How would a danish all time team look like?
Mikkel Bødker - Frans Nielsen - Jannik Hansen
Lars Eller - Heinz Ehlers - Jens Nielsen
Nichlas Hardt - Peter Regin - Kim Staal
Morten Green - Soren True - Ronny Larsen
Dan Jensen - Jesper Duus
Fredrik Ã…kesson - Jesper Daamgard
Daniel Nielsen - Philip Larsen
Frederik Andersen
Peter Hirsch
Everyone in prime, this team could take medal in World Championship.
Looks good and very well thought out.
[Just never Lars Eller on the wing,
]
You have both the greats from the 1980/90´s and onwards ´till today.
My personal favourite top 3 is Jens Nielsen, Jesper Duus and Frans Nielsen.
For making an all-time roster sometimes you also have to go back further in time if you had truly stand out players that was way ahead of their teammates.
You couldn't always argue whether one want to regard
Poul Popiel as Danish or not. When he played in NHL (was an original Canuck) and WHA, he was an american citizen (but ethnically Danish and born in Denmark).
Source:
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=50214
Also it's hard when making on all-time roster to keep out
Jørgen Hviid, who was decades of skill level before anyone else in Denmark and he is without doubt the "Father of Danish hockey".
I have made an extensive thread about him here - including later in the thread findings about his job as a cold war agent from opened CIA files.
http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1750187
Eliteprospects is lacking a lot of information on him and some that they have is wrong.
His son
Jesper Hviid was also a Danish hockey great from the 70's and actually drafted to the WHA in 1972, but for some strange reason they retracted their pick? He scored an enormous amounts of goals in the Danish league for several years.
Source:
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=82421
Also from the 60's and 70's goalie
Bent Roland Hansen needs some consideration. (Perhaps as third goalie).
Source:
http://www.eliteprospects.com/player.php?player=241794