Best WORST Post 2000 Team You Can Make With Players That Played On Your Team

[GMR]

Abdelkader has to be here.

His last few seasons for sure but he was useful before that in a lesser role.

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Pittsburgh Penguins

I left so many players out.

Dan LaCouture - Kent Manderville - Shean Donovan
Steve McKenna - Matt Murley - Kelly Buchburger
Eric Tangradi - Shane Endicott - Rico Fata
Tanner Glass - Zach Sill - Kevin Porter

Hans Jonsson - Jamie Pushor
Marc Bergevin - Ian Moran
Dan Focht - Rob Scuderi

Sebastien Caron
Jean-Sebastien Aubin

 

[McGarnagle]

Dan LaCouture-Alex Zhamnov-Jeff Hoggan
Krzysztof OIiwa-Jeremy Reich-Josh Langfeld
Chris Bourque-Shawn Bates-Andrei Nazarov
Simon Gagne-Trent Whitfield-Jordan Caron

Paul Coffey-Matt Irwin
David Tanabe-Jarred Tinordi
Greg Zanon-Jason York

Malcolm Subban
Philippe Sauve

Coach: Dave Lewis

 

[JoVel]

Fredrik Norrena and I actually liked the guy

Norrena unfortunately peaked outside the NHL.

 

[KJoe88]

His last few seasons for sure but he was useful before that in a lease role.

I suppose

 

[GreeningOil]

This is way too easy as an Oilers fan.

Man, did we have some shithouse teams

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I'm going to make a roster trying to not just be 4th liners/3rd D. Maybe this is more the disappointing/underwhelming team (also as many big names as possible)

09 Bertuzzi - 23 Kadri - 11 Kotalik
19 Neal - 13 Cervenka - 07 Amonte
07 Friesen - 20 Jankowski - 18 Brouwer
21 Leivo - 07 Lundmark - 13 Jackman

10 Phaneuf - 14 Butler
16 Wideman - 09 Aucoin
07 Zyuzin - 18 Bartkowski

16 Hiller
02 Vernon

I like this attempt. OP’s parameters make sense, but I’m curious who the worst 1st liners are and whatnot. Like, for the Sabres I’m pretty sure Vesey would be up there, because I think he got legit first line minutes for a bit. Risto as a #1 defenseman is funnier to me than scrubs who didn’t make the league long-term. That said, I’m too lazy to put the roster together myself.

If anyone does a Sabres one please quote me, I’d be curious to see it. I don’t even know a lot of these names for other teams, amazed they were all around for half a season+.

 

[Ambisextrous]

Avs -

Johnny Malkin - Jeff Finger - Brad May
Kevin Porter - Brian Willsie - Chris Durno
Joe Colborne - Brandon Yip - David Van Der Gulik
Dennis Everberg - MA Cliche - Andreas Martinsen

Matt Hunwick- Nate Guenin
Shane Orr'Brien - Ryan O'Byrne
Ossi Vaananen - Rick Berry

Calvin Pickard
Jeremy Smith/Hunter Miska/Jonas Johansson/Philippe Sauve - they combined for at least 41 horrible games...

No Arnason?

 

[Fire Sweeney]

All of these players were absolute shit

Jay Pandolfo-John Emmons-Jordan Caron
Chris Bourque-Chris Vernarksy-Zach Senyshyn
Simon Gagne-Max Talbot-Jimmy Hayes
Steve Begin-Trent Whitfield-Bobby Robins
Extra:Josh Langfeld

Corey Potter-Joe Corvo
Josh Brown-Matt Irwin
Mike Mottau-Pavel Kolarik
Extra: Jarno Kultanen

Malcolm Subban
Marty Turco

 

[IWantSakicAsMyGM]

No Arnason?

He at least put up 49 points his first season in Colorado.

