Which Franchise Player Would You Rather Have in Their Prime? (Poll Redo)

[blundluntman]

Which Franchise Player Would You Rather Have in Their Prime (In today's scoring climate)?​

Forward: 125+ Point Selke Winner​

Defenseman: 50 Goal/100 Point Norris Winner (Top 5 Defensively)​

Goalie: .935 Sv% Vezina Winner​

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[dirtydanglez]

a 50 goal dman who is also a norris winner and top 5 defensively.

 

[geebster]

That defenseman is too much of a cheat code to have there. A 50 goal 100 point defenseman is strictly better than a 125 point Selke forward. I voted for the goalie though since a .935 start to finish is enough to win if it maintains in the playoffs. Tough call between the goalie and defenseman though, but a goalie on THAT level is just cheating.

 

[Dumais]

Barkov or Kopitar with 125pts please

 

[Albatros]

If your goalie is .935 then you're pretty much guaranteed to be doing well as a team.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Vezina winner is easily last. Been there done that. The best goalie is not that much better than average and goalie is too much a product of the team.

I said the Selke winner. You can be Karlsson and have 100 points and win the Norris but your defense sucks. 125 player is good for the art ross and you add Selke level defense? I'm shocked it's not number 1.

 

[Regal]

Vezina winner is easily last. Been there done that. The best goalie is not that much better than average and goalie is too much a product of the team.

I said the Selke winner. You can be Karlsson and have 100 points and win the Norris but your defense sucks. 125 player is good for the art ross and you add Selke level defense? I'm shocked it's not number 1.

It says the Norris winner is top 5 defensively

 

[SnowblindNYR]

It says the Norris winner is top 5 defensively

I didn't see that because it wasn't in the poll. My bad.

 

[Regal]

I didn't see that because it wasn't in the poll. My bad.

Yea, fair enough, I read the post before the poll so didn’t notice it was left out.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

Yea, fair enough, I read the post before the poll so didn’t notice it was left out.

I don't know if I'd change my answer anyway. 125 points is an insane season even without the Selke.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

The D is equal to Bobby Orr, easy choice

 

[biturbo19]

A 125pt Selke winner is the best player in the league, easily. That is a Hart trophy lock.


A 50G defenceman winning the Norris...i think just speaks more to how stupid the Norris voting is these days. It speaks nothing to the actual two-way all-around ability of a defenceman. It's become the "Art Ross for Defencemen" and it's obscenely stupid. Hence Erik Karlsson winning it recently while playing no defence on a bad team that lost most games and allowed him to just screw around and put up points. He was far from the best defenceman that season and i will argue that 'til i die.


And goaltending...it's tempting because a hot goaltender at the right time can absolutely be a ticket to the Cup...but a goalie who ruled the regular season, is no guarantee of anything that'll happen in the playoffs. It's often someone else who gets hot at the right moment. It's too volatile.

 

[Eternal Leaf]

Defenseman.

He's going to get the most ice time and will absolutely dominate those minutes.

 

[bossram]

People are way overthinking this. Like, it's the goalie, by a lot.

If you could guarantee your goalie is going to be .935, you're giving up basically 2 goals per game. If you're giving up only 2 goals per game, you are going to win a lot of games.

Have we not learned from the PDO heater teams yet?

 

[centipede2233]

If it said a 100 pt d man I would have voted for the selke forward. But a 50 goal 100 pt d man top 5 defensively is bobby orr. I’ll take that!

 

[AlwaysSunnyInDetroit]

is this just for a 1 year peak or lengthy prime? a modern day 50 goal, 100 point norris winner with top 5 defense over multiple seasons is basically a better bobby orr than bobby orr