr (1966-79) 1.33
Evgeni Malkin (2006-14) 1.33
Alex Ovechkin (2005-14) 1.29
Jaromir Jagr (1990-14) 1.24
Mike Bossy (1977-87) 1.19
Joe Sakic (1988-09) 1.19
Phil Esposito (1963-81) 1.18
Eric Lindros (1992-07) 1.17
Newsy Lalonde (1917-27) 1.15
Jean Beliveau (1950-71) 1.15
Steven Stamkos (2008-14) 1.14
Howie Morenz (1923-37) 1.13
Ziggy Palffy (1993-06) 1.13
Pavel Bure (1991-03) 1.13

 

[GRob83]

Swap Bondra in for Gaborik and I'll take Group 2.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Went with ex Senators in group 2, except for goalie.

 

[Ivo]

A. Stastny < Gaborik
P. Stastny > Demitra
Palffy =< Hossa

Visnovsky < Chara
Sekera > Meszaros

Halak > Budaj

Looks very close to me. However, head-to-head I would take 2, simply because having Chara and Hossa and their defensive prowess neutralises the main advantage of team one, which is goaltending.