Your All-NHL Team of the decade thus far?

[Dr Jan Itor]

So was Burns I think.

 

[treple13]

Lidstrom and McDavid don't belong on this team. Team of the decade is about best performers over the entire time period, not just a few standout years.

 

[The Macho King]

Dman scoring...I removed Byfuglien, he is actually third in scoring, but was a forward for several years.

Erik Karlsson - 440
Brent Burns - 350
Keith Yandle - 330
Shea Weber - 328
PK Subban - 325
Duncan Keith - 321
Kristopher Letang - 315
Alex Pietrangelo - 313
Kevin Shattenkirk - 308
Ryan Suter - 295
Victor Hedman - 289
Drew Doughty - 285
Mark Giordano - 279
Brent Seabrook - 267

Burns was as well.

 

[BlueBrunswick]

point taken on Burns

I was just looking at power plays goals for the same group - Weber's numbers are out of this world (64)... he has 23 more goals than the the number 2 on the list (41). To put that in perspective number 2 to number 10 (31) is separated by only 10 goals

Similar to Ovechkin with game winning goals - he has 55, 12 more than 2nd on the list... 2nd to 10th is only separated by 5 goals.

 

[LarKing]

I don’t know that 2011 is the best example of him belonging on this decade’s team.

I consider that a pretty controversial win. He barely won, and as a negative player. That year really seemed more about name recognition.

If I'm taking best players from this decade there's no way I'm leaving even a slightly out of prime Lidstrom off the team. He might not have been the best defenseman that year but he was very close to it. Plus minus means nothing.

 

[The Macho King]

If I'm taking best players from this decade there's no way I'm leaving even a slightly out of prime Lidstrom off the team. He might not have been the best defenseman that year but he was very close to it. Plus minus means nothing.

I think the point is that his contributions to this decade are limited to basically 2 years, and those were off-prime years.

 

[Sojourn]

If I'm taking best players from this decade there's no way I'm leaving even a slightly out of prime Lidstrom off the team. He might not have been the best defenseman that year but he was very close to it. Plus minus means nothing.

Being very close to the best defenseman for that one year is not an argument to put him on an all-decade team. tarheel nailed it. You've got two years of Lidstrom and one controversial award vs. multiple years of other defensemen. Someone like Subban has a better argument.

If Lidstrom dominated his competition in those two years, maybe he has an argument, but he didn't. Those two years do not trump more years from other defensemen.

Edit: And, with all due respect, +/- was pretty consistently an argument brought up in favor of Lidstrom throughout his career. Suddenly it doesn't matter? I'm not buying that.

 

[kmo429]

This is actually very difficult.

Ovechkin-Crosby-Kane
Benn-Malkin-St. Louis
Sedin-Backstrom- Iginla
Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Perry

So many good players I had to leave off. Tried to include players who were successful all 10 years or as many as possible, stay true to position, and did my best to balance the lines.

Could make the case for about 30-40 different forwards.

Chara-Keith
Karlsson-Weber
Doughty-Subban

Lundqvist
Price

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

Ovechkin--Crosby--Kane
Benn--Malkin--Perry
Stamkos--Backstrom--St Louis
Giroux--Tavares--Kessel

Keith--Karlsson
Suter--Weber
Hedman--Doughty

Lundqvist
Holtby

Other than OV and Benn there's no real standout LWs so I put Stamkos and Giroux there because they definitely deserve a spot.

 

[The Macho King]

This is actually very difficult.

Ovechkin-Crosby-Kane
Benn-Malkin-St. Louis
Sedin-Backstrom- Iginla
Zetterberg-Datsyuk-Perry

So many good players I had to leave off. Tried to include players who were successful all 10 years or as many as possible, stay true to position, and did my best to balance the lines.

Could make the case for about 30-40 different forwards.

Chara-Keith
Karlsson-Weber
Doughty-Subban

Lundqvist
Price

Iginla? This decade? Add in the same incredulousness for Zetterberg.

 

[kmo429]

Iginla? This decade? Add in the same incredulousness for Zetterberg.

Yeah from 2007-8 to 2016-17, the last decade, Iginla was 4th among all wingers in goals scored and 5th in points. If I misread the OP and this was only supposed to be 2010 through the present, well then no need to put much stock in my lineup.

 

[The Macho King]

Yeah from 2007-8 to 2016-17, the last decade, Iginla was 4th among all wingers in goals scored and 5th in points. If I misread the OP and this was only supposed to be 2010 through the present, well then no need to put much stock in my lineup.

Okay - that's fair. I read it as meaning 2010 on, similar to how if you said "best players this century" you wouldn't throw out Eddie Shore, but I can see your reading too.

 

[ohcomeonref]

This is an incredibly difficult list to put together so I'm not even going to try. However, I would be curious to see how lists change if centers could be moved onto the wing (as has been done in past tournaments).

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Matthews

 

[The Macho King]

This is an incredibly difficult list to put together so I'm not even going to try. However, I would be curious to see how lists change if centers could be moved onto the wing (as has been done in past tournaments).

Yeah - question is what rules. Is this post-season All-Star voting rules (as in position locked)? Or is this Hockey Canada roster making rules where you carry 10 centers for 13 spots?

 

[MrSnrub]

Weird that I'm saying this, but Daniel Sedin probably doesn't belong, even with the dearth of left wingers. Even more shocking, but Toews might be being underrated here...lots of recency bias with some of these lists. Kucherov hasn't done nearly enough in the decade to be considered for example.

Ovechkin-Crosby-Kane
Benn-Malkin-Stamkos
Kopitar-Toews-Bergeron
Hall-Tavares-Giroux
Kessel/Perry
Getzlaf/Seguin/McDavid

Karlsson-Doughty
Keith-Subban
Weber-Hedman
Burns

Price
Lundqvist
Quick

If you're happy to include 7 centres on the first four lines, then sure, guys like Kucherov wouldn't make it. I obviously tried to keep it to strict positions, otherwise Stamkos for example would absolutely be there.

 

[MrSnrub]

So we're all just cool with the only 60 goal scorer, 4 time top 2 in goals, 4 time top 5 in points, superstar being left off of the team in favor of guys like Tarasenko, Benn, and Hall? Just trying to get a reading here.

Okay, sorry to upset you.