Your Teams All-Time NA and Euro Rosters

[theicebox]

Post your team's All-Time North American and European rosters. I'll get to work on mine, and post later in the thread.

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[EagleBelfour]

That's the kind of activity you do when you can't find sleep. I'll give it a shot:

North America

Coach: Scotty Bowman
Ass. Coach: Toe Blake
Ass. Coach: Al Arbour

Bobby Hull - Wayne Gretzky - Gordie Howe (Can you imagine?)
Ted Lindsay - Mario Lemieux - Guy Lafleur
Frank Mahovlich- Jean Béliveau - Maurice Richard
Mark Messier - Howie Morenz - Cyclone Taylor
Bryan Trottier
Bobby Clarke

Bobby Orr - Doug Harvey
Eddie Shore - Raymond Bourque
Denis Potvin - Red Kelly
Larry Robinson

Jacques Plante
Patrick Roy
Terry Sawchuk

Europe

Coach: Anatoli Tarasov
Ass. Coach: Arkady Chernyshev
Ass. Coach: Jaroslav Pitner

Valeri Kharlamov - Stan Mikita - Jaromir Jagr
Anatoli Firsov - Peter Forsberg - Sergei Makarov
Sweeney Schriner - Sergei Fedorov - Jari Kurri
Alexander Ovechkin - Peter Stastny - Boris Mikhailov
Igor Larionov
Alexander Maltsev

Niklas Lidstrom - Slava Fetisov
Borje Salming - Rod Langway
Valeri Vasiliev - Alexander Ragulin
Zdeno Chara

Dominik Hasek
Vladislav Tretiak
Chuck Gardiner

 

[Derick*]

That's the kind of activity you do when you can't find sleep. I'll give it a shot:

North America

Coach: Scotty Bowman
Ass. Coach: Toe Blake
Ass. Coach: Al Arbour

Bobby Hull - Wayne Gretzky - Gordie Howe (Can you imagine?)
Ted Lindsay - Mario Lemieux - Guy Lafleur
Frank Mahovlich- Jean Béliveau - Maurice Richard
Mark Messier - Howie Morenz - Cyclone Taylor
Bryan Trottier
Bobby Clarke

Bobby Orr - Doug Harvey
Eddie Shore - Raymond Bourque
Denis Potvin - Red Kelly
Larry Robinson

Jacques Plante
Patrick Roy
Terry Sawchuk

Europe

Coach: Anatoli Tarasov
Ass. Coach: Arkady Chernyshev
Ass. Coach: Jaroslav Pitner

Valeri Kharlamov - Stan Mikita - Jaromir Jagr
Anatoli Firsov - Peter Forsberg - Sergei Makarov
Sweeney Schriner - Sergei Fedorov - Jari Kurri
Alexander Ovechkin - Peter Stastny - Boris Mikhailov
Igor Larionov
Alexander Maltsev

Niklas Lidstrom - Slava Fetisov
Borje Salming - Rod Langway
Valeri Vasiliev - Alexander Ragulin
Zdeno Chara

Dominik Hasek
Vladislav Tretiak
Chuck Gardiner

I don't know what team had all of Gretzky, Howe, Orr, Lemieux, and Hasek, but I wonder why more people aren't a fan of it.

 

[Nalyd Psycho]

Vancouver Canucks:

European:
Daniel Sedin-Henrik Sedin-Pavel Bure
Marcus Naslund-Thomas Gradin-Alex Mogilny
Petri Skirko-Patrick Sundstrom-
-Igor Larianov-

Mattias Ohlund-Jyrki Lumme
Sami Salo-Alex Edler

That's as much as I can get. Where do Euro-born, NA trained players fit?

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Vancouver Canucks:

European:
Daniel Sedin-Henrik Sedin-Pavel Bure
Marcus Naslund-Thomas Gradin-Alex Mogilny
Petri Skirko-Patrick Sundstrom-
-Igor Larianov-

Mattias Ohlund-Jyrki Lumme
Sami Salo-Alex Edler

That's as much as I can get. Where do Euro-born, NA trained players fit?

irbe, backed up by hedberg, then maybe either skudra or noronen.

EDIT: none of whom got a fair shot in vancouver.