 

[CharasLazyWrister]

Dan LaCouture-Alex Zhamnov-Jeff Hoggan
Krzysztof OIiwa-Jeremy Reich-Josh Langfeld
Chris Bourque-Shawn Bates-Andrei Nazarov
Simon Gagne-Trent Whitfield-Jordan Caron

Paul Coffey-Matt Irwin
David Tanabe-Jarred Tinordi
Greg Zanon-Jason York

Malcolm Subban
Philippe Sauve

Coach: Dave Lewis

I want to cry this is so spot on

 

[Crossfire Hurricane]

Avs -

Johnny Malkin - Jeff Finger - Brad May
Kevin Porter - Brian Willsie - Chris Durno
Joe Colborne - Brandon Yip - David Van Der Gulik
Dennis Everberg - MA Cliche - Andreas Martinsen

Matt Hunwick- Nate Guenin
Shane Orr'Brien - Ryan O'Byrne
Ossi Vaananen - Rick Berry

Calvin Pickard
Jeremy Smith/Hunter Miska/Jonas Johansson/Philippe Sauve - they combined for at least 41 horrible games...

Finger was a defenseman. I'd put Arnason at 1C and bump Vaananen for Kyle Cumiskey.

 

[dekelikekocur]

Jonathan Ericsson - Andreas Lilja.

Hell world defensive pairing.

Nah, Lilja wasn't bad, Put Lebda with late career Ericsson and THAT is hell.

 

[Matias Maccete]

This from the coyotes would be vomitous.

 

[markymarc1215]

Glass -Malholtra - Brashear
Orr - Powe - Betts
Lemieux - Hollweg - Gauthier
Lacroix - Moore - McCarthy

Redden - Falk
Staal - Evans
Strudwick - Pilon

Dunham
Weekes

Ranger fan since 1989. Half of these people were decent players and fulfilled their roles. Some were far better than that. Malhotra, Betts, and Moore were some of the top shutdown centers in the NHL at the time. Staal was a 1st pair defenseman for several years prior to his eye injury. McCarthy exceeded expectations and had a little skill to his game which most did not expect. Strudwick exceeded expectations as a 6-7 defenseman. Orr was an elite heavyweight when that role was still valued. Dunham was terrific in the 02-03 season and almost got us to the playoffs. Weekes was a mediocre backup. I'm not sure who Evans is.

Dale Purinton HAS to be in this lineup somewhere. Also Ted Donato, Stu Bickel, Alexei Gusarov, Enver Lisin, Cody McLeod, and Thomas Pock deserve roster spots.

 

[UConn126]

Dan LaCouture-Alex Zhamnov-Jeff Hoggan
Krzysztof OIiwa-Jeremy Reich-Josh Langfeld
Chris Bourque-Shawn Bates-Andrei Nazarov
Simon Gagne-Trent Whitfield-Jordan Caron

Paul Coffey-Matt Irwin
David Tanabe-Jarred Tinordi
Greg Zanon-Jason York

Malcolm Subban
Philippe Sauve

Coach: Dave Lewis

Wow, I completely forgot about Simon Gagne on the Bruins lol.


I never thought Tinordi was that bad. He wasn't great but he was fine for a waiver depth pickup for a few games. We've had way worse defensemen in, like when we were dressing Tommy Cross for playoff games

 

[LeafalCrusader]

Leafs have had too many bad d and goalies. Of the top of my head.

Lebda Komisarek
Berg Woznewski
Marincin Finger

Toskala Raycroft Enroth Pogge Sparks take your pick

 

[God]

Canucks:

Hordichuk - Sutter - Eriksson
Sestito - Granlund - Virtanen
Glass - Schaller - Dickinson
Brashear - Vey - Bulis

Sbisa - Gudbranson
Pouliot - Brookbank
Ballard - Bartkowski

Cloutier
Potvin

Please note that 7/12 forwards and 4/6 defensemen are Benning acquisitions. Just the dumbest guy alive.

 

[syz]

The Oilers could make multiple teams.

