Edmonton Quarter-Century MOC Roster

[GrumpyKoala]

The exercise is simple,
The NHL is currently running a thing where they release two 6 man starting roster (A and B) of every team once per day.

List Of NHL Quarter-Century Teams

The NHL is rolling out Quarter-Century All-Star Teams for all of its franchises. Read more at Pro Hockey Rumors.

www.prohockeyrumors.com

Throughout the middle of the season, the NHL is unveiling Quarter-Century Teams for all 32 franchises, plus the now-defunct Coyotes. Each club is represented by a first and second team of six players – three forwards, two defensemen and one goalie – who played for the franchise after Jan. 1, 2000. The first and second teams were selected by broadcasters and national, local, and NHL.com writers who covered the respective teams and some former players. The six players voted to each First Team will be on the ballot for the NHL All-Quarter-Century Team and will be chosen via a fan vote starting in February.

So ahead of time, What would be your picks?



For fun, here mine: D & F In no particular order

First team:
F Connor McDavid
F Ryan Nugent Hopkins
F Leon Draisaitl
D Chris Pronger
D Mathias Ekholm
G Bill Ranford (qualify by a thread, but he does)

Second team:
F Taylor Hall
F Doug Weight
F Jordan Eberle
D Darnell Nurse
D Adam Larsson
G Dwayne Roloson

HM: Ryan Smith, Ales Hemsky, Craig Simpson, Jordan Eberle, Sam Gagnier.

Edited for dates inconsistency.

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[La Bamba]

A lot of guys on this list didn’t play for the Oilers after 2000

C: McDavid
LW: Hall
RW: Hyman
LD: Pronger
RD: Bouchard
G: Roloson

C: Draisaitl
LW: Smyth
RW: Eberle
LD: Ekholm
RD: Visnovsky (I think he played the right side as an Oiler?)
G: Dubnyk

I know I’m gonna be missing someone painfully obvious

Edit: I missed Adam Larsson and Cam Talbot lol. They were great in 16/17. I would probably swap these guys in for Visnovsky and Dubnyk.

 

[Mcnofool6110]

McDavid
Draisaitl
Hyman
Nurse
Bouchard
Roloson

Smyth
Hall
Nugent-Hopkins
Ekholm
Pronger
Probably Skinner? Maybe Dubnyk, maybe Talbot, less likely Salo or Smith

 

[Fourier]

1st team:

F McDavid
F Draisaitl
F Hall
D Pronger
D Ekholm
G Rolanson

2nd Team
F Weight
F Hemesky
F Nuge (could be any of Hyman or Smyth)
D Bouchard
D Nurse
G Smith

HM Smyth, Hyman, Eberle, Niinima

 

[Gunnersaurus Rex]

First Team:
F - Connor McDavid
F - Leon Draisaitl
F - Ryan Smyth
D - Jason Smith
D - Chris Pronger
G - Dwayne Roloson

2nd Team:
F - Ales Hemsky
F - Doug Weight
F - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
D - Mattias Ekholm
D - Darnell Nurse
G - Cam Talbot

 

[Tarus]

1st team
C - Mcdavid
RW - Hemsky
LW - Hall
D - Pronger, Ekholm
G - Roloson

2nd team
C - Drai
RW - Hyman
LW - Smyth
D - Bouchard, Nurse
G - Dubnyk(damn, the pickings are slim, Tommy Salo is still the win leader over the last 25 years)

Honorable mentions - Weight(1 season, not getting in over Mcdavid/Drai), Eberle(productive, but surpassed by others), Smith(arguably the best goaltender on the list, but he never had any of his great seasons in Edmonton and played too many seasons for Edmonton's rivals), Guerin(only 21 games, but he was at his peak and a dynamic player when they traded him)

-Hyman is not really a full time RW, but hard to argue with a 50+ goal season while playing with Mcdavid at that position.
-Hate putting Pronger on this list, but he's the best defenseman to play on this team over the last 25 years, even if it was only for 1 season

 

[K1984]

First crack purely going off memory which means I probably am missing a few obvious ones:

Hall - McDavid - Hyman
RNH - Draisaitl - Hemsky
Smyth - Weight - Guerin
Marchant - Horcoff - Eberle

Pronger - Bouchard
Ekholm - Smith
Klefbom - Souray

Roloson
Salo

 

[Stoneman89]

What, no honorable mentions to any of the guys that were treated "horribly" by the organization like Yak, Omark, Schremp and Pulji?

