Better All-Time Roster: Anaheim Ducks Or Tampa Bay Lightning

[DitchMarner]

In these polls, I'm including only players who spent at least two seasons with a franchise on their all-time rosters.

For relocated franchises, I am including worthy players who played for the franchises prior to relocation(s).

Consider how good a player was when he played for the franchise whose roster he's included on. For example: If Fedorov is part of Team Columbus, don't think of him as the 1994 version of the player.

Anaheim Ducks defeated Winnipeg Jets 39 votes to 2 (95.1%) in round one: Better All-Time Roster: Anaheim Ducks Or Winnipeg Jets? | HFBoards - NHL Message Board and Forum for National Hockey League (mandatory.com) and lost to Washington Capitals 41 votes to 14 (74.5%) in round two: Better All-Time Roster: Anaheim Ducks Or Washington Capitals

Tampa Bay Lightning lost to Calgary Flames 48 votes to 43 (52.7%) in round one: Better All-Time Roster: Calgary Flames Or Tampa Bay Lightning? | HFBoards - NHL Message Board and Forum for National Hockey League (mandatory.com) and defeated Vancouver Canucks 35 votes to 9 (79.5%) in round two: Better All-Time Roster: Tampa Bay Lightning Versus Vancouver Canucks

Anaheim Ducks:

Paul Kariya - Ryan Getzlaf - Teemu Selanne
Rickard Rakell - Andy McDonald - Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano - Ryan Kesler - Sami Pahlsson
Steve Rucchin - Saku Koivu - Jakob Silfverberg

Scott Niedermayer - Chris Pronger
Hampus Lindholm - Francois Beauchemin
Cam Fowler - Ruslan Salei

Jean-Sebastien Giguere
John Gibson


Tampa Bay Lightning:

Vaclav Prospal - Vincent Lecavalier - Martin. St. Louis
Steven Stamkos - Brad Richards - Nikita Kucherov
Ondrej Palat - Brayden Point - Freddy Modin
John Cullen - Brian Bradley - Tyler Johnson

Victor Hedman - Dan Boyle
Roman Hamrlik - Pavel Kubina
Ryan McDonagh - Anton Stralman

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Nikolai Khabibulin​

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[Plural]

Tampa for me. Dicks have better 1st line and 1st pair but overall depth goes to Tampa. Point as your #3C is just too much.

 

[Ducks in a row]

Paul Kariya - Andy McDonald - Teemu Selanne
Bobby Ryan - Ryan Getzlaf - Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano - Ryan Kesler - Jakob Silfverberg
Travis Moen - Sami Pahlsson - Rob Niedermayer

Line 1: Speedy scoring line
Line 2: Big skilled line that worked well in the past
Line 3: A shutdown line that can score and worked well in the past
Line 4: Stanley Cup winning MVP line

That should be the forward line for the Ducks

 

[Regal]

Paul Kariya - Andy McDonald - Teemu Selanne
Bobby Ryan - Ryan Getzlaf - Corey Perry
Andrew Cogliano - Ryan Kesler - Jakob Silfverberg
Travis Moen - Sami Pahlsson - Rob Niedermayer

That should be the forward lines

Tough to not include some guys like Rucchin, but yea, keeping lines that already worked well together like this (other than combining the Kariya-Selanne duo with McDonald-Selanne) that also all fit roles on a team perfectly would work really well.

 

[Elvs]

If the criteria is that two seasons with said franchise is enough to be included, then Lubomir Visnovsky should absolutely be on the Ducks roster. He led all defensemen in scoring in 2011 and was 4th for the Norris that year. Fowler and Salei (RIP) of course has the longevity, though.

There's however no way Rickard Rakell should be on this team ahead of Bobby Ryan.

These changes probably doesn't put Anaheim ahead of Tampa anyway, though.

 

[Voight]

Wow No respect for Ruslan Fedotenko who singlehandedly clinched Tampas first cup

 

[SupremeNachos]

Tampa for me. Dicks have better 1st line and 1st pair but overall depth goes to Tampa. Point as your #3C is just too much.

Woah what's with the name calling

 

[Paul4587]

Bobby Ryan, Lubomir Visnovksy and Chris Kunitz should all be on the Ducks side. I would take off Rakell and Cogliano up front and Salei (RIP) on defense.

It doesn't matter though, this is easily Tampa.