 

[arrbez]

North America

Frank Mahovlich - Syl Apps - Gordie Drillon
Busher Jackson - Darryl Sittler - Charlie Conacher
Bob Pulford - Dave Keon - Ace Bailey
Wendel Clark - Ted Kennedy - George Armstrong

Tim Horton - King Clancy
Hap Day - Allan Stanley
Carl Brewer - Bobby Baun

Turk Broda
Johnny Bower


Europe

Alexei Ponikarovsky - Mats Sundin - Alexander Mogilny
Miroslav Fycer - Nik Antropov - Alex Steen
Sergei Berezin - Peter Ihnacak - Nikolai Borschevsky
Inge Hammarstrom - Mikhail Grabovski - Mikael Renberg

Borje Salming - Tomas Kaberle
Dmitry Yuskevich - Pavel Kubina
Danny Markov - Dmitry Mironov

Jonus Gustavsson
Vesa Toskala


Obviously a team as old as Toronto will be heavily skewed towards Canadian players. But still, I was really struggling to find Europeans who were even average NHLers for more than a year or two on the Leafs. At least Aki Berg didn't make it.

 

[FrozenJagrt]

Europe

Alexei Ponikarovsky - Mats Sundin - Alexander Mogilny
Miroslav Fycer - Nik Antropov - Alex Steen
Sergei Berezin - Peter Ihnacak - Nikolai Borschevsky
Inge Hammarstrom - Mikhail Grabovski - Mikael Renberg

Borje Salming - Tomas Kaberle
Dmitry Yuskevich - Pavel Kubina
Danny Markov - Dmitry Mironov

Jonus Gustavsson
Vesa Toskala

I'd suggest Kulemin or Hoglund over Hammarstrom. Svehla only played one year with the Leafs, but he should at least get honourable mention, he was a pretty good player.

 

[EagleBelfour]

Oh, I see now what the OP wanted

I'll try my luck later for the Montreal Canadiens.

 

[MXD]

Vancouver Canucks:

European:
Daniel Sedin-Henrik Sedin-Pavel Bure
Marcus Naslund-Thomas Gradin-Alex Mogilny
Petri Skirko-Patrick Sundstrom-
-Igor Larianov-

Mattias Ohlund-Jyrki Lumme
Sami Salo-Alex Edler

That's as much as I can get. Where do Euro-born, NA trained players fit?

You know you wanted to put Robert Nordmark on that team.

 

[WilliamRanford]

Here's my take on the Oilers:

Team North America

Anderson - Gretzky - Linseman
Smyth - Messier - Guerin
Simpson - Weight - Grier
Callighen - Horcoff - Buchberger
MacTavish Marchant

Coffey - Lowe
Huddy - Gregg
Fogolin - J. Smith
Staois

Fuhr
Ranford
Moog

Team Europe

Tikkanen - M. Hagman - Kurri
Klima - Beranek - Hemsky
Ciger - R. Nilsson - Kovalenko
Pouzar - Lindgren - Dvorak
Lindstrom

S. Smith - Niinimaa
Mironov - Siltanen
Kravchuk - Hamrlik
Grebeshkov

Salo
Markkanen
Khabibulin


If you don't accept Steve Smith (born in Scotland) on team Europe, tack on Igor Ulanov at the end of the defence corps. Most surprising on this list was the lack of European centres. Nilsson played more wing with the Oilers, so that's kind of a stretch.

I only included players that played at least 150 (actually 147) games with the Oilers.

 

[jkrx]

I'd suggest Kulemin or Hoglund over Hammarstrom. Svehla only played one year with the Leafs, but he should at least get honourable mention, he was a pretty good player.

Why? Kulemin might be the better player in the future but not right now. The team could use a Robert Reichel though.

 

[MXD]

Mahovlich - Beliveau - B. Geoffrion
Joliat - Morenz - Lafleur
Moore - Lalonde - Maurice
Gainey - Henri - Provost

X : Lemaire, Malone (gasp!). Carbonneau gets left aside, even though Gainey - Carbo - Provost would be the ultimate shutdown line that anybody could do.

Robinson - Savard
Harvey - Bouchard
Cleghorn - Reardon
Xtra : Langway - Lapointe (I just think Reardon - Cleghorne makes an extremely interesting pairing, and that Bouchard-Harvey is a natural pairing)

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Naslund - Koivu - Kovalev
Rucinsky - Plekanec - Zednik
A. Kostitsyn - Zubrus - Petrov
Sundstrom - Bulis - Dackell
X : Zholtok (5th C was Sébastien Bordeleau, until I somehow remembered about Plekanec, and then Bonk, and then Lang), Dahlin, Dackell



Hall - Markov
Svoboda - Hamrlik
Ulanov - Streit
X : Popovic, Malakhov (I just don't want him...), but he'd be there instead of Ulanov I guess.

Vokoun (...)
Halak
Huet

 

[luffis]

Vancouver Canucks:

European:
Daniel Sedin-Henrik Sedin-Pavel Bure
Marcus Naslund-Thomas Gradin-Alex Mogilny
Petri Skirko-Patrick Sundstrom-
-Igor Larianov-

Mattias Ohlund-Jyrki Lumme
Sami Salo-Alex Edler

That's as much as I can get. Where do Euro-born, NA trained players fit?

