Best Lineup But Only 1 Player Per Team

[HighNote]

McDavid - Crosby - Bedard - The 3 Generations line
Marner - Barkov - Stone - The Great Wall line
Ovechkin - Kopitar - Marchand - We're Not Dead Yet line
Kaprizov - Keller - Kucherov - Uhhh
Rempe

Hughes - Hughes - The Hughes Brothers
Fleury - Fleury - The McFleury pairing
Johnson - Johnson - A Family Pairing

Oettinger
Sorokin
Ullmark

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

I’d like to see some cap compliant lineups.
If I were posting from work I’d totally make one

Connor - Hughes - Marchenko
Keller - Celebrini - Konecny
Lehkonen - Karlsson - Tuch
Holloway - Evans - Janmark

Heiskanen - Faber
Slavin - Dobson
Forsling - Carlo

Saros
Lindgren

~$157k in cap space.

Only used 2 ELC, 1 forward and 1 defenseman.

 

[Mike C]

Kaprizov-Mcdavid-Nylander
Connor-Mackinnon-Kucherov
B.Tkachuk-Eichel-Pastanak
Panarin-Barkov-crosby
Wilson

Hughes-weegar
Werenski-Slavin
Dahlin-Heiskanen
Sieder

Sorokin/Saros

Not bad. Good to see a list without Fox. Way to much respect for him out here

 

[VILARGOD]

The Kempe recognition in this thread pleases me. Truly a great player that does it all.

 

[Our Lady Peace]

Kaprizov - McDavid - Nylander
B. Tkachuk - J. Hughes - Pastrnak
Forsberg - Eichel - Connor
Kempe - Barkov - Thomas
Crosby

Heiskanen - Makar
Q. Hughes - Seider
Werenski - Dobson
Slavin

Vasilevskiy
Shesterkin
Wolf

 

[Breakfast of Champs]

Poor Mackinnon. He’s Esposito to Makar’s Orr.

Not at all, it just so happens that Makar is the best Dman in the world so you have to pass up on the 2nd best player in the world to take him.

There's McDavid to make up for no Mackinnon, but there is nobody on the back end like Makar. Mackinnon has been the better player for the last few years though. I'm not sure Esposito was ever considered better than Orr when he was in his prime like Makar is

 

[NotCommitted]

McDavid EDM - Barkov FLA - Kaprizov MIN
Kucherov TBL - Matthews TOR - Pastrnak BOS
Lowry WPG - Staal CAR - Stone VGK
J. Hughes NJD - Crosby PIT - Kopitar LAK
B. Tkachuk OTT

Q. Hughes VAN - Makar COL
Werenski CBJ - Fox NYR
Heiskanen DAL - Dobson NYI
Sergachev UTA

Saros NSH
Shesterkin NYR (oops NYR duplicate, just pick who you think is the best starter available)
Dostal ANA


This is not the "best possible players" and tries to take into account there's not enough minutes in the game so that everyone have 20min TOI, also tries to have enough balance in the forward roster so that mixing up lines is possible if these don't work out for whatever reason.

Barkov is the archetype of a #1C who can do it all, in this lineup he gets to play more offensive minutes and is the defensive backbone of that first line. All 3 can both make and finish plays.

2nd line is "1B" which is fed offensive minutes as much as possible - not that they need sheltering per se but they were put together for their offense and Matthews is the only guy who can really take draws.

3rd line is a shutdown line letting Lowry and Staal do what they have been doing for years with great success and relying on Stone to provide offense.

4th line is a 4th line in name only. J. Hughes provides some youthful energy for the old men. Depending on game situation / opponent / how lines are working, could move Barkov down to the "4th" to create the 4 Selkes shutdown line, making the 1st J.Hughes - McDavid - Kaprizov. Crosby, Barkov and Kopitar in the same line seems unfair though.

Started to run out of imagination with the defense and would've loved a Forsling type there and maybe a Lindell in the 3rd pair but it is what it is. Dobson is the sort of random pick here, trying to go for a more "defensive" D-man.

Goalies are goalies, Saros has been very dependable and while Shersterkin is not having a great season he has proven to be arguably the best playoff goalie of recent years and Dostal was a pretty random pick of who was available.

Honorable mentions MacKinnon, Hellebuyck, Kyle Connor, Josi and bunch of others, this was difficult and I spent way too much time on it.

 

[RRhoads]

Goalies are goalies, Saros has been very dependable and while Shersterkin is not having a great season he has proven to be arguably the best playoff goalie of recent years and Dostal was a pretty random pick of who was available.