 

[Chet Manley]

Smyth or Hyman - McDavid - Hemsky would probably be fantastic. Hemsky and McDavid both play a bit of a hybrid of wing and centre. Or Hemsky with Draisaitl.... instead of people shouting "shoot" it would be doodle all you want until Draisaitl is ready to bury one. I wasn't a big Hemsky fan because he required a unicorn centre that was both goal first and cover defensively but McDavid and Drai are Rocket Richard Trophy winners.

 

[Jumptheshark]

The exercise is simple,
The NHL is currently running a thing where they release two 6 man starting roster (A and B) of every team once per day.

List Of NHL Quarter-Century Teams

The NHL is rolling out Quarter-Century All-Star Teams for all of its franchises. Read more at Pro Hockey Rumors.

www.prohockeyrumors.com

Throughout the middle of the season, the NHL is unveiling Quarter-Century Teams for all 32 franchises, plus the now-defunct Coyotes. Each club is represented by a first and second team of six players – three forwards, two defensemen and one goalie – who played for the franchise after Jan. 1, 2000. The first and second teams were selected by broadcasters and national, local, and NHL.com writers who covered the respective teams and some former players. The six players voted to each First Team will be on the ballot for the NHL All-Quarter-Century Team and will be chosen via a fan vote starting in February.

So ahead of time, What would be your picks?



For fun, here mine: D & F In no particular order

First team:
F Connor McDavid
F Mark Messier--left oilers 1990
F Leon Draisaitl
D Chris Pronger
D Charlie Huddy---Retrired 97
G Bill Ranford (qualify by a thread, but he does)

Second team:
F Ryan Nugent-Hopkins
F Doug Weight
F Glenn Anderson--retired before turn of the century
D Mathias Ekholm
D Adam Larsson
G Dwayne Roloson

HM: Ryan Smith, Ales Hemsky, Craig Simpson, Jordan Eberle, Craig Mctavish, Taylor Hall, Sam Gagnier, Darnell Nurse.

BTW

Using the dates provided..Gretzky would stil qualify--how can you have Anderson and not Gretz when Anderson retired first

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

BTW

Using the dates provided..Gretzky would stil qualify--how can you have Anderson and not Gretz when Anderson retired first

Someone's going to have to explain to me why Messier and/or Gretzky qualify with the bolded criteria in the OP

 

[Jumptheshark]

Someone's going to have to explain to me why Messier and/or Gretzky qualify with the bolded criteria in the OP

and Huddy and Anderson

 

[GrumpyKoala]

BTW

Using the dates provided..Gretzky would stil qualify--how can you have Anderson and not Gretz when Anderson retired first

The rules are, if I am not mistaken, played for the franchise after Jan 1, 2000.

I bolded that in the first post, because otherwise Kurri would also be included in my list.

Anderson, was an Oilers for longer than Gretz, but I definitely screwed up the date as his come back with the team is 3 year too soon

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

The rules are, if I am not mistaken, played for the franchise after Jan 1, 2000.

I bolded that in the first post, because otherwise Kurri would also be included in my list

So what leads you to believe that Mark Messier, Charlie Huddy and Bill Ranford played for the franchise after Jan 1, 2000?

 

[GrumpyKoala]

So what leads you to believe that Mark Messier, Charlie Huddy and Bill Ranford played for the franchise after Jan 1, 2000

I screwed up thinking 1990 as the cut off date, but Bill Randford did play, barely after 2000, in his come back.

Thanks for pointing out, I'll edit my list

 

[Jumptheshark]

The rules are, if I am not mistaken, played for the franchise after Jan 1, 2000.

I bolded that in the first post, because otherwise Kurri would also be included in my list.

Anderson, was an Oilers for longer than Gretz, but I definitely screwed up the date as his come back with the team is 3 year too soon

Anderson retired 97, Huddy 97, Messier in 04 but he last played forthe Oilers in 91

HM? Simpson retired in 95, Mact 97

The is a point a few us are trying to make

 

[GrumpyKoala]

Anderson retired 97, Huddy 97, Messier in 04 but he last played forthe Oilers in 91

HM? Simpson retired in 95, Mact 97

The is a point a few us are trying to make

You are correct, I somehow thought 1990 as the cut of date mid way through doing my list...

