Name your all-time team comprised of players who played for just one franchise

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Players have to had played for just one NHL franchise (relocated franchises count as one). You can select current players but try to reserve responses to players who have played 10+ NHL seasons.

• One Goalie
• Three Forwards
• Two Defensemen

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[nik jr]

LW is not easy. hull played in WHA, lindsay played with chicago, toe blake started with the maroons, busher jackson ended in boston, bucyk started with DRW, moore ended in STL, doug bentley played for NYR, abel ended in chicago, etc.


joliat--m lemieux--m richard
potvin--lidstrom
brodeur


maybe delvecchio, barber, cashman

 

[reckoning]

G: Ken Dryden

D: Niklas Lidstrom, Denis Potvin

C: Mario Lemieux

RW: Maurice Richard

LW: Aurel Joliat (tough to find one)

 

[Stephen]

Brodeur

Potvin-Lidstrom

Sakic-Lemieux-Richard

 

[nik jr]

G: Ken Dryden

D: Niklas Lidstrom, Denis Potvin

C: Mario Lemieux

RW: Maurice Richard

LW: Aurel Joliat (tough to find one)

went with brodeur b/c i like his puck-moving ability, especially in conjunction with that of the d-men.

 

[Passchendaele]

Yzerman - Lemieux - Bossy

Lidstrom - Potvin

Brodeur

 

[ck26]

I'll go off the board a bit and pick Jean Beliveau to center Mike Bossy and an out-of-position Bobby Clarke ... balanced line with lots of everything. Dryden, Lidstrom and Potvin in the back.

 

[MyDogSparty]

Some names to consider...

forwards
Alfredsson, Daniel
Apps, Syl
Armstrong, George
Beliveau, Jean
Bossy, Mike
Bouchard, Emile
Cashman, Wayne
Clarke, Bobby
Cook, Bill
Cournoyer, Yvan
Crosby, Sidney
Delvecchio, Alex
Doan, Shane
Gainey, Bob
Gilbert, Rod
Iginla, Jerome
Joliat, Aurel
Kennedy, Ted
Koivu, Saku
Lecavalier, Vincent
Lemieux, Mario
Mikita, Stan
Modano, Mike
Nystrom, Bob
O'Reilly, Terry
Perreault, Gil
Provost, Claude
Ramsay, Craig
Richard, Henri
Richard, Maurice
Sakic, Joe
Schmidt, Milt
Smyl, Stan
Smyth, Ryan
Spezza, Jason
Steen, Thomas
Taylor, Dave
Yzerman, Steve

defensemen
Clapper, Dit
Daneyko, Ken
Lidstrom, Nicklas
Murray, Bob
Phaneuf, Dion
Potvin, Denis

goalies
Brodeur, Martin
Dryden, Ken
Lundqvist, Henrik
Miller, Ryan
Richter, Mike
Tretiak, Vladislav ?

...maybe pnep can chime in with a complete list of players who have played 10+ years in the NHL and spent their entire career with one franchise.

 

[MyDogSparty]

Let's hear it for the select few who made it to 20 seasons with one franchise...

Delvecchio, Alex (24)
Mikita, Stan (22)
Yzerman, Steve (22)
Armstrong, George (21)
Beliveau, Jean (20)
Richard, Henri (20)
Clapper, Dit (20)
Daneyko, Ken (20)
==================
Sakic, Joe (19) (come one Joe, at least 1 more season!)
Modano, Mike (18)

 

[MyDogSparty]

Players have to had played for just one NHL franchise (relocated franchises count as one). You can select current players but try to reserve responses to players who have played 10+ NHL seasons.

• One Goalie
• Three Forwards
• Two Defensemen

Could we add one extra attacker in case we have to pull the goalie?

 

[MiamiScreamingEagles]

Could we add one extra attacker in case we have to pull the goalie?

After a conference call to myself, sure. It is within the bylaws.

 

[Shaun_W_W]

After a conference call to myself, sure. It is within the bylaws.

hahaha

 

[MyDogSparty]

After a conference call to myself, sure. It is within the bylaws.

That's great.


OK, here's my favorites...

f: Sakic
f: Beliveau
f: Yzerman
d: Potvin
d: Lidstrom
g: Brodeur
x: Clarke

...plus they were all great captains. Someday, I hope to add Toews to that team.

 

[A1]

Some names to consider...

forwards
Alfredsson, Daniel
Apps, Syl
Armstrong, George
Beliveau, Jean
Bossy, Mike
Bouchard, Emile
Cashman, Wayne
Clarke, Bobby
Cook, Bill
Cournoyer, Yvan
Crosby, Sidney
Delvecchio, Alex
Doan, Shane
Gainey, Bob
Gilbert, Rod
Iginla, Jerome
Joliat, Aurel
Kennedy, Ted
Koivu, Saku
Lecavalier, Vincent
Lemieux, Mario
Mikita, Stan
Modano, Mike
Nystrom, Bob
O'Reilly, Terry
Perreault, Gil
Provost, Claude
Ramsay, Craig
Richard, Henri
Richard, Maurice
Sakic, Joe
Schmidt, Milt
Smyl, Stan
Smyth, Ryan
Spezza, Jason
Steen, Thomas
Taylor, Dave
Yzerman, Steve

defensemen
Clapper, Dit
Daneyko, Ken
Lidstrom, Nicklas
Murray, Bob
Phaneuf, Dion
Potvin, Denis

goalies
Brodeur, Martin
Dryden, Ken
Lundqvist, Henrik
Miller, Ryan
Richter, Mike
Tretiak, Vladislav ?

