All-Time Province Teams

[Blades of Glory]

Or state. Although I'm pretty sure Massachusetts and Minnesota are the only two states that you could actually make a team for. You probably have to mess around with positions when it comes to Quebec and Ontario.

Saskatchwan:

Sid Abel-Bryan Trottier-Gordie Howe
Doug Bentley-Max Bentley-Theo Fleury
Bert Olmstead-Elmer Lach-Brian Propp
Harry Watson-Bernie Federko-Clark Gillies

Eddie Shore-Brad Mccrimmon
Fern Flaman-Lyle Odelein
Bob Baun-Ron Greschner

Glenn Hall
Johnny Bower

Quite the top line and decent depth overall. That defense was tough to choose after Shore, Mccrimmon, and Flaman. Nice goaltending.

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[Sala90]

Québec:

Michael Bossy – Mario Lemieux – Maurice « Rocket » Richard
Marcel Dionne - Jean B̩liveau РGuy Lafleur
Édouard « Newsy » Lalonde - Gilbert Perreault – Michel Goulet
Luc Robitaille – Denis Savard – Claude « Pépé » Lemieux

Raymond Bourque – Denis Potvin
Guy Lapointe - Doug Harvey
Serge Savard – Émile « Butch » Bouchard

Patrick Roy – Martin Brodeur

 

[FrozenJagrt]

Ontario. Likely missed a few, and I cheated on some positions, sue me. I'm not much of a historian.

Bobby Hull-Wayne Gretzky-Brett Hull
Frank Mahovlich-Phil Esposito-Mike Gartner
Ted Lindsay-Ron Francis-Rick Tocchet
Darryl Sittler- Eric Lindros-Adam Oates

Bobby Orr-Larry Robinson
Paul Coffey-Scott Stevens
Denis Potvin-Larry Murphy
Brad Park


Ken Dryden
Tony Esposito

 

[JackFr]

How many times a day are we going to have this thread?

 

[arrbez]

How many times a day are we going to have this thread?

It's never enough, haha.

My Team Ontario:

Ted Lindsay - Wayne Gretzky - Charlie Conacher
Bobby Hull - Stan Mikita - Bill Cook
Frank Mahovlich - Howie Morenz - Cyclone Taylor
Bob Gainey - Frank Nighbor - Hooley Smith
(best checking line ever)

Bobby Orr - Denis Potvin
Larry Robinson - Red Kelly
Brad Park - Scott Stevens

Ken Dryden
Clint Benedict
Bill Durnan​

 

[arrbez]

Québec:

Michael Bossy – Mario Lemieux – Maurice « Rocket » Richard
Marcel Dionne - Jean B̩liveau РGuy Lafleur
Édouard « Newsy » Lalonde - Gilbert Perreault – Michel Goulet
Luc Robitaille – Denis Savard – Claude « Pépé » Lemieux

Raymond Bourque – Denis Potvin
Guy Lapointe - Doug Harvey
Serge Savard – Émile « Butch » Bouchard

Patrick Roy – Martin Brodeur

Lalonde and Potvin are from Ontario.

Quebec obviously has plenty of other options though.

Bernie Geoffrion, Pierre Pilote, Joe Malone, Sprague Cleghorn, etc could all be on the team.

Claude Lemieux?

 

[JackSlater]

The Ontario team is easily superior to any other all time national team, and wouldn't be completely outclassed by an all time team from the rest of the provinces. The all time teams for the Atlantic provinces, even if you put them together, would hardly match up with any other province or major national team though.

 

[BubbaBoot]

Nova Scotia

Mike McPhee - Sidney Crosby - Glenn Murray
Lowell MacDonald - Bobby Smith - Doug Sulliman
Jon Sim - Parker MacDonald - Tony Currie
Eric Boulton - Brad Marchand - Dennis Bonvie
[Bill Riley]

Al MacInnis - Flash Hollett
Colin White - Paul Boutilier
Al MacNeil - Cam Russell
[Aaron Johnson]

Pokey Reddick
Joey MacDonald
[Wendell Young]

 

[WingsFan95]

The Ontario team is easily superior to any other all time national team, and wouldn't be completely outclassed by an all time team from the rest of the provinces. The all time teams for the Atlantic provinces, even if you put them together, would hardly match up with any other province or major national team though.