Jean-Francois Jacques - Domenic Pittis - Liam Reddox
Patrick O'Sullivan - Marc-Antoine Pouliot - Zack Stortini
Dan LaCouture - Brian Swanson - Gilbert Brule
Ben Eager - Ryan Potulny - Iiro Pakarinen
Brad Winchester

Scott Ferguson - Ales Pisa
Cory Cross - Jason Strudwick
Alexei Semenov - Corey Potter
Theo Peckham

Ty Conklin
Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers
Ben Scrivens

Didn't make the games played cut:
Ryan Spooner
Griffin Reinhart
Robbie Schremp
Jani Rita
Danny Syvret
Colten Teubert

 

[Chainshot]

Buffalo -

Porter - Leino - Hayden
Deslauriers - Sobotka - Ryan
Pouliot- Eakin - Peters
Bjork - Reider - Flynn

Benoit - Mesjzaros
Falk - Strachan
Bogosian - Beaulieu

Hutton
Johansson

@TheDawnOfANewTage

 

[MS]

Canucks:

Hordichuk - Sutter - Eriksson
Sestito - Granlund - Virtanen
Glass - Schaller - Dickinson
Brashear - Vey - Bulis

Sbisa - Gudbranson
Pouliot - Brookbank
Ballard - Bartkowski

Cloutier
Potvin

Please note that 7/12 forwards and 4/6 defensemen are Benning acquisitions. Just the dumbest guy alive.

This would be pretty close to mine.

Bulis was a solid 3rd liner and doesn’t belong … but he was replaced by Byron Ritchie and Ritchie does.

Marc Chouinard also absolutely has to be on this roster.

Cam Barker spent a full season as a Canuck and was horrific but didn’t get to 40 games.

Also Mark Messier played for the Canucks in 2000 which is good enough for me for him to make it.

 

[Hamilton Bulldogs]

As a ducks fan, you’d probably “win” this by just bringing the current roster.

 

[God]

This would be pretty close to mine.

Bulis was a solid 3rd liner and doesn’t belong … but he was replaced by Byron Ritchie and Ritchie does.

Marc Chouinard also absolutely has to be on this roster.

Cam Barker spent a full season as a Canuck and was horrific but didn’t get to 40 games.

Also Mark Messier played for the Canucks in 2000 which is good enough for me for him to make it.

I think my memory is clouded by that strange shift where Bulis was piggybacking dudes, but yeah, Chouinard beats him for sure. I had just sorted through all players over 41 games starting from 2000-01, so that's why I missed Messier and Barker.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

Canucks:

Hordichuk - Sutter - Eriksson
Sestito - Granlund - Virtanen
Glass - Schaller - Dickinson
Brashear - Vey - Bulis

Sbisa - Gudbranson
Pouliot - Brookbank
Ballard - Bartkowski

Cloutier
Potvin

Please note that 7/12 forwards and 4/6 defensemen are Benning acquisitions. Just the dumbest guy alive.

Not bad! IMO Glass and Bulis were serviceable role players and Hordichuk and Brashear were adequate facepunchers so I would leave them out. My list:

Eriksson-Sutter-Ferland
Sestito-Granlund-Virtanen
Schaller-Vey-Dickinson
Isbister-Chouinard-Green

Sbisa-Gudbranson
Pouliot-McCarthy
Bartkowski-Miller

Cloutier
Potvin

 

[HockeyFan100]

Avs -

Johnny Malkin - Jeff Finger - Brad May
Kevin Porter - Brian Willsie - Chris Durno
Joe Colborne - Brandon Yip - David Van Der Gulik
Dennis Everberg - MA Cliche - Andreas Martinsen

Matt Hunwick- Nate Guenin
Shane Orr'Brien - Ryan O'Byrne
Ossi Vaananen - Rick Berry

Calvin Pickard
Jeremy Smith/Hunter Miska/Jonas Johansson/Philippe Sauve - they combined for at least 41 horrible games...

Pickard and Mitchell should not be on here.