1994 Olympics with NHL participation

[Megahab]

What would the Olympics teams look like if NHL players were allowed to participate in the 1994 Olympics?

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[BigT2002]

A much younger Modano would have been sweet to see

 

[NewFang]

Federov & Jagr would have fared much better. But on the other hand would have gone against Gretzky.

 

[Rometiklan]

Bure, Mogilny, and Federov would have played for Russia. Not too far removed from their world Junior championship gold at that point in their careers.

 

[Bob Kudelski]

There would have been some really tough decisions for the Canadian team that's for sure. Ignoring injuries at the time, I would have liked to see something like this for Canada:

Roberts-Lemieux-Neely
Robitaille-Gretzky-Lindros
Hawerchuk-Messier-Yzerman
Sakic-Oates-Fleury
Gilmour (Turgeon? Francis? Muller? Linden? Gartner? Recchi? Shanahan? Brind'amour?)

Bourque-Coffey
Stevens-MacInnis
Blake-Niedermayer
Murphy (there's probably someone better that I missed)

Roy
Belfour
Joseph (Potvin? Fuhr? Ranford?)

 

[TrevorLinden16]

Russia would have been sick with Bure, Mogilny, Fedorov, Kovalev, Zhamnov, Larionov, Fetisov, Yashin. All those forwards save Kovalev were within 4 points of ppg! And we all know that several of them were much higher.

 

[cooperalls14]

Neely Gretzky Lemieux
Messier Yzerman Shanahan
Robitaille Gilmour Recchi
Graves Linden Fleury
Oates/Lindros
**Francis, Sakic, Damphousse would be hard to overlook!

MacInnis Stevens
Bourque Iafrate
Coffey Desjardins
Niedermayer

Roy
Belfour
Joseph

These would be a potential lineup for the squad, though a lot would depend on how the guys were performing right in the early half of the year, which I of course can't remember!

 

[Coach Travis]

There would have been some really tough decisions for the Canadian team that's for sure. Ignoring injuries at the time, I would have liked to see something like this for Canada:

Roberts-Lemieux-Neely
Robitaille-Gretzky-Lindros
Hawerchuk-Messier-Yzerman
Sakic-Gilmour-Fleury
Turgeon (Francis? Muller? Linden? Gartner? Recchi? Shanahan? Brind'amour?)

Bourque-Chelios
Stevens-Coffey
Blake-MacInnis
Murphy (there's probably someone better that I missed)

Roy
Belfour
Joseph (Potvin? Fuhr? Ranford?)

Not so fast.

 

[The Head Crusher]

There would have been some really tough decisions for the Canadian team that's for sure. Ignoring injuries at the time, I would have liked to see something like this for Canada:

Roberts-Lemieux-Neely
Robitaille-Gretzky-Lindros
Hawerchuk-Messier-Yzerman
Sakic-Gilmour-Fleury
Turgeon (Francis? Muller? Linden? Gartner? Recchi? Shanahan? Brind'amour?)

Bourque-Chelios
Stevens-Coffey
Blake-MacInnis
Murphy (there's probably someone better that I missed)

Roy
Belfour
Joseph (Potvin? Fuhr? Ranford?)

Ummmm......when did Chelios become Canadian?

 

[littlesthobo]

Possible Canada Lines:

Shanahan - Gretzky - Neely
Robitaille - Lemieux - Recchi
Francis - Messier - Graves
Gilmour - Lindros - Fleury

HM forwards: Oates, Sakic, Turgeon, Andreychuk, Yzerman, Clark, Hawerchuk, Ciccarelli


Bourque - Coffey
Macinnis - Stevens
Blake - Niedermayer

HM: Wesley, Murphy, Duschene, Brown


Belfour
Roy
Vernon

HM: Hextall, Brodeur, Potvin, Joseph

 

[TheJudge]

My Team Canada:

Mario Lemieux* - Wayne Gretzky - Joe Sakic
Steve Yzerman - Eric Lindros - Theo Fluery
Luc Robitaille - Mark Messier - Brendan Shanahan
Gary Roberts - Doug Gilmour - Mark Recchi
Adam Oates

Ray Bourque - Al MacInnis
Rob Blake - Paul Coffey
Scott Stevens - Scott Niedermayer

Patrick Roy
Curtis Joseph
Martin Brodeur

* - if not healthy enough to go, add in Hawerchuk as 13th forward and adjust lines

 

[TrevorLinden16]

There would have been some really tough decisions for the Canadian team that's for sure. Ignoring injuries at the time, I would have liked to see something like this for Canada:

Roberts-Lemieux-Neely
Robitaille-Gretzky-Lindros
Hawerchuk-Messier-Yzerman
Sakic-Gilmour-Fleury
Turgeon (Francis? Muller? Linden? Gartner? Recchi? Shanahan? Brind'amour?)

