Dingo
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The NHL has featured, with small exceptions due to the KHL, all of the best hockey players in the world. Also, right around this time, Wayne Gretzky went to an American team, American promotion of the game ensued, contracts skyrocketed, and Mats Sundin went first overall in the draft. The message from all of this was -" no matter where you are from, you can become a millionaire playing hockey here"
This also coincides with when many of us were alive and watching as older than just little kids, we have seen with our own eyes and can cut through the rhetoric a bit, as opposed to older stuff. This takes out the romanticism of the Soviets and Orr and Howe, etc.
So, in this time, at the beginning of this time, Canada supplied about half of the NHL population, and roughly a quarter from the USA and a quarter from Europe. This is slowly bleeding towards being more like 3 thirds, although the USA may likely take over a bit. Anyhow, close enough.
For anyone willing to play, can you please give me your best, peak condition, Team Canada, Team USA, or Team Europe, or all three if you would like??
I would say, as they were at their best in this time period. Borje Salming should not make Team Europe, for instance.... unless one thinks he was exceptional in Detroit.
I want to see what people come up with before I return to this post and post my own.
Europe (take 1):
Ovechkin - Forsberg - Kucherov
Draisaitl - Malkin - Jagr
Selanne - Fedorov - Bure
Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Kopitar
Lidstrom - Hedman
Chara - Josi
Karlsson - Konstantinov
Hasek
Lundqvist
Canada:
Lemieux - Gretzky - Lindros
Kariya - McDavid - Mackinnon
Crosby - Sakic - Yzerman
Messier - Bergeron - St. Louis
Bourque - Pronger
Coffey - Stevens
Makar - Weber
Roy
Brodeur
USA:
K. Stevens - Modano - Hull
Pavelski - Roenick - Kane
Leclair - Matthews - Guentzel
Gaudreau - Lafontaine - Kessel
Leetch - Chelios
Fox - R. Suter
Hughes - Carlson
Thomas
Quick
This also coincides with when many of us were alive and watching as older than just little kids, we have seen with our own eyes and can cut through the rhetoric a bit, as opposed to older stuff. This takes out the romanticism of the Soviets and Orr and Howe, etc.
So, in this time, at the beginning of this time, Canada supplied about half of the NHL population, and roughly a quarter from the USA and a quarter from Europe. This is slowly bleeding towards being more like 3 thirds, although the USA may likely take over a bit. Anyhow, close enough.
For anyone willing to play, can you please give me your best, peak condition, Team Canada, Team USA, or Team Europe, or all three if you would like??
I would say, as they were at their best in this time period. Borje Salming should not make Team Europe, for instance.... unless one thinks he was exceptional in Detroit.
I want to see what people come up with before I return to this post and post my own.
Europe (take 1):
Ovechkin - Forsberg - Kucherov
Draisaitl - Malkin - Jagr
Selanne - Fedorov - Bure
Zetterberg - Datsyuk - Kopitar
Lidstrom - Hedman
Chara - Josi
Karlsson - Konstantinov
Hasek
Lundqvist
Canada:
Lemieux - Gretzky - Lindros
Kariya - McDavid - Mackinnon
Crosby - Sakic - Yzerman
Messier - Bergeron - St. Louis
Bourque - Pronger
Coffey - Stevens
Makar - Weber
Roy
Brodeur
USA:
K. Stevens - Modano - Hull
Pavelski - Roenick - Kane
Leclair - Matthews - Guentzel
Gaudreau - Lafontaine - Kessel
Leetch - Chelios
Fox - R. Suter
Hughes - Carlson
Thomas
Quick
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