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Post your team's All-Time North American and European rosters. I'll get to work on mine, and post later in the thread.
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
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?
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
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?
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.
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?
Come on, Vokoun played 20 minutes with us!
Europe
Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Holmström
Kozlov - Fedorov - Larionov
Franzén - Filppula - Klima
Sandström - Lang - Hossa
Lidström - Fetisov
Konstantinov - Kronwall
Olausson - Fischer
Hasek
Larsson
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.
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...