Yeah....Gretz, Orr, Hull and Dryden?

Game over man.

 

[BubbaBoot]

All - Maritimes

Mike McPhee - Sidney Crosby - Glenn Murray
Gerard Gallant - Bobby Smith - Al MacAdam
Lowell MacDonald - Brad Richards - Gordie Drillon
Errol Thompson - Greg Malone - Danny Grant
[Jon Sim / Scott Pellerin - Parker MacDonald / Forbes Kennedy - Michael Ryder / Ed Wiseman / Joe Lamb / Bob MacMillan]

Al MacInnis - Flash Hollett
Keith Brown - Al MacNeil
Colin White - Don Sweeney
[George Allen / Dave Pichette]

Rollie Melanson
Garry Simmons
[Pokey Reddick]

 

[BubbaBoot]

Yeah....Gretz, Orr, Hull and Dryden?

Game over man.

Unbelievable top 6 defenseman:
Bobby Orr - Denis Potvin
Larry Robinson - Red Kelly
Brad Park - Scott Stevens

How about this for the B team defensemen:
Paul Coffey - Larry Murphy
Doug Wilson - Tim Horton
Harry Howell - King Clancy

Or C team:
Rob Blake - Chris Pronger
Allen Stanley - Lionel Conacher
Leo Boivin - Bill Quakenbush

...and there's still 6 or so more HoFers not even listed yet.

Bloody sick.....

 

[BubbaBoot]

All Toronto:

Steve Shutt - Dale Hawerchuk - Rick Middleton
Busher Jackson - Dennis Maruk - Mike Murphy
Roy Conacher - Paul Gardner - Charlie Conacher
Adam Graves - Hooley Smith - John Anderson
[LW - Brad May / Steve Payne / Steve Vickers]
[C - Gerry Meehan / Michael Peca / Keith Primeau / Syl Apps / Peter Zezel / Mel Bridgeman / Kris Draper]
[RW - Mike Knuble / Fred Stanfield / Tony Tanti / Mark Napier / Gary Leeman / Billy Harris / Pat Flately / Anson Carter]

Brad Park - Bill Quakenbush
Lionel Conacher - Bruce Driver
Dave Roberts - Craig Muni
[Bill White / Warren Godfrey / Adam Foote / Carl Brewer]

George Hainsworth
Roy Worters
Bill Durnan

 

[BubbaBoot]

All Ottawa

John Ogrodnick - Rod Brind'Amour - Mike Gartner
Aurele Joliat - Syd Howe - Rcik Vaive
Mike Corrigan - Mike Bullard - Tim Higgins
Stew Gavin - Frank Boucher - Matthew Barnaby
[Bill Collins - Dan Quinn / Marc Savard - Punch Broadbent]

Denis Potvin - King Clancy
Ebbie Goodfellow - Doug Wilson
Jeff Brown - Georges Boucher
[Dan Boyle - Adrian Aucoin - Hap Day]

Clint Benedict
Alec Connell
[John Davidson / Wayne Thomas]

 

[BubbaBoot]

All Montreal

Luc Robitaille - Mario Lemieux - Maurice Richard
Dickie Moore - Gilbert Perrault - Mike Bossy
Tony McKegney - Jean Beliveau - Bernie Geoffrion
Don Marshall - Nels Stewart - Rod Gilbert
[Sylvain Turgeon - Henri Richard / Vincent Damphousse - Scott Mellanby / Bobby Rousseau / Claude Provost / Mario Tremblay]

Raymond Bourque - Doug Harvey
Guy Lapointe - Sprague Cleghorn
Serge Savard - Sylvio Mantha
[Carol Vadnais - Butch Bouchard - Garry Galley - Gilles Marotte - Ian Turnbull - Robert Picard]

Martin Brodeur
Bernioe Parent
[Gump Worsley - JS Giguere - Roberto Luongo - Eddie Johnston]

 

[BubbaBoot]

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[JaymzB]

All Montreal

Luc Robitaille - Mario Lemieux - Maurice Richard
Dickie Moore - Gilbert Perrault - Mike Bossy
Tony McKegney - Jean Beliveau - Bernie Geoffrion
Don Marshall - Nels Stewart - Rod Gilbert
[Sylvain Turgeon - Henri Richard / Vincent Damphousse - Scott Mellanby / Bobby Rousseau / Claude Provost / Mario Tremblay]

Raymond Bourque - Doug Harvey
Guy Lapointe - Sprague Cleghorn
Serge Savard - Sylvio Mantha
[Carol Vadnais - Butch Bouchard - Garry Galley - Gilles Marotte - Ian Turnbull - Robert Picard]

Martin Brodeur
Bernioe Parent
[Gump Worsley - JS Giguere - Roberto Luongo - Eddie Johnston]

Jean Beliveau was not born in Montreal, but Trois-Rivieres.

