Canada all time team

[Gerulaitis]

I didn’t even remember the goal in 1991, but that’s not where his impact came anyhow. He was physically dominant.

No Canadian Olympic team should be judged for anything in the era that saw amateurs bs pros, and as far as 1998 goes, Canada built a very flawed team with tunnel vision focused solely on beating the Americans.

Well, I do remember that game. Canada won either 4-0 or 4-1.

Lindros always seemed to be a little bit overrated. A talented physical center with too much hype.

Look, I couldn't even find a spot for Joe Sakic in my team Canada. And Sakic is better than Lindros. Canada produced a lot of great forwards over the last 100 years. Lindros can't crack the top 13 of them

 

[Michael Farkas]

In a real team scenario,.he could be a 4th liner mauler maybe. But not an actual top 12 of all time probably. Wasn't smart enough.

 

[The Panther]

Look, I couldn't even find a spot for Joe Sakic in my team Canada. And Sakic is better than Lindros. Canada produced a lot of great forwards over the last 100 years. Lindros can't crack the top 13 of them

Sakic is better than Lindros is the career and achievements sense, but he wasn't better than Lindros at each's best. Lindros from 1993-94 through 1998-99 was the 2nd (Lemieux) or 3rd (Jagr) best forward on earth, and that's for a six-year period (and Lemieux didn't play for three of those six seasons). I can't say that Sakic was the 2nd-best forward on earth for any six-year stretch.

That said, if I had to pick only one of them for a Team Canada (each being fully healthy), it's a hard choice. Would depend on what the team needs. Sakic's skill-set was really good for international hockey and he was one of the great clutch players.

 

[The Panther]

M. Lemieux - Gretzky - Crosby
Hull Sr. - McDavid - Lafleur
MacKinnon - Lindros - Howe
Messier - Clarke - Trottier
Keon - Bergeron

Orr - Harvey
Bourque - Pronger
Potvin - Robinson
Shore

Roy
Dryden
Brodeur

I basically like this team, but for goaltenders I would have Plante and Roy, or Plante and Brodeur.

Other than that, I like your team. Not sure I would have Keon on here, even as a sub. Cutting Beliveau seems kind of impossible, though. Is Crosby or Lafleur really better than him? I don't know. I'd like Bossy to be there, too. But it's tough.

Laughing at the Messier, Clarke, Trottier line... We'd have to hope the games weren't officiated at today's standards...