Is there a province that can boast has a better first line right now than Nova Scotia?

[Ms Maggie]

Crosby
MacKinnon
Marchand

Not bad for the 7th biggest province.

Well duh. Obviously.

 

[Yackiberg8]

I got a report someone is getting high and playing hockey in the street.

Yeah, us...

Unreal scene lol

 

[Jorma Heart]

if it's by birth place here is Team Savonia:

Kasperi Kapanen - Joonas Rask - Teemu Hartikainen
Mikko Kokkonen - Rasmus Rissanen

Tuukka Rask

top that

 

[PullHard]

never mind ontario, here is team york region

Skinner - McDavid - Athanasiou
Foegele - Stamkos - Marner
Bennett - Tierney - Sikura
Cirelli - Thomas - Archibald
ex. Blandisi

Del Zotto - Pietrangelo
Dermott - Murphy
x - x

Elliott
x

 

[SaltNPeca]

'85 Gretzky McDavid Seguin, lets go, lol.

Sure.
Then we'll take '90 Messier, '04 Iginla, and '18 Taylor Hall.

 

[MtlBoxFan]

Bearer of bad news. Nova Scotia will never have an NHL team so they don't have a 1st line.

 

[libertarian]

Pretty awesome.

Ontario's is pretty good, too.....

McDavid
Tavares
Seguin

I'd go
McD
Scheifele
Tavares

 

[Gains]

Quebec: Drouin/Bergeron/Marchessault

I'd put Lafreniere in there

 

[Whaleafs]

New Brunswick has one active player in the NHL and that’s Jake Allen
Soooo

Jake Allen-Jake Allen-Jake Allen

Jake Allen-Jake Allen

Jake Allen


Oooofff

Sean Couturier is Arizona born but lived in New Brunswick from 5 years old onward.
Bathurst names street after NHL player from city | CBC News

 

[snipes]

Hopefully Lafrenière will become Quebec's first elite talent in a while.

Best Canadian winger we’ve had in a long time.

I’ve said it before, Lafrenerie is the best forward prospect since McDavid.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Pretty amazing production by a small province like NS. You’d have to think that Crosby’s success will encourage more young kids to take up the game as well.

 

[major major]

When you include defense it falls apart unfortunately. Andrew Macdonald and.... no one.

You could bring back 55 year old Al Macinnis and he'd still be top pair for Nova Scotia.

 

[joe dirte]

You could bring back 55 year old Al Macinnis and he'd still be top pair for Nova Scotia.

Is macinnis an east coaster????
Didnt know that

 

[major major]

New York: Palmieri-Sutter-Kane.

Minnesota: Parise-Stepan-Wheeler

Wisconsin: Galchenyuk-Pavelski-Kessel

California: Zucker-Matthews-Nieto

Connecticut: Pacioretty-Bonino-Atkinson

Massachusetts: Coyle-Eichel-Hayes

Michigan: Kesler-Larkin-Rust

New Jersey: JVR-Gaudreau-Ryan

Washington: Derek Ryan-Tyler Johnson-TJ Oshie

In terms of number of players and I think even quality of players, Minnesota punches way above the weight of it's 5 million people, ahead of all other states and even outperforming some similar sized Canadian provinces.

 

[major major]

I'm proud of my home province, but we'll just have to enjoy the top line distinction while it lasts. Hockey is shifting more and more to athletes that have been highly trained from a young age, which requires your family to have a lot of $$$ and a lot of hockey training resources in your community. Toronto Metro has surpassed the farmboys (and fishermen) and it's going to keep pulling ahead.

Scary part is, for Nova Scotia, there are 4 kids right now that are big, fast and skilled and they are only in Peewee lighting it up. One kid has already put a few Crosby records to bed.

I hope you're right!

 

[major major]

Is macinnis an east coaster????
Didnt know that

Very East Coast. Cape Breton Island. I drove through his hometown of Port Hood recently, and I was tempted to look for the old barn door where he supposedly learned to shoot. It ought to be a tourist site, a true landmark of human acheivement.

 

[Huck Cheever]

So whos their D and G? They're part of the 1st line no?

 

[InglewoodJack]

Quebec is due for another elite talent one of these days. Outside of Bergeron there's no real elite goal scoring talent here.

 

[93LEAFS]

Quebec is due for another elite talent one of these days. Outside of Bergeron there's no real elite goal scoring talent here.

Haven't they seen constantly declining enrollment numbers and issues with infrastructure? Hockey is becoming more a rich-kids sport than ever before. Look at how western Canada is trying to compete in development by having uber-expensive hockey schools/prep programs. The big thing Ontario has is that there are so many players and coaching in close proximity, it makes it easier (while still expensive), to have elite leagues.

Its surprising Halifax has 3 elite NHLers, but keep in mind, MacKinnon went to Shattuck for 2 years, and Crosby for one. I don't think the effect was dramatic, but it did challenge them.

 

[BoredBrandonPridham]

When you include defense it falls apart unfortunately. Andrew Macdonald and.... no one.

Andy MacDonald is from my home town in Ontario.

 

[joe dirte]

Andy MacDonald is from my home town in Ontario.

Born in nova Scotia.

 

[BoredBrandonPridham]

Born in nova Scotia.

You’re right. I had Andy in my mind. But he’s a centre.

 

[joe dirte]

You’re right. I had Andy in my mind. But he’s a centre.

Oh from the ducks. Nah I mean the terrible dman on the flyers

 

[InglewoodJack]

Haven't they seen constantly declining enrollment numbers and issues with infrastructure? Hockey is becoming more a rich-kids sport than ever before. Look at how western Canada is trying to compete in development by having uber-expensive hockey schools/prep programs. The big thing Ontario has is that there are so many players and coaching in close proximity, it makes it easier (while still expensive), to have elite leagues.

Its surprising Halifax has 3 elite NHLers, but keep in mind, MacKinnon went to Shattuck for 2 years, and Crosby for one. I don't think the effect was dramatic, but it did challenge them.

I was very up to date with prospects around 5-6 years ago and the problem with infrastructure, nepotism and corruption were big factors in the decline of Quebec's program. Not too sure if enrôlement is declining, but i would say that Quebec has per capita more lower income immigrant families in the province who wouldn't really be sending their kids to hockey, versus Ontario which is more expensive to live in, and thus attracts richer families who can play hockey (not to mention they just have millions more people there than here). Also unsure if travel plays a factor in it, but Ontario's junior teams are mostly clustered along the Windsor-Ottawa corridor whereas Quebec has teams up in Val dor, Rimouski, etc. If I'm a 16 year old on a billet in Rimouski where there's nothing to do but drink and party... that's what I'll do. Granted, that's a story as old as junior hockey itself, but I feel it's more amplified here.

I also wonder if the trickle effect of no notable players has any effect. If some nowhere town like cole Harbor can produce two of the best players in the league, you know local kids are watching. But Quebec has no one like that. I hear there's a kid from here who's a front runner for #1 pick in 2020 and it would be great to have a star inspire the next gen of Franco players.

 

[SergeConstantin74]

Best Canadian winger we’ve had in a long time.

I’ve said it before, Lafrenerie is the best forward prospect since McDavid.

There's a gap between McDavid. I still don't know how big but there is.