Bourque-Chelios
Stevens-Coffey
Blake-MacInnis
Murphy (there's probably someone better that I missed)

Roy
Belfour
Joseph (Potvin? Fuhr? Ranford?)

Chelios is American. Recchi and Shanahan both had 100 point seasons that year, I would easily put Shanny in the place of Roberts and I'd find a spot for Recchi, possibly in the place of Fleury. Turgeon was very sick at the time, and Hawerchuk, while still good, was a shadow of his former self. Switch those two. You might put Adam Oates in the place of Gilmour and make Gilmour your 13th forward. Or you could move Messier to Fleury's wing spot, Fleury as 13th forward and Gilmour in a centre spot.

 

[Bob Kudelski]

I put Chelios in by mistake because I always think of things in terms of NHL 94 the videogame and if this were NHL 94, I would want Chelios on my team. lol.

I also forgot about Oates somehow.

 

[TrevorLinden16]

My Team Canada:

Mario Lemieux* - Wayne Gretzky - Joe Sakic
Steve Yzerman - Eric Lindros - Theo Fluery
Luc Robitaille - Mark Messier - Brendan Shanahan
Gary Roberts - Doug Gilmour - Mark Recchi
Adam Oates

Ray Bourque - Al MacInnis
Rob Blake - Paul Coffey
Scott Stevens - Scott Niedermayer

Patrick Roy
Curtis Joseph
Martin Brodeur

* - if not healthy enough to go, add in Hawerchuk as 13th forward and adjust lines

If we're factoring in health, I believe that Yzerman missed most of that season, and Lindros about 20 games.

 

[TheJudge]

If we're factoring in health, I believe that Yzerman missed most of that season, and Lindros about 20 games.

True, they both missed games as well. Yzerman played 58 and Lindros 65.

Lemieux only played 22 which is why I felt it was more likely he would not be able to play.

Francis and Brind'Amour would be my replacements for them if they aren't good to play at that point in the season.

Neely would be on my team as well, if health permitted.

 

[bert]

Possible Canada Lines:

Shanahan - Gretzky - Neely
Robitaille - Lemieux - Recchi
Francis - Messier - Graves
Gilmour - Lindros - Fleury

HM forwards: Oates, Sakic, Turgeon, Andreychuk, Yzerman, Clark, Hawerchuk, Ciccarelli


Bourque - Coffey
Macinnis - Stevens
Blake - Niedermayer

HM: Wesley, Murphy, Duschene, Brown


Belfour
Roy
Vernon

HM: Hextall, Brodeur, Potvin, Joseph

yzerman is on that team

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

Neely Gretzky Lemieux
Messier Yzerman Shanahan
Robitaille Gilmour Recchi
Graves Linden Fleury
Oates/Lindros
**Francis, Sakic, Damphousse would be hard to overlook!

MacInnis Stevens
Bourque Iafrate
Coffey Desjardins
Niedermayer

Roy
Belfour
Joseph

These would be a potential lineup for the squad, though a lot would depend on how the guys were performing right in the early half of the year, which I of course can't remember!

Iafrate is from Michigan.

 

[littlesthobo]

Team USA

Stevens - Roenick - Hull
Mullen - Modano - Amonte
Granato - Lafontaine - Young
Weight - Otto - Tkachuk

HM: Kevin Miller, Ed Olczyk, John Leclair, Craig Janney

Chelios - Suter
Housley - K. Hatcher
Iafrate - Norton

HM: Shawn Chambers, Derian Hatcher

Richter
Barrasso
Vanbiesbrouck

HM: John Casey

 

[ComrieFanatic]

Wow, Canada's team would have been unbeatable!

 

[Bruins4Lifer]

This was during Neely's amazing 50 in 44 year, so if was healthy enough he would have been there.