How about Ehrhoff?

 

[EagleBelfour]

Vokoun (...)
Halak
Huet

Come on, Vokoun played 20 minutes with us!

 

[jkrx]

North-America

Lindsay - Yzerman - Howe
Shanahan - Delvecchio - Abel
Lewis - Ullman - Syd Howe
Maltby - Draper - McCarty

Kelly - Provonost
Stewart - Gadsby
Quackenbush - Goldham

Sawchuck
Lumley

Europe

Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Holmström
Kozlov - Fedorov - Larionov
Franzén - Filppula - Klima
Sandström - Lang - Hossa

Lidström - Fetisov
Konstantinov - Kronwall
Olausson - Fischer

Hasek
Larsson

 

[MXD]

Come on, Vokoun played 20 minutes with us!

Yeah....
David Aebischer...

 

[steve141]

I don't think any NA team can beat the Canadiens, but this should be one of the more competitive Euro teams:

Detroit Red Wings Euro Team

Zetterberg - Fedorov - Sandstrom
Kozlov - Larionov - Hossa
Holmstrom - Datsyuk - Franzen
Klima - Lang - Nedomansky

Lidstrom - Fetisov
Salming - Samuelsson
Konstantinov - Olausson

Hasek
(Larsson, though he has not dressed yet)
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[steve141]

Europe

Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Holmström
Kozlov - Fedorov - Larionov
Franzén - Filppula - Klima
Sandström - Lang - Hossa

Lidström - Fetisov
Konstantinov - Kronwall
Olausson - Fischer

Hasek
Larsson

Quite similar to my version, though I have Nedomansky over Filppula and Salming and Samuelsson over Kronwall and Fischer.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

NJ Devils

Team North America:

Aaron Broten - Kirk Muller - John MacLean
Stephane Richer - Scott Gomez - Claude Lemieux
Zach Parise - Jason Arnott - Pat Verbeek
Jay Pandolfo - John Madden - Jamie Langenbrunner

Extras: Doug Gilmour (he only played 2 season with them, but would be the best center in franchise history if going by peak with the team), Randy McKay, Brian Gionta

Scott Stevens - Brian Rafalski
Ken Daneyko - Scott Niedermayer
Paul Martin - Bruce Driver

Extras: Colin White, Joe Cirella

Martin Brodeur
Sean Burke
Chris Terreri

Team Europe:

Patrik Elias - Peter Stastny - Petr Sykora
Valeri Zelepukin - Patrik Sundstrom - Alexander Mogilny
Sergei Brylin - Bobby Holik - Danius Zubrus
Zdeno Ciger - Sergei Nemchinov - Jan Ludvig

Extra: Alexander Semak

Slava Fetisov - Alexei Kasatonov
Tommy Albelin - Johnny Oduya
Vladimir Malakhov - Uli Hiemer

Extra: Jaroslav Modry, Oleg Tverdovsky

Johan Hedberg
Yann Denis

Stastny, Fetisov, and Kasatonov were all way past their primes when they were on the team, but what better options are there?

I'll be honest, I had to go to hockey-reference.com to find Ludvig, Hiemer, and the goalies.

And yes, Martin Brodeur's last 2 backups with a combined 8 wins between them for the team really are the best Euro options for the team in goal.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Can anyone think of a team with a better all-Euro team than all-NA?

At first I thought Buffalo with Hasek (and Zhitnik and Satan), but their forwards from the 70s + Peca proably give them a better NA team even with the downgrade from Hasek.

I guess it would pretty much have to be a team that came into existence after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

 

[WilliamRanford]

Can anyone think of a team with a better all-Euro team than all-NA?

At first I thought Buffalo with Hasek (and Zhitnik and Satan), but their forwards from the 70s + Peca proably give them a better NA team even with the downgrade from Hasek.

I guess it would pretty much have to be a team that came into existence after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

The Thrashers would be my first impression... and I've got a feeling Ottawa would be a pretty easy case as well ...

 

[MXD]

NJ Devils

Team North America:

Aaron Broten - Kirk Muller - John MacLean
Stephane Richer - Scott Gomez - Claude Lemieux
Zach Parise - Jason Arnott - Pat Verbeek
Jay Pandolfo - John Madden - Jamie Langenbrunner

Extras: Doug Gilmour (he only played 2 season with them, but would be the best center in franchise history if going by peak with the team), Randy McKay, Brian Gionta

Scott Stevens - Brian Rafalski
Ken Daneyko - Scott Niedermayer
Paul Martin - Bruce Driver

Extras: Colin White, Joe Cirella

Martin Brodeur
Sean Burke
Chris Terreri

Team Europe:

Patrik Elias - Peter Stastny - Petr Sykora
Valeri Zelepukin - Patrik Sundstrom - Alexander Mogilny
Sergei Brylin - Bobby Holik - Danius Zubrus
Zdeno Ciger - Sergei Nemchinov - Jan Ludvig

Extra: Alexander Semak

Slava Fetisov - Alexei Kasatonov
Tommy Albelin - Johnny Oduya
Vladimir Malakhov - Uli Hiemer

Extra: Jaroslav Modry, Oleg Tverdovsky

Johan Hedberg
Yann Denis

Stastny, Fetisov, and Kasatonov were all way past their primes when they were on the team, but what better options are there?

