Your best possible roster to host an Alumni Game on March 4 against the TML

[Chukcha]

just for fun. thoughts on 25-men roster?

Robert Lang - Adam Oates - Peter Bondra
Richard Zednik - Andrei Nikolishin - Michael Nylander
Chris Simon - Sergei Fedorov - Andrew Brunette
Steve Konowalchuck - Jeff Halpern - Dainius Zubrus
Joe Juneau, Michal Pivonka

Calle Johansson - Sergei Gonchar
Scott Stevens - Phil Housley
Sylvain Cote - Brendan Witt
Kevin Hatcher - Mark Tinordi

Olaf Kolzig
Jose Theodore
Byron Dafoe

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[hockeykicker]

what about mike gartner or rod langway?

 

[Chukcha]

what about mike gartner or rod langway?

aren't they very old? i mean the best possible roster to win the game.

 

[Hivemind]

aren't they very old? i mean the best possible roster to win the game.

If that's your logic, then the first two calls need to be to Brooks Laich and Alexander Semin.

 

[CapitalsCupReality]

Gartner could probably still outskate Orpik...just sayin...

 

[Corby78]

I would also go grab guys like Erat/Erksin and shoot I would tell Fehr to make it official and come join the alumni team.

 

[Hivemind]

I would also go grab guys like Erat/Erksin and shoot I would tell Fehr to make it official and come join the alumni team.

Erat is still playing in the Czech league.



Ultimately, the point of an alumni game isn't to win. It's to give the fans a chance to see their childhood favorites again. Pick the best names who are willing to play, don't pick an optimized roster of players who retired between 2008 and 2016.

 

[Corby78]

Erat is still playing in the Czech league.



Ultimately, the point of an alumni game isn't to win. It's to give the fans a chance to see their childhood favorites again. Pick the best names who are willing to play, don't pick an optimized roster of players who retired between 2008 and 2016.

First line: "just for fun"

Thanks for the update on Erat

 

[Chukcha]

Ultimately, the point of an alumni game isn't to win. It's to give the fans a chance to see their childhood favorites again. Pick the best names who are willing to play, don't pick an optimized roster of players who retired between 2008 and 2016.

i know but watching barely skating Wayne Gretzky in a recent alumni game was painful...