You have to choose between Fox and Shesterkin though.

 

[Coffee]

You have to choose between Fox and Shesterkin though.

Hey, man. At the end of the day, goalies are goalies. Like he said

 

[NotCommitted]

You have to choose between Fox and Shesterkin though.

Ugh, I'm not getting back to that, bring your own goalie

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Would this be able to beat a Monstars alien team?

Mack and Drai will do a cameo, as evil twins jeopardizing the planet as a pity plot for revenge.

 

[Mitch nylander]

I’d like to see some cap compliant lineups.
If I were posting from work I’d totally make one

Cap Compliant Lineup is fun - to make it a little more challenging, I didn't use any ELCs.

Aleksei Protas (3.375) - Connor Mcdavid (12.5) - Kirill Marchenko (3.85)
Brad Marchand (6.125) - Sidney Crosby (8.7) - Alex Tuch (4.75)
Bobby McMann (1.35) - Matt Duchene (3) - Fabian Zetterlund (1.45)
Eric Robinson (950k) - Adam Lowry (3.25) - Kiefer Sherwood (1.5)

Victor Hedman (7.875) - Cale Makar (9)
Gustav Forsling (5.675) - Noah Dobson (4)
Jacob Middleton (2.45) - Jordan Spence (1.5)

Igor Shesterkin (5.667M)
Dustin Wolf (850k)

TOTAL CAP - 87.891M out of 88M
Teams Not Used: Anaheim, Chicago, Detroit, Montreal, Nashville, Philadelphia, Seattle, St Louis, Utah, Vegas

 

[Siignal]

i’ll go arguably 2nd best player per team

B.Tkachuk Mackinnon M.Tkachuk
Connor Drasaitl Necas
Petterson Hischier Marner
Michkov Malkin Laine

Dobson Seider
Theodore Mcavoy
Doughty Faber

Vasilevsky
Shesterkin

Flames justifiably mudded by this entire thread (although tbh Wolf has a case of Vasi right now, and you go Point instead of Hischier/Malkin)

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Ovechkin-Draisaitl-Marner
Kaprizov-MacKinnon-Rantanen
Connor-J. Hughes-Pastrnak
Forsberg-Kopitar-Konecny

Werenski-Seider
Hedman-Dahlin
Walman-Pietrangelo

Oettinger
Wolf

 

[NVious]

JT Miller-Kravtsov

Hutson

That's all I need (Toews as my coach)

 

[ismelofhockey]

Kaprizov - McDavid - MacKinnon
Hughes - Crosby - Kucherov
Stone - Barkov - Rantanen
B.Tkachuk - Thompson - Konecny
Buchnevitch (as a bit of a jack of all trades)

Hughes - Heiskanen
Josi - McAvoy
Werenski - Weegar
Seider

Hellebuyck
Shesterkin
Sorokin

 

[brentashton]

Drai MacK Pasta
Willy Sid TW43
Laine Barkov Aho
Kopi TThompson Kiril

Fox DougiHam
Hughes Seider
Josi Heis
QH

Vasi, Helly

Your the guy who forgot to send in a vote for Mariano Rivera, by the look of that forward group.

 

[Dead Coyote]

I think this exercise is more fun with prospects! Maximum 30 NHL game.

Danila Yurov (MIN) - Dalibor Dvorsky (STL) - Ivan Demidov (MTL)
Gabe Perreault (NYR) - Berkley Catton (SEA) - Ryan Leonard (WSH)
Danil But (UTA) - Cayden Lindstrom (CBJ) - Beckett Sennecke (ANA)
Isak Rosen (BUF) - Brad Lambert (WPG) - Easton Cowan (TOR)
Matthew Savoie (EDM)

Alexander Nikishin (CAR) - Artem Levshunov (CHI)
Anton Silayev (NJ) - Axel Sandin Pelikka (DET)
Lian Bichsel (DAL) - Zayne Parekh (CGY)
Carter Yakemchuk (OTT)

Yaroslav Askarov (SJ)
Igor Nabokov (COL)
Joel Blomqvist (PIT)

Probably the only one where a SEA player will show up, so yippee for that

 

[gtrower]

Lmfao that Barkov - Crosby - Stone line would be just plain stupid to watch.

Nobody is scoring on it ever.

Crosby leads all forwards in even strength goals against this season. He leads all forwards in even strength goals against the last 2 seasons. He leads all forwards in even strength goals against the last 3 seasons.