 

[BubbaBoot]

Jean Beliveau was not born in Montreal, but Trois-Rivieres.

Doh! Your right.....oh well, I guess Team Montreal has to go with Henri Richard instead.

 

[BubbaBoot]

Team New York

Erik Cole - Craig Conroy - Joe Mullen
Dustin Brown - Todd Marchant - Brian Gionta
Chris Higgins - Billy Burch - Brian Mullen
Nick Fotiu - Tim Connolly - Patrick Kane
[ - Marty Reasoner - Lee Stempniak / Ryan Callahan / Patrick Kaleta]

Mathieu Schneider - Aaron Miller
Jack Brownschidle - Rob Scuderi
Francis Bouillon - Mike Komisarek
[Zach Bogosian]

Jimmy Howard
Guy Hebert
[Robert Esche / Mike Dunham]

 

[BubbaBoot]

Team Minnesota

Zach Parise - Neil Broten - Dave Christian
Aaron Broten - David Backes - Jamie Langenbrunner
Jason Blake - Joel Otto - Mark Parrish
Tom Chorske - Matt Cullen - Paul Homgren
[Steve Jensen - Mark Pavelich / Derek Plante - Tommy Williams / Trent Klatt]

Phil Housley - Mike Ramsey
Reed Larson - Brett Hedican
Tom Kurvers - Jim Korn
[Jordan Leopold / Keith Ballard / Jim Johnson / Sean Hill]

Frankie Brimsek
Mike Karakas
[Jon Casey]

 

[Gil Gunderson]

All Ottawa

John Ogrodnick - Rod Brind'Amour - Mike Gartner
Aurele Joliat - Syd Howe - Rcik Vaive
Mike Corrigan - Mike Bullard - Tim Higgins
Stew Gavin - Frank Boucher - Matthew Barnaby
[Bill Collins - Dan Quinn / Marc Savard - Punch Broadbent]

Denis Potvin - King Clancy
Ebbie Goodfellow - Doug Wilson
Jeff Brown - Georges Boucher
[Dan Boyle - Adrian Aucoin - Hap Day]

Clint Benedict
Alec Connell
[John Davidson / Wayne Thomas]

Larry Robinson could possibly be added, since he's from around the Ottawa area. Not too sure though.

 

[BubbaBoot]

Team Michigan

Kelly Miller - Mike Modano - Mike Grier
Mike York - Doug Weight - Wayne Pressley
Mike Donnelly - Brian Rolston - Chad LaRose
Mike Hartman - Ryan Kesler - Doug Roberts
[David Booth - Jimmy Carson / David Legwand - Jim Cummins]

Mark Howe - Kevin Hatcher
Al Iafrete - Brian Rafalski
Gordie Roberts - Derian Hatcher
[Ken Morrow / Craig Wolanin / James Wisniewski / Adam Burt / Chris Tamer]

Tim Thomas
Ryan Miller
[John Vanbiesbrouck / Brent Johnson]

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

The Ontario team is easily superior to any other all time national team, and wouldn't be completely outclassed by an all time team from the rest of the provinces. The all time teams for the Atlantic provinces, even if you put them together, would hardly match up with any other province or major national team though.

i think team quebec could compete. team ontario obviously has the depth to field two, maybe three, elite teams, but team quebec has the high end talent to at least keep up. between beliveau, richard, lafleur, geoffrion, mario, bossy, dionne, plus harvey, bourque, and some other high end d-men, and two of the top five goalies ever, that's quite a team.

i don't have it in me to put together an entire BC team, part of it is because i'm unsure of the criteria. yzerman was born in BC but grew up near ottawa, so i wouldn't count him. meanwhile, rod brind'amour was born in ottawa and raised in BC and scott niedermayer was born in edmonton but raised in kamloops. hall of famer joe primeau was also born in ontario but raised in BC.

brett hull is greyer area. he was born in ontario and lived in chicago and winnipeg as a kid, but he moved to north vancouver in his early teens and played junior in penticton, BC before going to college in minnesota.

off the top of my head: sakic, neely, glenn anderson, recchi, kariya, the courtnalls. the best goalie i can think of is andy moog. not great. defensemen are also tough to come by. barry beck?