...maybe pnep can chime in with a complete list of players who have played 10+ years in the NHL and spent their entire career with one franchise.

Alot of guys listed there haven't played 10+ seasons, Ryan Smyth has played for 3 different teams in the last 2 years.

 

[MyDogSparty]

Alot of guys listed there haven't played 10+ seasons, Ryan Smyth has played for 3 different teams in the last 2 years.

Thanks for the Smyth catch. You're right he shouldn't be there. This is just a hand kept list from a spreadsheet I put together. It's not a query from a database like pnep could provide. I'll update my list though. I really have come to appreciate players in ANY sport who have managed to stick with one franchise their entire career. I realize that some on my list haven't played for 10 years either but it's wishful thinking on my part that they're able to work through contracts, etc. to become eligible for the all-time list.

 

[Pensfan86]

I figure Mike Sillinger, Jim Dowd, and Kevin Miller up front, with Phil Housley and Paul Coffey on D. Throw Sean Burke in net too.


Oh wait...

 

[tony d]

LW: Yzerman
C: Lemieux
RW: Clarke
D: Lidstrom
D: Potvin
G: Brodeur

X: Sakic

 

[Koivu84*]

Some names to consider...

forwards
Alfredsson, Daniel
Apps, Syl
Armstrong, George
Beliveau, Jean
Bossy, Mike
Bouchard, Emile
Cashman, Wayne
Clarke, Bobby
Cook, Bill
Cournoyer, Yvan
Crosby, Sidney
Delvecchio, Alex
Doan, Shane
Gainey, Bob
Gilbert, Rod
Iginla, Jerome
Joliat, Aurel
Kennedy, Ted
Koivu, Saku
Lecavalier, Vincent
Lemieux, Mario
Mikita, Stan
Modano, Mike
Nystrom, Bob
O'Reilly, Terry
Perreault, Gil
Provost, Claude
Ramsay, Craig
Richard, Henri
Richard, Maurice
Sakic, Joe
Schmidt, Milt
Smyl, Stan
Smyth, Ryan
Spezza, Jason
Steen, Thomas
Taylor, Dave
Yzerman, Steve

defensemen
Clapper, Dit
Daneyko, Ken
Lidstrom, Nicklas
Murray, Bob
Phaneuf, Dion
Potvin, Denis

goalies
Brodeur, Martin
Dryden, Ken
Lundqvist, Henrik
Miller, Ryan
Richter, Mike
Tretiak, Vladislav ?

...maybe pnep can chime in with a complete list of players who have played 10+ years in the NHL and spent their entire career with one franchise.

 

[Randall Graves*]

Bobby Clarke-Mario Lemieux-Jean Believou
Lidstrom-Potvin
Broduer
extra: Steve Yzerman


Went with Clarke over Bossy and others because of the edge he is a perfect compliment to Lemieux and Believou

and damn Eddie Shore for playing 10 games for the New York Americans

 

[Crosbyfan]

Bobby Clarke-Mario Lemieux-Jean Believou
Lidstrom-Potvin
Broduer
extra: Steve Yzerman


Went with Clarke over Bossy and others because of the edge he is a perfect compliment to Lemieux and Believou

and damn Eddie Shore for playing 10 games for the New York Americans:cry:

Orr didn't play many more for Chicago.

 

[Randall Graves*]

Orr didn't play many more for Chicago.

Yeah that's what makes this hard because nobody remembers Orr as a Hawk or Shore as a New York American...but they were.

 

[albertGQ]

The Toronto media will probably want to add Mats Sundin to the list

 

[MyDogSparty]

The Toronto media will probably want to add Mats Sundin to the list

Regardless of what he does this coming season he's already played for both Quebec and Toronto so why would the Toronto media campaign to add Sundin to the list?

 

[MXD]

The Toronto media will probably want to add Mats Sundin to the list

If so, the Toronto media is damn ignorant, and that has nothing to do with the game of Sundin...

I mean, they lost Wendel Clark at some point of his career, right?

G : Dryden
D : Lidstrom and Potvin
F : Joliat, Lemieux and Richard

The only debate possible is IMO between Dryden and Brodeur. Richard/Bossy ain't that far from each other, but they aren't exactly close either. I really have a problem with anybody ranking Clapper ahead of somebody in this list. Considering him superior to Lidstrom or Potvin is already far-fetched (IMO)... Considering like 9 years of Clapper with bad competition is better than any of Potvin and Lidstrom is pure indecency.

 

[Dark Shadows]

Let's go international and put Kharlamov on LW

He played his whole career for CSKA Moscow