Mount Rushmore of the Best players on Each Team

[Kimota]

What do you think is the Mount Ruschmore for each NHL team(you can include the defunct teams as well like Atlanta, Quebec, Hartford, etc...). Which is of course the best four all time players in your opinion.

 

[zar]

Gretzky
Messier
McDavid
?

Coffey, Kurri, Anderson, Fuhr, Draisaitl… I’d probably go Coffey but if Draisaitl extends (unlikely) and continues his individual success then I’d go with him due to Coffey’s shorter tenure with the Oilers.

 

[AndreRoy]

Lightning:

Stamkos
Kucherov
Hedman
Vasy

Honorable mention:

Lecavalier
Point

Not on my list because of the way he quit on the team:

St. Louis

 

[Nasti]

This is legitimately hard as a Kings fan. Do we go with the core four who brought the cup to LA, the best players, or the most popular? The players in the convo:

Dionne
Gretzky
Robitaille
Kopitar
Doughty
Brown
Quick

Even if it’s best players, like the thread title says, it’s tough. I’d go with Kopitar, Gretzky, Doughty, and Quick but leaving out Dionne is tough.

 

[Mrb1p]

Montreal

Richard
Lafleur
Beliveau
Morenz/plante/roy/price/Harvey/Robinson

That last spot is basically impossible, I think id go Harvey.

 

[um]

Ovechkin
Backstrom
Langway
Kolzig

 

[ponder719]

Flyers:
Clarke
Giroux
Lindros
Parent

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Lemieux
Jagr
Crosby
Malkin

Easy one.

 

[dr robbie]

66
87
68
71

Penguins are probably the easiest team to do.

 

[Drytoast]

Baun
Gilmour
Sundin
Matthews

It's 4 people. No honorable mentions. It's 4. That's the point and the challenge. Anyone listing more than 4 names fails.

 

[Konnan511]

Easy

Brett Hull
Mike Modano
Daniel Alfredsson
Luc Robitaille

 

[DownIsTheNewUp]

Lightning:

Stamkos
Kucherov
Hedman
Vasy

Honorable mention:

Lecavalier
Point

Not on my list because of the way he quit on the team:

St. Louis

This, exactly.

 

[jetsforever]

Jets 2.0 (excluding Atlanta since they are separate in the OP):

Wheeler
Scheifele
Hellebuyck
Byfuglien

 

[Nasti]

Lemieux
Jagr
Crosby
Malkin

Easy one.

Has to be the easiest team to pick.

 

[um]

Baun
Gilmore
Sundin
Matthews

It's 4 people. No honorable mentions. It's 4.

Bobby Baun?!?!?!?!?

And why are there no winners on your list? I'll go:

Kennedy
Apps
Horton
Salming

Leafs are a very tough one, perhaps the toughest one, but Kennedy and Apps are layups.

 

[TheBeard]

Sharks:
Marleau
Thornton
Pavelski
Nolan

You can make an argument for Nabokov, Burns, Couture, Andrei Nazarov and Doug Wilson I suppose.

 

[GreatSaveEssensa]

Jets:

Hull
Hawerchuk
Selanne
Scheifele

 

[TheBeard]

Lightning:

Stamkos
Kucherov
Hedman
Vasy

Honorable mention:

Lecavalier
Point

Not on my list because of the way he quit on the team:

St. Louis

No love for Brad Richards?

 

[kingsholygrail]

Dionne -All time points leader
Robitaille - All time goals leader
Kopitar - Most games played, all time assists leader
Quick - Most of the goalie records

 

[Rooch]

Selanne
Kariya
Niedermayer
Getzlaf

 

[psycat]

This is legitimately hard as a Kings fan. Do we go with the core four who brought the cup to LA, the best players, or the most popular? The players in the convo:

Dionne
Gretzky
Robitaille
Kopitar
Doughty
Brown
Quick

Even if it’s best players, like the thread title says, it’s tough. I’d go with Kopitar, Gretzky, Doughty, and Quick but leaving out Dionne is tough.

Would go with your list -Quick +Dionne. That's as an outsider and just in terms who I think is most iconic for the team.

 

[LT]

Mike Modano
Jere Lehtinen
Sergei Zubov
Jamie Benn

 

[zar]

Baun
Gilmore
Sundin
Matthews

It's 4 people. No honorable mentions. It's 4. That's the point and the challenge. Anyone listing more than 4 names fails.

Anyone who can’t spell the name of their 4 best players fails “worser”.

 

[Crease]

Rangers starting five would be Lundqvist Leetch Park Messier Boucher and Cook. HM to Bathgate.

 

[brentashton]

Easy

Brett Hull
Mike Modano
Daniel Alfredsson
Luc Robitaille

I’m assuming you are trolling?

Howe
Yzerman
Lidstrom
Delvecchio**
**honorable mention to Pavel D, sawchuck, Ullman, Zetterberg and Ted Lindsay.