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JordanStaal#1Fan
Jean Beliveau was not born in Montreal, but Trois-Rivieres.
And Gilbert Perreault is from Victoriaville, not Montreal.
Jean Beliveau was not born in Montreal, but Trois-Rivieres.
Québec:
Michael Bossy – Mario Lemieux – Maurice « Rocket » Richard
Marcel Dionne - Jean Béliveau – Guy 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
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]
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]
Your omission of John Mayasich and Henry Boucha is beyond belief. Please explain the omission of Steve Christoff, Gary Sargent & Bill Nyrop.
Dude, Schneider lived in NJ until age 12 then moved to Rhode Island. Bouillion was born in NY but grew up in Canada.
Nick Fotiu has zero business being in the top 12.
Team Massachusetts
G - Barrasso, Carey, Dipietro
D - Langway, O'Connell, Whitney, Dunn, O'Callahan, Norton, Fusco
F - Carpenter, Amonte, S. Young, Ftorek, Bill Cleary, Guerin, Tkachuk, Fitzgerald,
Rowe, Fidler, McEachern, Stevens, Fusco
Most people claim Roenick is a Mass player, he was born in Boston, but he lived in Conn until at least he was 12, then moved to Mass at about age 14. I don't consider him a Mass kid.
And to take a page out of your book, where's Darren Turcotte, Mike Milbury, Jay Pandolfo, Dave Silk, etc....
Tom Rowe? A journeyman with 1 30 goal season and a -80 career over say defensive forward specialist Doug Brown who played 14 years with 160 goals and a career +112? Hell, I'd pick Chris Nilan over him....
Mark Fusco? Really? He of 80 NHL games? Over Milbury, Yandle, Gilll, Stanton, Poti, etc.... Really?
Is that Mike O'Connell listed as a defensemen? He was born in Chicago. Is it because he grew up in Cohasset after living in Cleveland? How different is that from Roenick?
Semantics.....sigh.....*
First off, I'm not from Minnesota so I don't have a complete knowledge of the history.
Second off, I used stats from Hockey Reference and what little i can remember from watching them in the past.
Third off, I tried to line them up according to position. Some may be playing off wing but I tried to keep them as close to their playing positions.
Fourth off, no one had come up with a Minnesota team (or a lot of others I posted) and thought it would be fun to put one together and create some debate/interest, so lighten up.
I don't know John Mayasich at all. From what I've read since I checked he seems like a damn good player.
Henry Boucha and Steve Christoff are centers. They don't even come close to the numbers or playing experience of those I listed before them.
Bill Nyrop was not listed in the Hockey Reference as being from Minnesota in the Frivolties / NHL birthplaces window and is in fact listed as having been born in Washington, DC. I can't take into account where the players spent most of their childhood. Do you really think he could stack up against those defensemen I listed? And out of curiosity, whre was he between 1979 to 1981?
Gary Sargent is closest to any of these guys that should've been considered.
He was born in Boston, hence he MA born, a native. I know it's but semantics but this is where he was born.First Turcotte never grew up in Mass Bubba.
Fusco played a grand total of 80 games in the NHL, (the premier hockey league on the planet) scored a grand total of 15 points and was a -21. He played at Harvard for 4 years and was on the US National team and olympics for a grand total of 56 games and 28 total points.Mark Fusco is in the US Hockey Hall of fame, where is Mike Milbury? Case closed.
Woulda, shoulda, coulda....you got a few years brilliance over a consistent entity of longevity. Like saying Tony Conigliaro was better than Carl Yastrzemski.Tom Rowe in 1978-79 set the record for goals by an American born player with 31 in only 69 games at the age of 23. It placed him roughly #26 in the entire NHL. Rowe suffered injuries the following season and never regained his goal scoring abilities. Healthy he had the capability to become a consistent 30 goal scorer and may have maxed out at 40. Rowe was fast, good sized and had a good shot. Rowe and Nilan were within two years of each other growing up in Greater Boston and you would get
no one outside of Nilans family and friends that would have remotley put Nilan in Rowe's class in high school, college, juniors and thru when Rowe suffered injuries. I've seen every Massachusett kid fom Hebner to Kreider and I can tell you right now at his peak Rowe would have been considered a top 9 forward on any Mass All-time team no questions asked.
Again, semantics....he grew up in MA, but he wasn't born here.... Again, how different is Roenicke from O'Connell....by just a few years? And what of MA natives who spend their hockey years at Mt St Charles? What about NH natives who move here to go to JV and Varsity hockey at CM?O'Connell played the majority of his youth hockey in Mass, he's a Mass kid.
Mark Fusco is in the US Hockey Hall of fame, where is Mike Milbury? Case closed.