I'll be honest, I had to go to hockey-reference.com to find Ludvig, Hiemer, and the goalies.

And yes, Martin Brodeur's last 2 backups with a combined 8 wins between them for the team really are the best Euro options for the team in goal.

Ehhhh...
Yann Danis is from Quebec.

As for your NA D-Men, would Phil Russel make the Devils NA Team? He only played two seasons and a half, it was at the end of his career, but nonetheless made All Star Game... But Cirella DID play longer... I don't know...

 

[EagleBelfour]

(Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on the Thrashers)

Atlanta Euro team is definitely stronger.

ATLANTA THRASHERS

North America

Shawn McEachern - Marc Savard - Rich Peverley
Andrew Brunette - Todd White - Scott Mellanby
Donald Audette - Ray Ferraro - Colby Armstrong
Bryan Little - Jim Slater - J.P. Vigier
Tony Hrkac
Eric Boulton

Yannick Tremblay - Andy Sutton
Ron Hainsey - Greg De Vries
Chris Tamer - Garnet Exelby
Zach Bogosian

Damian Rhodes
Norm Maracle
Michael Garnett

Europe

Ilya Kovalchuk - Bobby Holik - Marian Hossa
Dany Heatley - Patrik Stefan - Vyacheslav Kozlov
Tomi Kallio - Andreas Karlsson - Nikolai Antropov
Maxim Afinogenov - Niko Kapanen - Per Svartvadet
Ronald Petrovicky
Lubos Bartecko

Tobias Enstrom - Frantisek Kaberle
Niclas Havelid - Daniel Tjarnqvist
Shane Hnidy - Alexei Zhitnik
Boris Valabik

Kari Lehtonen
Pasi Nurminen
Milan Hnilicka

 

[EagleBelfour]

MINNESOTA WILD

North America

Andrew Brunette - Pierre-Marc Bouchard - Mark Parrish
Pascal Dupuis - Brian Rolston - Alexandre Daigle
Stephane Veilleux - Eric Belanger - Wes Walz
Derek Boogaard - Jim Dowd - Darby Hendrickson
James Sheppard
Matt Johnson

Brent Burns - Willie Mitchell
Nick Schultz - Kurtis Foster
Greg Zanon - Keith Carney
Brad Bombardir

Dwayne Roloson
Manny Fernandez
Josh Harding


Europe

Pavol Demitra - Mikko Koivu - Marian Gaborik
Antti Laaksonen - Sergei Zholtok - Antti Miettinen
Richard Park - Branko Radivojevic - Owen Nolan
Martin Havlat - Roman Simicek - Sergei Krivokrasov
Maxim Sushinski
Rickard Wallin

Filip Kuba - Marek Zidlicky
Kim Johnsson - Andrei Zyuzin
Lubomir Sekeras - Martin Skoula
Petteri Nummelin

Niklas Backstrom
Anton Khudobin
(____________)


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- I thought the Europe team would have it easy against the NA with Gaborik, Backstrom and Koivu, but the lack of depth is alarming

- Havlat and Nolan's name look impressive it this lineup, but we have to remember they only played 73 and 132 games respectively

- Backstrom is probably the best goaltender in Minnesota history, but I remember Roloson and Fernandez to be quite a very tandem. After Backstrom, only Khudobin is an European born goaltender who played any minutes with the Wild

- The lack of depth at RW for the North American is very alarming (Yes, Alexandre Daigle is the best available option for that scoring line!)

All in all, I think the European side, while lacking some depth, have the better team.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Ehhhh...
Yann Danis is from Quebec.

Oops. Well then... I guess Hedberg's backup has to be this fine NHL goaltender:

http://www.hockey-reference.com/players/k/kamppha01.html

1-10-1 record with the team, .846 save %, 5.02 GAA

As for your NA D-Men, would Phil Russel make the Devils NA Team? He only played two seasons and a half, it was at the end of his career, but nonetheless made All Star Game... But Cirella DID play longer... I don't know...

Cirella was kind of one of the faces of the defense for a long time, so I felt he had to be included as an honorable mention. He did play in a single All Star game himself in 1984.