 

[arrbez]

i think team quebec could compete. team ontario obviously has the depth to field two, maybe three, elite teams, but team quebec has the high end talent to at least keep up. between beliveau, richard, lafleur, geoffrion, mario, bossy, dionne, plus harvey, bourque, and some other high end d-men, and two of the top five goalies ever, that's quite a team.

Quebec is definitely close. They do have an edge in net, but I wouldn't say the difference between Roy/Plante and Dryden is a game-changer. Ontario having Gretzky AND Orr is an edge that's hard to overcome, and Ontario's D has a clear edge IMO despite Quebec having a damn good D of their own. Forward talent is pretty close at the top ends, but Ontario has better depth IMO.

It's interesting that Ontario dominates this matchup at LW, while Quebec clearly has the edge at RW.

Man, they need to make a video game where you can play with every player in the Hall of Fame or something. I love this stuff.

i don't have it in me to put together an entire BC team, part of it is because i'm unsure of the criteria. yzerman was born in BC but grew up near ottawa, so i wouldn't count him. meanwhile, rod brind'amour was born in ottawa and raised in BC and scott niedermayer was born in edmonton but raised in kamloops. hall of famer joe primeau was also born in ontario but raised in BC.

brett hull is greyer area. he was born in ontario and lived in chicago and winnipeg as a kid, but he moved to north vancouver in his early teens and played junior in penticton, BC before going to college in minnesota.

off the top of my head: sakic, neely, glenn anderson, recchi, kariya, the courtnalls. the best goalie i can think of is andy moog. not great. defensemen are also tough to come by. barry beck?

Tiny Thompson was born BC but grew up in Calgary, so I think Moog might be the best tender who's actually from BC. Cesare Maniago was from BC as well by the looks of it. And Olaf Kolzig might have kinda grown up in BC or something? I've never really figured out his life story.

Like you were discussing earlier, I think it just makes sense to list where players grew up instead of where they happened to be born. It does get tough with a guy like Brett Hull, or now Duncan Keith (born in MB, grew up in Ontario until he was 14, and then moved to BC).

Jimmy and Joe Watson are a couple pretty good defensemen from BC. And Scott Niedermayer would count as BC since he grew up there. Along with Beck, that's a decent start. Guys like Scott Hannan and Willie Mitchell have had really solid careers. And Weber and Seabrook will probably be there someday, although it might be a little early yet (or maybe not).

 

[JackSlater]

i think team quebec could compete. team ontario obviously has the depth to field two, maybe three, elite teams, but team quebec has the high end talent to at least keep up. between beliveau, richard, lafleur, geoffrion, mario, bossy, dionne, plus harvey, bourque, and some other high end d-men, and two of the top five goalies ever, that's quite a team.

The gap in defencemen is pretty large in Ontario's favour. Ontario's #6 defenceman (Park/Coffey) is quite a bit better than Quebec's #3 (Pilote I guess). Quebec definitely has a team that can compete, but I can't imagine them beating Ontario in a seven game series for instance. Give Quebec Saskatchewan's best players and you would have two pretty equal teams.

 

[newfy]

All - Maritimes

Mike McPhee - Sidney Crosby - Glenn Murray
Gerard Gallant - Bobby Smith - Al MacAdam
Lowell MacDonald - Brad Richards - Gordie Drillon
Errol Thompson - Greg Malone - Danny Grant
[Jon Sim / Scott Pellerin - Parker MacDonald / Forbes Kennedy - Michael Ryder / Ed Wiseman / Joe Lamb / Bob MacMillan]

Al MacInnis - Flash Hollett
Keith Brown - Al MacNeil
Colin White - Don Sweeney
[George Allen / Dave Pichette]

Rollie Melanson
Garry Simmons
[Pokey Reddick]

I feel like Ryane Clowe could slide in there over guys like Sim