Your team 00s dream team

[Eye of Ra]

Atalanta Trashers:

Lehtonen
Hedberg

Enstrom - F.Kaberle
Hainsey - Bogosian
Havelid - Tjarnqvist

Kovalchuk - Savard - Hossa
Heatley - Peverley - Afinogenov
Kozlov - Little - Mellanby
Brunette - Ferraro - Audette

 

[Rich Nixon]

This is might be the best team in this thread, at least up front:

Leclair-Lindros-Jagr
Gagne-Forsberg-Giroux
Roenick-Briere-Voracek
Carter-Couturier-Richards

Desjardins-Pronger
Timonen-Hatcher
Provorov-Streit

Bobrovsky
Emery

if you disqualify Lindros because he only played a few months after 2000, then shuffle those forwards around and add one of Brindamour, Sharp, Williams, or Primeau. jesus that’s some hockey names there though.

 

[Daximus]

If it's Thrashers/Jets with each player in their prime.

Kozlov - Savard - Kovalchuk
Heatley - Scheifele - Hossa
Bondra - Little - Wheeler
Tkachuk - Ferraro - Recchi

Enstrom - Buff
Morrissey - Trouba
Zhitnik - Kaberle

Lehtonen
Hellebuyck

 

[Eye of Ra]

Minnesota Wild:

Dubnyk
Backstrom

Suter - Burns
Spurgeon - Brodin
Johnsson - Zidlicky

Gaborik - Koivu - Granlund
Parise - Staal - Pominville
Havlat - Demitra - Nino
Rolston - Bouchard - Vanek

 

[Eye of Ra]

Arizona:

Smith
Raanta

OEL - Hjalmarsson
Murphy - Yandle
Goligoski - Demers

Domi - Keller - Doan
Galchenuyk - Stepan - Rieder
Bodker - Hanzal - Vrbata
Panik - Schmaltz - Duclair


Phoenix:

Smith
Bryzgalov

Numminen - Yandle
OEL - Jovanovski
Morris - Mara

Tkachuk - Roenick - Doan
Nagy - Hanzal - Vrbata
Whitney - Briere - Johnson
Saprykin - Langkow - Upshall

 

[KingBran]

Tkachuk-Turgeon-Tarasenko
Kariya-Demitra-Young
McDonald-O’Reilly-Backes
Perron-Weight-Oshie

Pronger-MacInnis
Jackman-Pietrangelo
Salvador-Parayko

Binnington
Halak

tkachuk-turgeon-tarasenko
Kariya-ROR-Schwartz
demitra-weight-mcdonald
steen-backes-oshie


pronger-macinnis
EJ-pietrangelo
shattenkirk-parayko

osgood
Binnington
elliott

Brodeur!

 

[jaysoneil]

Give me

Ovechkin-Crosby-Kovalchuk

Stevens-Niedermayer

Brodeur

If only it worked that way.

 

[Bertuzzzi44]

Naslund-Pettersson-Bertuzzi
Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Sundin-Horvat-Boeser
Higgins-Kesler-Hansen
Demitra Morrison

Hamuis-Ohlund
Jovanovski-Salo
Edler-Tanev
Erhoff Bieksa

Luongo
Schneider
Miller

 

[Magic Mittens]

Benn-Seguin-Radulov
Hull-Modano-Lehtinen
Eriksson-Richards-Nieuwendyk
Morrow-Ribeiro-Arnott

Zubov-Klingberg
Goligoski-Robidas (yuck)
Hatcher-Boucher/Sydor/Miro

Turco
Bishop

If I limit it to just their time in Dallas that is probably what I would go with. It was tough with guys like Hull, Hatcher, Nieuwendyk and Sydor because they are mainly known for their time in the late 90's and a couple of those guys only played 1-2 seasons post 2000. They're Dallas legends though so I had to include them. Post 2000 and until Benn, Seguin, and Klingberg came along Dallas went through a long period of mediocrity with a few good teams/players sprinkled in. Morrow, Eriksson, and Ribeiro are probably the best players from those mediocre years that played in Dallas more than just 2-3 seasons. Kari Lehtonen carried a lot of bad teams in his time at Dallas but I don't think anyone will have issue with Bishop being on there after just two seasons.

Lindell and Miro will be kicking off a couple of those dmen within a year or two.

For fun Dallas could have a 4th line of
Roussel - Ott - Avery lol

 

[Newusername]

If everyone is in their prime who has a better forward core?

Kariya - Sakic - Selanne
Tanguay - Forsberg- Iginla
Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen
O'Reilly - Duchene - Hejduk

Bourque - Blake
Barrie - Foote
Beauchemin - Johnson

Roy
Thedore

 

[matt trick]

Heatley-Thornton-Cheechoo
Marleau-Couture-Selanne
Hertl-Damphousse-Nolan
Meier-Ricci-Pavelski
Kane, S. Thornton

Hannan-Karlsson
Boyle-Blake
Vlasic-Burns
Ehrhoff

Nabby
Jones

I feel like I constantly bitch about San Jose’s offensive defenseman (which stopped last year with a certain acquisition), but that’s a good group!

 

[Javaman]

I guess we get each player at their peak?
(lines and esp. d-pairings might not line up perfectly)

Sedin-Sedin-Bertuzzi
Naslund-Sundin-Pettersson
Demitra-Kesler-Boeser
Burrows-Horvat-Eriksson

Ehrhoff-Jovanovski
Edler-Hamhuis
Bieksa-Mitchell?

Luongo
Miller

I was about to go full WTF on this and rant away about how nobody has commented on Eriksson's inclusion....

And then I realized, it doesn't actually have to be about the player's performance with that team -- we are free to assume peak performance. Right?

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Naslund-Pettersson-Bertuzzi
Kesler-Sundin-Boeser
Demitra-Horvat-Samuelsson

I just can't bring myself to include Eriksson lol

Defense is good, but I'd prefer Salo to Mitchell.

 

[Eye of Ra]

I was about to go full WTF on this and rant away about how nobody has commented on Eriksson's inclusion....

And then I realized, it doesn't actually have to be about the player's performance with that team -- we are free to assume peak performance. Right?

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Naslund-Pettersson-Bertuzzi
Kesler-Sundin-Boeser
Demitra-Horvat-Samuelsson

I just can't bring myself to include Eriksson lol

Defense is good, but I'd prefer Salo to Mitchell.

no love for öhlund?

 

[Siludin]

I was about to go full WTF on this and rant away about how nobody has commented on Eriksson's inclusion....

And then I realized, it doesn't actually have to be about the player's performance with that team -- we are free to assume peak performance. Right?

Sedin-Sedin-Burrows
Naslund-Pettersson-Bertuzzi
Kesler-Sundin-Boeser
Demitra-Horvat-Samuelsson

I just can't bring myself to include Eriksson lol

Defense is good, but I'd prefer Salo to Mitchell.

I mean the big question is "is Eriksson's peak better than Samuelsson's peak" and I would argue that it was. We have fond memories of Samuelsson but Eriksson has had multiple solid 1st-liner type seasons while Samuelsson had maybe 1-2 where he looked top-6.