Fixed

 

[rboomercat90]

How do you go a stretch of 25 years where Dwayne Roloson and a 38 year old Mike Smith are easily your two best goaltenders? It’s depressing to think about.

 

[JordanGalhanth]

How do you go a stretch of 25 years where Dwayne Roloson and a 38 year old Mike Smith are easily your two best goaltenders? It’s depressing to think about.

Can you imagine 2006 Roli with our current roster?

...nah, he'd get Schwartz'd.

 

[Spawn]

How do you go a stretch of 25 years where Dwayne Roloson and a 38 year old Mike Smith are easily your two best goaltenders? It’s depressing to think about.

Imo 16-17 Talbot was the best goalie this team has had since Cujo.

 

[Trafalgar Sadge Law]

No freaking way you put a guy who was a liability here for multiple seasons in Adam Larsson over the guy who had one of the most dominant defenseman performances in NHL playoff history. That's honestly even more egregious than you putting Bill Ranford for like 5 games.

Anyways most people's lists would probably look like the below give or take a few forwards:

McDavid
Draisaitl
Hall
Bouchard
Pronger
Roloson

RNH
Hyman
Eberle/Hemsky
Nurse
Ekholm
Talbot

 

[Tobias Kahun]

McDavid
Draisaitl
Hall
Bouchard
Pronger
Roloson

RNH
Hyman
Hemsky
Ekholm
Nurse
Talbot

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Judging them by their time as Oilers in this millennia (so no Oates shenanigans).

C: McDavid, Drai, Weight, Nedved
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Horcoff, Stoll, Marchant, Gagner, York, Comrie

LW: RNH. Hall, Smyth, ... (wow the Oil are shallow when it comes to quality LWers)
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Kane, Maroon, Penner, Torres, Sykora, Neal, Samsonov, Perron

RW: Hyman, Ebs, Hemsky, Guerin
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Carter, Pisani (if only for playoff heroics), Mike Grier's shoulder socket

LD: Pronger, Ekholm, Souray
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Nurse, Klef, Smid, Whitney. Grebeshkov, Niinimaa, Brewer, Hamrlik, Poti

RD: Bouchard, Vishnovsy, Smith
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Petry, Barrie, Larsson, Staios, Gilbert

Goal: Talbot, Salo (the two who garnered the most Vezina votes)
Shoutout, but miss the cut: Smith, Roloson, Skinner, Dubnyk, Garon (but only in a shootout)

So that leaves you with...

Drai-McDavid-Hyman
Hall-RNH-Ebs (Yes, I rotated Drai and RNH to fit their more iconic lines, sue me)
Smyth-Weight-Guerin
Horcoff-Nedved-Hemsky
*Hoff wins the LW spot as he was the one Oiler all-star of the bunch.

Pronger-Smith
Ekholm-Bouchard
Souray-Vishovsky

Talbot
Salo



For "Fun": The all-hype, no-substance team (Or the Broken Hearts Club)
Because we lived through a decade of darkness, and I still have PTSD when it comes to this team

POS-Nylander-Lupul
Omark-Lander-MPS (the Swede-misses)
Rita-Niinimaki-Pulju (the Finn-misses)
Mikhnov-Schremp-Yak (the offensive wondernots; eye glasses, sugartits, and bees not included)

Benson-Pouliot-JFJ (the woulda-coulda-shoulda drafted line, otherwise known as the DeBrincat-Parise connection. And yes, I am annoyed Reinhart plays defence, and that Steve Kelly last played for the Oil in '98 or else I could have had Doan here too)

Pitkanen-Schultz
Nikitin-Fayne
Reinhart-Paigin


Montoya
Brossoit


The Enforcers

Macintyre-Kassian-Laraque
Peckham-Brown
HM: Gazdic

 

[Drivesaitl]

You are correct, I somehow thought 1990 as the cut of date mid way through doing my list...

Fixed

Welcome to getting old. Forgetting a decade.

 

[KeithIsActuallyBad]

I nominate the draft lottery balls.