 

[Hedberg]

Sweden:

G: Tommy Salo, Tommy Soderstrom, Hakan Algotsson
D: Nicklas Lidstrom, Calle Johansson, Fredrik Olausson, Ulf Samuelsson, Kjell Samuelsson, Tommy Albelin, Magnus Svensson, Tomas Jonsson
F: Mats Sundin, Mikael Renberg, Ulf Dahlen, Michael Nylander, Johan Garpenlov, Thomas Steen, Tomas Sandstrom, Hakan Loob, Peter Forsberg, Pelle Eklund, Mats Naslund, Patrik Juhlin

Finland:
G: Jarmo Myllys, Jukka Tammi, Pasi Kuvailainen
D: Jyrki Lumme, Teppo Numminen, Marko Kiprusoff, Mika Stromberg, Hannu Virta, Timo Jutila, Janne Laukkanen, Erik Hamalainen
F: Jari Kurri, Teemu Selanne, Esa Tikkanen, Christian Ruuttu, Miika Nieminen, Ville Peltonen, Saku Koivu, Janne Ojanen, Esa Keskinen, Raimo Helminen, Mikko Makela, Marko Palo, Jere Lehtinen

 

[littlesthobo]

Team Russia:

Bure - Federov - Mogilny
Kovalev- Larionov - Makarov
Yashin - Zhamnov - Kovalenko
Kamensky - Semenov - Nemchinov

HM: A.Semak, V. Kozlov, V.Zelepukin, Y Khmylev

Fetisov - Konstantinov
Zubov - Kravchuk
Malahkov - Ulanov

HM: A.Karpovtsev, A.Gusarov, A Kasotonov

Trefilov
Shtalenkov
Khabibulin?

I have a feeling I am missing someone very good.

 

[Bob Kudelski]

Alright, edited my team. This is what I would have liked to see, personally. Final answer - lock it in:

Sakic-Lemieux-Neely
Robitaille-Gretzky-Yzerman
Shanahan-Oates-Lindros
Roberts-Messier-Fleury
Gilmour

Bourque-Coffey
Stevens-MacInnis
Blake-Murphy
Niedermayer

Roy
Joseph
Belfour

 

[Hedberg]

Slovakia:
G: Igor Murin, Roma Mega, Martin Klempa
D: Jergus Baca, Vladimir Buril, Lubomir Sekeras, Marian Smerciak, Robert Svehla, Ivan Droppa, Radoslav Hecl,
F: Peter Bondra, Zdeno Ciger, Jozef Stumpel, Peter Stastny, Robert Petrovicky, Zigmund Palffy, Miroslav Satan, Otto Hascak, Jozef Dano, Lubomir Kolnik, Branislav Janos, Rene Pucher, Vlastimil Plavucha

Czech Republic:
G: Dominik Hasek, Petr Briza, Roman Turek
D: Jiri Slegr, Richard Smehlik, Frantisek Kucera, Roman Hamrlik, Petr Svoboda, Frantisek Musil, Jiri Vykoukal, Jaroslav Modry
F: Jaromir Jagr, Robert Reichel, Martin Straka, Petr Klima, Robert Kron, Michal Pivonka, Josef Beranek, Bobby Holik, Martin Rucinsky, Vladimir Ruzicka, Jiri Kucera, Richard Zemlicka

Russia:
G: Nikolai Khabibulin, Andrei Trefilov, Mikhail Shtalenkov
D: Sergei Zubov, Vladimir Malakhov, Igor Kravchuk, Dmitri Mironov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Boris Mironov, Viatcheslav Fetisov, Alexei Gusarov
F: Sergei Fedorov, Pavel Bure, Alexei Yashin, Vyacheslav Kozlov, Alexei Zhamnov, Sergei Makarov, Valeri Kamensky, Yuri Khmylev, Valeri Zelepukin, Alexei Kovalev, Igor Larionov, Sergei Nemchinov

* Mogilny left off due to issues with Russian team

 

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Possible Canada Lines:

Shanahan - Gretzky - Neely
Robitaille - Lemieux - Recchi
Francis - Messier - Graves
Gilmour - Lindros - Fleury

HM forwards: Oates, Sakic, Turgeon, Andreychuk, Yzerman, Clark, Hawerchuk, Ciccarelli


Bourque - Coffey
Macinnis - Stevens
Blake - Niedermayer

HM: Wesley, Murphy, Duschene, Brown


Belfour
Roy
Vernon

HM: Hextall, Brodeur, Potvin, Joseph