Which line combination would be the best?

[95snipes]

All players in their prime

Jamie Benn-Anze Kopitar-Leon Draisaitl
Rick Nash-Joe Thornton-Jarome Iginla
Zach Parise-Evgeni Malkin-Mikko Rantanen
Markus Naslund-Auston Matthews-Corey Perry

 

[Stewie Griffin]

Nash-Thornton-Iginla is my vote. Thornton dishing to either of those two would be awesome.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Nash & Thornton were excellent together
I’ll go with them

 

[wintersej]

I don’t like the Matthews/Perry combo. Too many guys just looking for their shot.

Malkin the best player here, but worst linemates.

The Thornton and Kopitar lines would both just be a handful to defend. Nash and Thornton is the safer pick since we know they have worked together, so I’ll go on that direction.

 

[AvroArrow]

The thought of a prime Jumbo + Iginla is terrifying.

 

[The Moose is Loose]

That first line would be unstoppable

It’s the best combination of physicality and defense along with high end offense. Only the 2nd line would be better offensively

 

[HugeInTheShire]

I was torn between lines 1 and 2, flipped a coin and picked line 1

 

[95snipes]

Thank you to everyone who has participated so far. I figured Malkin would garner votes on his own and the size/skill combo of Malkin/Rantanen would attract votes. So I added Parise as a 3rd player who was great, but not quite MVP level like some of the others, to try to make the line more even. In hindsight perhaps a guy like Panarin instead of Parise would have been more interesting.

 

[KoozNetsOff 92]

Malkin is the best player but has by far the worst line mates. Close between line 1 and line 2. Voted 2.

Nash: rocket winner
Thornton: ross+hart winner
Iginla: ross+rocket+lindsay winner

 

[Boreal01]

Nash/Thornton/Iginla
Benn/Kopitar/Draisaitl

Naslund/Matthews/Perry
Parise/Malkin/Rantanen

 

[Larry Hanson]

Iginla scored 52 goals in a rough low scoring era with Craig Conroy as his centre, can you imagine with Thornton?

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Nash is the weak link but luckily Joe and Iggy knew how to pass.