Speculation: Best lineup you could ice using players since team inception?

[BlackDogg]

Was just looking back on some of the players that have gone through from Gretzky to McDavid and began to wonder, if you could put together an Oiler team using any player lineup from the present and past Oiler pool, what would it look like:

Mine might look like this:


Tikkanen - Gretzky - Kurri
Simpson - McDavid - Anderson
Hall - Messier - Nilsson
Marchant - Nichols - Geurin

Coffey - Pronger
Lowe - Huddy
Sourey - Visnovski
Hamrlik - Mironov

Fuhr
Joseph

Click to read more...

 

[Spawn]

Smyth over Marchant
Weight over Nicholls
Hemsky or Drai over Nilsson

Based on their time as Oilers vs their entire careers.

Honestly I'd also be tempted to bump Guerin too. He was a good player for the Oilers, but hardly an elite one. And he barely played more than 200 games here.

 

[5 14 6 1]

Messier - Gretzky - Kurri
Hall - McDavid - Anderson
Smyth - Weight - Simpson
Tikanen - Arnott - Hemsky

Coffey - Pronger
Lowe - Huddy
Visnovsky - Gator


Fuhr
Cujo

 

[GreatGretz99]

Messier - Gretzky - Kurri
Hall - McDavid - Anderson
Smyth - Weight - Simpson
Tikanen - Arnott - Hemsky

Coffey - Pronger
Lowe - Huddy
Visnovsky - Gator


Fuhr
Cujo

That line might break the speedforce!

 

[Cloned]

Leetch and Oates.

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

Was just looking back on some of the players that have gone through from Gretzky to McDavid and began to wonder, if you could put together an Oiler team using any player lineup from the present and past Oiler pool, what would it look like:

Mine might look like this:


Tikkanen - Gretzky - Kurri
Simpson - McDavid - Anderson
Hall - Messier - Nilsson
Marchant - Nichols - Geurin

Coffey - Pronger
Lowe - Huddy
Sourey - Visnovski
Hamrlik - Mironov

Fuhr
Joseph

So many names do not deserve to be on this list....Marchant? Nicholls? Wow

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

Messier - Gretzky - Kurri
Hall - McDavid - Anderson
Smyth - Weight - Simpson
Tikanen - Arnott - Hemsky

Coffey - Pronger
Lowe - Huddy
Visnovsky - Gator


Fuhr
Cujo

This is a little better. I'd replace Cujo with Ranford. Visnovsky replaced by Steve Smith
Simpson would be ahead of Hall.