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[fryer98]

It was hard for me to make a Topic Title for this, so I'll explain it better here. A buddy and I got into a discussion about "if the Penguins still had all the players in the league that played for them at one time..." As in, make a team of all the players, still in the league, that played for your favorite team, who would be on it? I know, it's dumb, but we were bored at the bar. We only did 9 Fs, 4 D, and 2 Gs...based on 06-07 level of play. Feel free to adds your or comment on mine (I'm sure we missed someone or screwed up another). This is what we came up with for the Penguins, players in bold not on 06-07 roster...

Forwards
Crosby
Malkin
Recchi
Roberts
Staal
Jagr
M. Naslund
Lang
Straka

Defenseman
Gonchar
Whitney
Zubov
Rozsival

Goalie
Fleury
Hedberg

Others considered
Smolinski
Kovalev
Aubin
Thibault

[rinswun]

NJD

Elias - Gomez - Gionta
Shanahan - Parise - Guerin
Rolston - Arnott - Sullivan
Pandolfo - Madden - Sykora

Zajac
Brylin

Niedermayer - Rafalski
White - Martin
Mitchell - Van Ryn

Greene
Matvichuk


Broduer - Burke

[ajs510]

Briere - Drury - Vanek
Afinogenov - Zubrus - Connolly
Satan - Dumont - Pominville
Roy - Kotalik - Hecht

Boucher
Campbell
Tallinder
Lydman
Spacek

Miller
Hasek
Biron

[digitalmonkey]

LW - C - RW

Sergei Samsonov¹ - Saku Koivu - Michael Ryder
Darcy Tucker - Tomas Plekanec - Dainius Zubrus
Guillaume Latendresse - Chris Higgins - Mark Recchi
Andrei Kostitsyn - Mike Ribeiro - Alexei Kovalev²

Sheldon Souray - Francois Beauchamin
Andrei Markov - Mike Komisarek
Mathieu Schneider - Ron Hainsey

Tomas Vokoun
Cristobal Huet


1 The Samsonov that played with Boston not the tit that is currently with Montreal
2 The Kovalev that played with Pittsburgh not the tit that is currently with Montreal

[Whiter Sr]

LW - C - RW

Sergei Samsonov¹ - Saku Koivu - Michael Ryder
Darcy Tucker - Tomas Plekanec - Dainius Zubrus
Guillaume Latendresse - Chris Higgins - Mark Recchi
Andrei Kostitsyn - Mike Ribeiro - Alexei Kovalev²

Sheldon Souray - Francois Beauchamin
Andrei Markov - Mike Komisarek
Mathieu Schneider - Ron Hainsey

Tomas Vokoun
Cristobal Huet
1 The Samsonov that played with Boston not the tit that is currently with Montreal
2 The Kovalev that played with Pittsburgh not the tit that is currently with Montreal

Love the footnotes

[doox]

I miss footnote #2.

[Vertigo]

Brendan Shanahan - Steve Yzerman¹ - Dino Ciccarelli
Sergei Fedorov² - Igor Larionov - Vyacheslav Kozlov³
Henrik Zetterberg - Pavel Datsyuk - Tomas Holmstrom (I'm happy with this line as is)
Kirk Maltby ⁴ - Kris Draper ⁴ - Darren McCarty⁴

Vladmir Konstantinov - Nicklas Lidstrom
Paul Coffey - Chris Chelios ⁵
Mathieu Schneider - Vyacheslav Fetisov


Mike Vernon
Dominik Hasek

1 The Stevey Y before he had cyborg legs, despite the fact his heart was still huge even in the end.
2 The 93-94 Sergei Fedorov, not the tit with Columbus.
3 The Kozlov who is tearing it up now more than ever on Atlanta.
4 The grind line that actually scored on occasion, and was still tough.
5 As ageless as Chelios is, his slapshot has probably lost 30mph, so the Chi-town Cheli!

Edit: Whoops I'm dumb and I used retired players....sigh. Oh well, I still like my team.

[sinc]

So umm you made a red wings team with retired players and left out Gordie Howe? :S

[Zach6668]

.....

I think you missed the point of this thread.

[runthemover]

Selanne Thornton Clowe
Cheechoo Marleau Guerin
Whitney Michalek Sturm

Hannan Vlasic
Priessing Mclaren

Kiprusoff Nabokov

[Fenxis]

We only did 9 Fs, 4 D, and 2 Gs...based on 06-07 level of play. That's the tough part! That and only picking out 4 d-men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ottawa_Senators_players

Heatley - Spezza - Alfredsson
Hossa - Havlat - Fisher
Straka - Yashin*Demitra - Vermette Prospal

Redden - Phillips
Chara - Volchenkov

Hasek
Emery

*assuming the regular season only.

[WestcoastCanuck]

G - Roberto Luongo
- Dan Clouter

D - Mattias Ohlund + Brian McCabe
- Kevin Bieksa + Willie Mitchell
- Ed Jovanovksi + Sami Salo

F - Todd Bertuzzi + Bredan Morrison + Markus Naslund
- D. Sedin + H. Sedin + Taylor Pyatt
- Scott Walker + Mike Peca + Trevor Linden
- Andson Carter + Ryan Kesler + Matt Cooke

Notable D that didn't make the cut: Aucoin, Malik, Hedican, Allen. Notable forwards that didn't make the cut: Geoff Sanderson, Jarko Ruutu, Martin Rucinsky. The Canucks are good at producing defenceman, they really need to work on forwards.

[Fenxis]

Taylor Pyatt

Notable forwards that didn't make the cut: Geoff Sanderson, Jarko Ruutu, Martin Rucinsky. The Canucks are good at producing defenceman, they really need to work on forwards.

Pyatt is a bit of a shocker -- but I guess the alternatives aren't all that hot either.

[nell789]

I didn't know Straka played for Ottawa. I like this thread. I'd do a leaf thread but pretty much every player that has played for them and no longer does is retired

[Fenxis]

I didn't know Straka played for Ottawa. I like this thread.

Only 50 games spread over two seasons though.

* April 7, 1995- Traded by the Pittsburgh Penguins to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Troy Murray and Norm Maciver.
* January 23, 1996- Traded by the Ottawa Senators, along with Don Beaupre and Bryan Berard, to the New York Islanders in exchange for Damian Rhodes and Wade Redden.

He played fairly well while he was here from what I remember though didn't light it up as the sens were still pretty asstastic back then. Modry so played a season back then in 96 which was a bit of a surprise to me.

[digitalmonkey]

We only did 9 Fs, 4 D, and 2 Gs...based on 06-07 level of play. That's the tough part! That and only picking out 4 d-men
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ottawa_Senators_players

Heatley - Spezza - Alfredsson
Hossa - Havlat - Fisher
Straka - Yashin* - Vermette

Redden - Phillips
Chara - Volchenkov

Hasek
Emery

*assuming the regular season only.

I'd have Demitra on there.

[Fenxis]

I'd have Demitra on there.

Totally missed him, you're right.

[WestcoastCanuck]

I would do Demitra instead of Yashin. You know you don't really want Yashin on there.

[troyomac]

Give it a couple years, and I could make a team for Boston without any of their (current at the time roster).

[Fenxis]

I would do Demitra instead of Yashin. You know you don't really want Yashin on there.

True the guy was an A grade *******.. and if we consider just this season Prospal > Vermette as well.

Don Cherry mode: interesting that the Sens are doing much better this season now that they've pitched most of the Euros and have loaded up on Canucks.