Which team wins a 7 game series? Deluxe Edition

[Elvis P]

Who wins and why? Be specific. You can pick your starter between the 2 goalies provided for each team.

Team A - Coach Scotty Bowman

Bobby Hull-Wayne Gretzky-Gordie Howe
Ted Lindsay-Jean Beliveau-Guy Lafleur
Frank Nighbor-Bryan Trottier-Mike Bossy
Dickie Moore-Howie Morenz-Dit Clapper

Bobby Orr-Eddie Shore
Denis Potvin-Leonard ''Red'' Kelly
Slava Fetisov-Chris Chelios

Dominik Hasek-Patrick Roy

Team B - Coach Toe Blake

Mark Messier-Mario Lemieux-Maurice Richard
Valeri Kharlamov-Stan Mikita-Jaromir Jagr
Frank Mahovlich-Bobby Clarke-Bill Cook
Anatoli Firsov-Phil Esposito-Charlie Conacher

Doug Harvey-Raymond Bourque
Nicklas Lidström-Larry Robinson
Cyclone Taylor-Paul Coffey

Terry Sawchuk-Jacques Plante

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[pdd]

Who wins and why? Be specific. You can pick your starter between the 2 goalies provided for each team.

Team A - Coach Scotty Bowman

Bobby Hull-Wayne Gretzky-Gordie Howe
Ted Lindsay-Jean Beliveau-Guy Lafleur
Frank Nighbor-Bryan Trottier-Mike Bossy
Dickie Moore-Howie Morenz-Dit Clapper

Bobby Orr-Eddie Shore
Denis Potvin-Leonard ''Red'' Kelly
Slava Fetisov-Chris Chelios

Dominik Hasek-Patrick Roy

Team B - Coach Toe Blake

Mark Messier-Mario Lemieux-Maurice Richard
Valeri Kharlamov-Stan Mikita-Jaromir Jagr
Frank Mahovlich-Bobby Clarke-Bill Cook
Anatoli Firsov-Phil Esposito-Charlie Conacher

Doug Harvey-Raymond Bourque
Nicklas Lidström-Larry Robinson
Cyclone Taylor-Paul Coffey

Terry Sawchuk-Jacques Plante

Team A has the three best players ever. They have the two best forwards ever, the best goalie ever and the third best goalie ever, better center depth, much better wingers, better versatility and two-way play, equal or better coaching, and at least an equal defense.

 

[yave1964]

Team A, not even close. As long as Roy doesn't do a statue of liberty or anything like that.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Team A easy.

For a second I thought this was a 2-man ATD, but there's no way Gretzky/Orr/Howe all end up on the same team in a draft format.

 

[Elvis P]

Who wins and why? Be specific. You can pick your starter between the 2 goalies provided for each team.

Team A - Coach Scotty Bowman

Bobby Hull-XXX-XXX
Ted Lindsay-Jean Beliveau-Guy Lafleur
Frank Nighbor-Bryan Trottier-Mike Bossy
Dickie Moore-Howie Morenz-Dit Clapper

XXX-Eddie Shore
Denis Potvin-Leonard ''Red'' Kelly
Slava Fetisov-Chris Chelios

Dominik Hasek-Patrick Roy

Team B - Coach Toe Blake

Mark Messier-XXX-XXX
Valeri Kharlamov-Stan Mikita-Jaromir Jagr
Frank Mahovlich-Bobby Clarke-Bill Cook
Anatoli Firsov-Phil Esposito-Charlie Conacher

XXX-Raymond Bourque
Nicklas Lidström-Larry Robinson
Cyclone Taylor-Paul Coffey

Terry Sawchuk-Jacques Plante

I screwed up by putting the Big 3 on the same team, but I think if you remove them and their corresponding #1s on the other team that these teams are evenly matched.

 

[tony d]

Team A easily.

 

[pdd]

I screwed up by putting the Big 3 on the same team, but I think if you remove them and their corresponding #1s on the other team that these teams are evenly matched.

Now it's much more evenly matched; each team still has three top-12 all-time players (Beliveau/Hull/Hasek vs. Jagr/Lidstrom/Bourque) but Team A is definitely better outside of that group, and the "top-three' is better for Team A as well.

I am interested to know why you didn't include Doug Harvey and Steve Yzerman, among others.

 

[Elvis P]

Now it's much more evenly matched; each team still has three top-12 all-time players (Beliveau/Hull/Hasek vs. Jagr/Lidstrom/Bourque) but Team A is definitely better outside of that group, and the "top-three' is better for Team A as well.

I am interested to know why you didn't include Doug Harvey and Steve Yzerman, among others.

I did include Harvey in both mine and your first post, but had to remove him, because he is Orr's corresponding #1. I love Yzerman, but don't consider him a top 8 center all time.