Best 5-men unit in hockey?

[artilector]

In other words, what is hockey's dream-team starting five?

I say, add:

Ovechkin-Forsberg-Iginla
Chara-Niedermayer(healthy)

to the Kazakhstan roster, and they make the finals. (OK, semi-finals)

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[Snap Wilson]

In other words, what is hockey's dream-team starting five?

You could add Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr and Aki Berg to the Kazakhstan team and they wouldn't make the finals. Be serious.

 

[artilector]

You could add Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr and Aki Berg to the Kazakhstan team and they wouldn't make the finals. Be serious.

Lighten up..
Instead criticism for its own sake, why not propose your best 5-men unit?

 

[edd1e]

You could add Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr and Aki Berg to the Kazakhstan team and they wouldn't make the finals. Be serious.

But if you remove those other and leave Aki there they would definitely be in the finals

 

[sunb]

You could add Bobby Hull, Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr and Aki Berg to the Kazakhstan team and they wouldn't make the finals. Be serious.

I think that they would.

Mario Lemieux - Wayne Gretzky - Bobby Hull
Bobby Orr - Doug Harvey
Dominek Hasek

If you added those guys (in their primes) to the Kazakhstani national team, there is a good chance that such a team could surprise and make the finals.

Orr and Harvey would be, by far, the best two defensemen in the tournament. Given that both can play 40 min a night and make the defensive partners that much better, you're basically going to have a solid defense with one of them on the ice at all times.

Lemieux, Gretzky and Hull can each play 30 min. A Lemieux + Howe + anyone else would arguably give you the best offensive line in the tournament. Split 30 min between that line and 30 min between a winger - Gretzky - winger line and that offense would be solid.

And put in a guy like Hasek who can steal games, I don't see how you can definitively say that this team has no chance of making the finals.

 

[shawn_kemp*]

whatever unit Aki Berg is on is the best!

 

[Slitty]

No, Proshkin is all anyone could possibly need!~

 

[KH1]

Best of all time:

Mario Lemeiux - Wayne Gretzky - Marcel Dionne
Bobby Orr - Denis Potvin
Patrick Roy

Best currently:

Alexander Ovechkin - Peter Forsberg - Jaromir Jagr
Scott Niedermayer - Nicklas Lidstrom
Martin Brodeur

 

[shawn_kemp*]

No, Proshkin is all anyone could possibly need!~

yeah but people don't know him well here. it's a Russian thing

 

[Ovechkin_mvp]

Mario Lemeiux - Wayne Gretzky - Kharlamov
Orr - Lindstrom
Tretiak

that would be the best of all time

 

[C-J...*]

Mario Lemeiux - Wayne Gretzky - Kharlamov
Orr - Lindstrom
Tretiak

that would be the best of all time

Lidström?

 

[C-J...*]

Any line without both Forsberg and Jagr, is a joke.

Brodeur has been outperformed by a bunch of goalies this season.

Alfredsson - Forsberg - Jagr

Lidström - Pronger

Lundqvist

 

[Vote for Rory]

Lidström?

no, Lidstrom. Get it right.

 

[C-J...*]

no, Lidstrom. Get it right.

His name is Lidström, not Lidstrom. He´s Swedish incase you´ve forgot.

 

[Jimmi McJenkins]

yeah but people don't know him well here. it's a Russian thing

Who in North America would he be comparable to??

because from his measurables he looks like he would be dominant

 

[ktulu98]

well i would choose this 5 guys

Paul Kariya/Ovechkin - Peter Forsberg - Peter Bondra

Rob Blake - Scotty Niedermayer

 

[artilector]

Any line without both Forsberg and Jagr, is a joke.

Brodeur has been outperformed by a bunch of goalies this season.

Alfredsson - Forsberg - Jagr

Lidström - Pronger

Lundqvist

Wrong. Individually, yes, but on the same line, they are not complimentary, IMO.
I'll revise my suggestion with Lidstrom, though:

Ovechkin-Forsberg-Iginla
Lidstrom-Niedermayer
Lundqvist