Yrs. Of Birth Tourney Week 8 Matchday 5 Match 13: 1979 vs. 1976

[tony d]

We are back for another week of exciting action from the yrs. of birth tourney.

If anyone wishes me to make any lineup changes, let me know. Some of these players are played out of position to best fit different players into the lineup.

Lineup decisions based upon stats from hockeyreference.com.

Remember for current players to vote based upon career projections and for retired players to vote based upon their careers.

Our 13th match of Week 8 is 1979 (0-6) vs. 1976 (4-2)

1979: 0-6 Lost 4-2 to 1959 in Week 7

NHL Players Born in 1979 | Hockey-Reference.com

Patrick Marleau-Joe Thornton-Marian Hossa
Chris Kunitz-Scott Gomez-Brian Gionta
Brenden Morrow-Jason Chimera-Johan Franzen
Ryan Malone-Alex Tanguay-Pascal Dupuis

Brian Campbell-Brad Stuart
Eric Brewer-Paul Mara
Henrik Tallinder-Scott Hannan

Roberto Luongo
Curtis Sanford

1976: 4-2 Beat 1968 7-4 in Week 7

NHL Players Born in 1976 | Hockey-Reference.com

Ryan Smyth-Chris Drury-Milan Hejduk
Patrik Elias-Daymond Langkow-Petr Sykora
Radek Bonk-Steve Reinprecht-Shane Doan
Jeff Friesen-Matt Cullen-Jeff O'neill

Dan Boyle-Ed Jovanovski
Lubomir Visnovsky-Mattias Ohlund
Oleg Tverdovsky-Kim Jonssson

Miika Kiprusoff
Tomas Vokoun

1976 got my vote.

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[Hennessy]

I think this might be the closest of the match-ups I've seen.