Your all time team filled with your favorite players

[VanIslander]

All-time? Hmmm... Well, of those I've seen a lot:

coach Pat Quinn

Alex Ovechkin - Wayne Gretzky - Sergei Makarov
Bob Gainey - Petr Forsberg - Daniel Alfredsson
Esa Tikkanen - Guy Carbonneau - Trevor Linden
Patrik Elias - Michael Peca - Marian Hossa
Tiger Williams, Dale Hunter

Ray Bourque - Larry Robinson
Rod Langway - Chris Pronger
Dmitri Yushkevich - Rick Ley
Jyrki Lumme

Dominik Hasek
Ken Dryden

 

[VanIslander]

Of those I have mostly read about:

coach Fred Shero

Syd Howe - Jean Beliveau - Bill Cook
Aurel Joliat - Gil Perreault - Didier Pitre
Herbie Lewis - Frank McGee - Boris Mikhailov
George Hay - Marty Walsh - George Armstrong
Rabbit McVeigh, Konstantin Loktev

Eddie Shore - Jim Neilson
Harvey Pulford - Dickie Boon
Joe Hall - Doug Young
Gennady Tsygankov

Jacques Plante
Johnny Bower

 

[unknown33]

Forsberg Lemieux Jagr
Makarov Beliveau Lafleur
Zetterberg Trottier Cournoyer
Schultz Stefan Volchkov
Vanek

Orr Bourque
Stevens Potvin
Cleghorn MacInnis
Cherry

Lehtonen
Hasek
McCool

 

[BenchBrawl]

I really don't gives a **** about the LW position I put anybody in there anyway that's pretty much how it works in real life lol

Bossy-Lemieux-Jagr
Richard-Béliveau-Lafleur
Roenick-Perreault-Kovalev
Malkin-Lindros-Nilan

Orr-Potvin
Robinson-Savard
Bourque-Lapointe

Roy
Plante

Coach-Pat Burns
GM-Sam Pollock

 

[GB]

Peter Forsberg-Peter Stastny-Maurice Richard
Mats Naslund-Igor Larionov-Gordie Howe
Bob Gainey-Saku Koivu-Jere Lehtinen
Steve Thomas-Denis Savard-Mike Blaisdell

Niklas Lidstrom-Larry Robinson
Vladimir Konstantinov-Brian Leetch
Eric Desjardins-Stephen Cooper

Patrick Roy
Jimmy Foster
Stephen Foster

I was surprised how hard to fill out the lw position it was.

 

[DearDiary]

Selanne-Crosby-Forsberg
Bure-Yzerman-hull
Ovechkin-Sakic-Naslund
Karyia-lemieux-Moginly


neidimyer-pronger
lidstrom- bourque
orr-Stevens


roy
turco
broduer

 

[pbgoalie]

Of those I have mostly read about:

coach Fred Shero

Syd Howe - Jean Beliveau - Bill Cook
Aurel Joliat - Gil Perreault - Didier Pitre
Herbie Lewis - Frank McGee - Boris Mikhailov
George Hay - Marty Walsh - George Armstrong
Rabbit McVeigh, Konstantin Loktev

Eddie Shore - Jim Neilson
Harvey Pulford - Dickie Boon
Joe Hall - Doug Young
Gennady Tsygankov

Jacques Plante
Johnny Bower

Jim Neilson?!?!? Wow

 

[seventieslord]

Of those I have mostly read about:

coach Fred Shero

Syd Howe - Jean Beliveau - Bill Cook
Aurel Joliat - Gil Perreault - Didier Pitre
Herbie Lewis - Frank McGee - Boris Mikhailov
George Hay - Marty Walsh - George Armstrong
Rabbit McVeigh, Konstantin Loktev

Eddie Shore - Jim Neilson
Harvey Pulford - Dickie Boon
Joe Hall - Doug Young
Gennady Tsygankov

Jacques Plante
Johnny Bower

Some sweet choices there!

 

[MXD]

Bert Olmstead - Mario Lemieux - Maurice Richard
Dickie Moore - Howie Morenz - Boris Mikhailov
Murray Murdoch - Dave Keon - Claude Provost
Mats Naslund - Bobby Smith - Stephane Richer
(because it would make no sense at all to put Phil Watson on that line)

Doug Harvey - Sprague Cleghorne
JC Tremblay - Earl Seibert
Eric Desjardins - Mark Streit
(that pairing doesn't make sense, but where am I supposed to put Streit?!?!?!)

Roy
Plante

 

[MXD]

Of those I have mostly read about:

coach Fred Shero

Syd Howe - Jean Beliveau - Bill Cook
Aurel Joliat - Gil Perreault - Didier Pitre
Herbie Lewis - Frank McGee - Boris Mikhailov
George Hay - Marty Walsh - George Armstrong
Rabbit McVeigh, Konstantin Loktev

Eddie Shore - Jim Neilson
Harvey Pulford - Dickie Boon
Joe Hall - Doug Young
Gennady Tsygankov

Jacques Plante
Johnny Bower

I'm extremely surprised to see Rabbit McVeigh's name being mentionned...

 

[VanIslander]

I'm extremely surprised to see Rabbit McVeigh's name being mentionned...

Why?

