Favorite player on rival team?

[LordKOTL]

Rival team has to be Datsyuk.

Quasi-rival team? I wish Chicago had Hedman.

 

[BK]

Nicklas Lidström

 

[Rick C137]

Datsyuk was my favorite player growing up. I don’t know if you’d consider them rivals because they weren’t in our division at the time but I was a huge fan of the late 90s/early 00’s Avs teams. Loved Forsberg/Sakic/Roy. That was the team that got me really in to hockey when it was easier to catch them on tv than the hawks.

 

[BuddyTheGoon]

Pekka Rinne

 

[RayP]

Pekka Rinne

Seriously? That’s an odd one.

 

[Kaners PPGs]

Luongo
Tarasenko/O’Reilly
Datsyuk
Peter Forsberg/Joe Sakic

 

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

Detroit: Datsyuk, Lidstrom, Rafalski, Abdelkader, Helm

Detroit is really they only team i considered a legitimate rival and not a forced thing. Aside from Vancouver, but i just didn't really admire anyone on that team except maybe Luongo.

Anyways, those are the guys i really appreciated despite just absolutely loathing the team.

 

[BuddyTheGoon]

Seriously? That’s an odd one.

Yes, seriously!

 

[Hawkaholic]

Schefelie
O'Reilly
MacKinnon

 

[jaysoneil]

Pierre Turgeon
Curtis Joseph

 

[Bubba88]

Detroit
Yzerman (Favorite non-Blackhawk of all time)
Zetterberg
Datsyuk

Vancouver
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin
Roberto Luongo

Los Angeles
Kopitar
Carter
Richards

St Louis
Pietrangelo
Bouwmeester
Tarasenko

I really have to ask About Bobby Lou. Did you like him while we played them or later on after he was traded back to Florida? If it's after Van traded him I agree.

 

[Bubba88]

Those are out of my head. There are more and those aren't just the "i like em" players.

Anaheim: - / Kariya, Giguere
Arizona: - / Nagy
Boston: Bergeron / Bourque, Savard
Buffalo: - / Satan, Hasek, Miller, Drury
Calgary: Gaudreau / Fleury
Carolina: - / Ward
Colorado: MacKinnon / Forsberg, Duchene
Columbus: Dubinsky / Nash, Rookie Mason
Dallas: Benn / Langenbrunner
Detroit: - / Fedorov, Yzerman, Lidstrom, Zetterberg
Edmonton: Draisaitl / -
Florida: Ekblad / Niedermayer, Luongo, Bure
LA: Doughty, Kopitar / Doughty, Kopitar, Quick,
Minnesota: Parise / Suter, Gaborik
Montreal: - / Vezina Theodore
Nashville: Forsberg, Josi, Johanson / Sullivan, Vokoun, Mason
NJ: - / Parise
NYI: Barzal / Tavares, DiPietro
NYR: - / Stepan
Ottawa: Ryan / Yashin, Alfredsson
Philadelphia: Giroux / Gagne, Carter, Richards, Lindros, Recchi
Pittsburgh: - / Jagr, Kovalev
SJ: - / Pavelski
St. Louis: Tarasenko, Pietrangelo / -
Tampa Bay: - / MSL, Richards, Lecavalier, Khabibulin
Toronto: Tavares / McCabe
Vancouver: - / Naslund, Bure
Washington: Ovechkin / Ovechkin, Kölzig
Winnipeg: Wheeler / -
and young Heatley

left of / current
right of / all time

 

[JaegerDice]

I really have to ask About Bobby Lou. Did you like him while we played them or later on after he was traded back to Florida? If it's after Van traded him I agree.

I always thought he was a fantastic goalie. And I think he became likeable via twitter and interviews a few years before he was traded from Vancouver.

 

[Kaners Bald Spot]

Past:
Mike Modano
Brett Hull

Datsyuk was a beast and I liked to watch him play when he wasn't terrorizing the Hawks

Not really a rival, but I always liked Eric Lindros and Mario Lemieux.

Current players:
MacKinnon
Rantanen
Seguin
Josi

On non-rival teams:
PK Subban
the Tkachuk bros.
Hedman
McJesus

Stamkos used to be my favorite non-Hawk but he has now been surpassed by McJesus. Poor guy is stuck on the Oilers. Dude shouldn't have re-signed there.

 

[Joe Scaduto]

Brett Hull

 

[Naster Okan]

Cal Clutterbuck was a guy I really wanted on the hawks when he was in Minny.

 

[Naster Okan]

I had no hate for Boston in that series either.

Everything about Marchand makes me dislike the entirety of Boston. I’ve never been so petty in my life by looking at someone and hating their guts.

 

[x Tame Impala]

I don’t think there was ever much if any hatred towards Bobby LOUUUUUUUU when he was a Canuck. It was just fun watching him fail because 1) Vancouver fans pumped him up so much and 2) when he’d fail he’d REALLY fail and get pulled from playoff games after giving up 5+ goals.

 

[Kaners PPGs]

I don’t think there was ever much if any hatred towards Bobby LOUUUUUUUU when he was a Canuck. It was just fun watching him fail because 1) Vancouver fans pumped him up so much and 2) when he’d fail he’d REALLY fail and get pulled from playoff games after giving up 5+ goals.

I agree with this. No dislike for him at all with the Canucks rather it was just fun to taunt him. My dislike was for Bieksa, Kesler, Burrows, and Torres. I really grew to like Luongo due to Twitter.

 

[Dr Salt]

Datsyuk

 

[BK]

Lidstrom and Fedorov. Scott Niedermeyer.