Team of the Decade: 3rd line Center.

[Fitzy]

Staal rounded out our second pairing with an easy victory. Next up is third line center. We have some good candidates, enough that I'm confident at least one center that doesn't make the starting roster will end up as a spare forward.

Below are the NYR player stats for the decade... (Note, the second half of the 09-10 season is not included in these stats, unfortunately)

Player Season Finder | Hockey-Reference.com

Team of the Decade

Forward
Kreider-Stepan-Gaborik
Dubinsky-Zibanejad-Zuccarello
____-_____-Nash
____-_____-_____

Extra Forwards ______-_____

Defense
McDonagh-Girardi
Staal-Stralman
_____-_____

7th defenseman -_____

Goalies

Lundqvist
_______

Head Coach- John Tortorella

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[Fitzy]

I went with Brassard. He and Richards had similar careers here but Brass gets my nod for doing what he did on a cheaper contract, with lower expectations. Plus, he had a bonus hot playoff run on top of Richards's accomplishments.

 

[Kovalev27]

Torts really Ahead of AV? We took the league into a speed game under AV. Everyone copied us. Lot of big moments. Stanley Cup Final. A Presidents Trophy. I would have gone AV for sure

 

[CasusBelli]

Brassard was clutch. Nuff said.

 

[aufheben]

This is basically becoming the 2013-14 roster lirl

 

[CasusBelli]

Torts really Ahead of AV? We took the league into a speed game under AV. Everyone copied us. Lot of big moments. Stanley Cup Final. A Presidents Trophy. I would have gone AV for sure

Torts built the team and got the most out of our players; we exceeded expectations. That happy medium between the structural, disciplined, conditioning-based game under Torts and the free-flowing style of AV’s game drove our success during the early AV years. Excessive rigidity under Torts hurt us; lack of discipline and structure under AV hurt us.

 

[JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK]

Torts really Ahead of AV? We took the league into a speed game under AV. Everyone copied us. Lot of big moments. Stanley Cup Final. A Presidents Trophy. I would have gone AV for sure

personally i picked torts out of spite for av

 

[Kovalev27]

Torts built the team and got the most out of our players; we exceeded expectations. That happy medium between the structural, disciplined, conditioning-based game under Torts and the free-flowing style of AV’s game drove our success during the early AV years. Excessive rigidity under Torts hurt us; lack of discipline and structure under AV hurt us.

Imo torts held that team back in a lot of ways and AV got the best out of them.

 

[CasusBelli]

Imo torts held that team back in a lot of ways and AV got the best out of them.

Agree to disagree — but I won’t disagree that Torts held them back offensively.

 

[hella rights]

Thank you, BrassGod

 

[EpicDing]

Gotta be Big Game Brass

 

[JohnC]

 

[Mac n Gs]

Easily went Brassard here. Watching him grow after the Gaborik trade was really fun to watch, plus he led to us getting Mika.

He's one of the best examples of asset management that I've seen in the last 5 years.

 

[kovazub94]

Clutchness of Brassard gets him my nod over Richards.

 

[Edge]

Gotta go with Brassard here.

 

[nyr2k2]

Brass, no doubt.

 

[Rangerfan4life90]

Brass god

 

[Edge]

Feeling a Miller-Brass-Nash third line here.

And a Hagelin-Richards-Fast fourth line.

 

[Fitzy]

Feeling a Miller-Brass-Nash third line here.

And a Hagelin-Richards-Fast fourth line.

My bet is this, except with Callahan over Fast at 4RW.

Also, Miller rubs people the wrong way, so he could potentially slip.

 

[Maximus]

No doubt the clutchness of Brass wins out fairly comfortably over Richards who IMO underachieved for most part here in NY despite a couple of golden moments.

 

[Edge]

My bet is this, except with Callahan over Fast at 4RW.

Also, Miller rubs people the wrong way, so he could potentially slip.

That’s a good point. I hadn’t considered Callahan.

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Brassgod, then Beaver Brad