I keep coming across interesting references to the 1923 WCHL all-star, 1927 NHL retroSelke winning, fast and feisty left winger Charley "Rabbit" McVeigh. The tough little 5'6 superpest wasn't a scorer per se but was a scoring line role player, having played nine full NHL seasons mostly on one of the top lines after four years in the Western league, having four times scored double digits in NHL goals, his last six years double digits in assists.

from TIME magazine, March 10th, 1941:

A star forward, the scrappy little fellow made a name for himself as a rough-&-tumble player, who never minded how big they came.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,790048,00.html

from the Montreal Gazette, Nov 30th 1931:

the pestiferous Rabbit McVeigh

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=rabbit+McVeigh+americans&start=10&sa=N

One of the smaller players in the league, he was known for his agility and speed which saw him play every position on the front line

http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...eigh+kenora+thistles&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca

Ottawa Citizen, Oct.16 1928, after being traded from the Blackhawks to NY:

"McVeigh is a colorful player and will be well liked by the fans"

Here he ties up the game with 5 seconds remaining in a come from 0-4 behind 5-4 victory for the Chicago Blackhawks over the Montreal Maroons in 1927:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=COb...esnum=1&ved=0CAUQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[seventieslord]

Why?

I think he was only saying so because McVeigh is so relatively obscure, and it was more of a compliment to your astuteness

 

[CHGoalie27]

Byfuglien-Lemieux-Ovechkin
Tikkanen-Gretzky-Bure
Kovalev-Messier-Booth
Kocur-Campbell-Fotiu

Leetch-Beukeboom
Stevens-Ballard
Konstantinov-Coffey

Lundqvist
Richter
Vanbiesbrouck

 

[revolverjgw]

the pestiferous Rabbit McVeigh

Note to self... the adjective "pestiferous" is awesome, be sure to use it in the future.

 

[Stray Wasp]

Peter Forsberg-Peter Stastny-Maurice Richard
Mats Naslund-Igor Larionov-Gordie Howe
Bob Gainey-Saku Koivu-Jere Lehtinen
Steve Thomas-Denis Savard-Mike Blaisdell

Niklas Lidstrom-Larry Robinson
Vladimir Konstantinov-Brian Leetch
Eric Desjardins-Stephen Cooper

Patrick Roy
Jimmy Foster
Stephen Foster

I was surprised how hard to fill out the lw position it was.

Didn't Blaisdell play LW, or is my mind playing tricks on me?

 

[Psycho Papa Joe]

Lafleur Gretzky Lemieux
Cournoyer Yzerman MatsNaslund
L.MacDonald Sittler Shanahan
Middleton S.Koivu K.Muller

Robinson Chelios
Salming Park
S.Savard A.Markov

Dryden
Cheevers

 

[DaveG]

Bobby Hull - Mario Lemieux - Gordie Howe
Luc Robitaille - Jean Beliveau - Maurice Richard
Bob Gainey - Ron Francis - Rod Brind'Amour
Gary Roberts - Brian Trottier - Cam Neely
Valeri Kharlamov, Boris Mikhailov

Bobby Orr - Doug Harvey
Ray Bourque - Rod Langway
Slava Fetisov - Alexei Kasatonov
Vladimir Konstantinov

Ken Dryden
Vladislav Tretiak
Cam Ward

 

[GB]

Didn't Blaisdell play LW, or is my mind playing tricks on me?

He certainly played RW in the NHL. My memories of his time at Durham are him being right wing with Ian Cooper on the left wing and Brebant in the centre.

 

[cynicism]

Based on who I saw play (i'm a bit of a youngin' as you'll see). And not paying too much attention to position

Lafontaine-Lemieux-Ovechkin
Neely-Gretzky-Bure
Muller-Gilmour-Hull
Fleury-Peca-Nieuwyndyk

Coffey-MacInnis
Pronger-Blake
Lidstrom-Chara


Hasek
Roy
Cujo

 

[Stray Wasp]

He certainly played RW in the NHL. My memories of his time at Durham are him being right wing with Ian Cooper on the left wing and Brebant in the centre.

Frightening how long ago it is now.

Even more frightening how little recall I have of that time.

 

[GB]

Frightening how long ago it is now.

Even more frightening how little recall I have of that time.

Yeah, my son is roughly the age I was during Blaisdell's first full season for Durham. The Wasps moved half my life ago, frightening is right.

 

[VMBM]

Bobby Hull - Mario Lemieux - Gordie Howe
Luc Robitaille - Jean Beliveau - Maurice Richard
Bob Gainey - Ron Francis - Rod Brind'Amour
Gary Roberts - Boris Mikhailov - Cam Neely
Valeri Kharlamov, Brian Trottier

Bobby Orr - Doug Harvey
Ray Bourque - Rod Langway
Slava Fetisov - Alexei Kasatonov
Vladimir Konstantinov

Ken Dryden
Vladislav Tretiak
Cam Ward

Boris Mikhailov as center? That's fairly unnatural position for him, I'd say.

 

[HyeDray]

Id match up the 1983 New York Islanders as is...they were my favorite "team." Im not sure there was a more balanced, and complete team. The right players in the right positions, not necessarily an all-star team.

Id put that team up against the great Oiler and Canadien teams and feel confident about their chances to win on any given night!

_____________________


Check my latest blog on the NY Islanders at http://hockeyindependent.com/blog/hyedray/22144/

 

[DaveG]

Boris Mikhailov as center? That's fairly unnatural position for him, I'd say.

could always switch him up with Brindy

 

[iamtherunner]

Bertuzzi-Lemieux-Lafleur
Bobby Hull-Sakic-Bossy
Bure-Linden-Naslund
H. Richard-Beliveau-M. Richard


Orr-Coffey
Savard-Robinson
Niedermeyer-MacInnis

Sawchuk
McLean