I’ll take a stab at compiling a roster, where players are at their career height, not necessarily at the level at which they played with the Penguins.
Robitaille-Lemieux-Jágr
Malkin-Crosby-Iginla
Stevens-Francis-Hossa
Kovalev/Näslund-Trottier-Tocchet/Recchi
*It’s incredible how many options there were for consideration here. In addition to those pencilled in, I seriously mulled over Kessel, Lang, Sullivan, Guerin, Kunitz, Roberts, Straka, Kehoe, Mullen, Pronovost, Apps and Leclair. I reckon I forgot a few.*
Gonchar-Coffey
Zubov-Murphy
Samuelsson-Letang
Carlyle
Fleury
Barrasso
Murray
That’s an ABSURDLY talented and diverse forward group. The defense corps is pretty much tailor-made to get them the puck, and any defensive shortcomings will pale in comparison to the offense they can maintain. There are a bunch of fiery competitors who can hold their own on the defensive side of things fairly well in there, too. The goaltending will either be on and dominant or not and pretty atrocious, but I think this team could outscore and definitely outpossess pretty much anyone.