Your national dream team of the 00s

[Regal]

CANADA
McDavid ‘23 - Crosby ‘11 - Bergeron ‘14
Lemieux ‘01 - Sakic ‘01 - Iginla ‘02
Marchand ‘21 - Toews ‘13 - MacKinnon ‘24
Stamkos ‘12 - Getzlaf ‘14 - Perry ‘11
Ex: Benn ‘15, M.Richards ‘09

Bourque ‘01 - Makar ‘22
Keith ‘10 - Pronger ‘07
Niedermayer ‘06 - Doughty ‘12
Ex: Weber ‘12, MacInnis ‘03

Price ‘14
Brodeur ‘07
Luongo ‘07

 

[Eye of Ra]

Someone do slovakia it will be interesting

Someone already did, post 5

 

[Eye of Ra]

Lithuania;

D Kumeliauskas - Zubrus - Bernatavicius
Bosas - T Kumeliauskas - Lelenas
D Bauba - Kuliesius - Pliskauskas
Verenis - Bogdizul - E Bauba
Kraukauskas, Cizas

Kasparaitis - Alisauskas
Katulis - Kieras
Aliukonis - Kaminskas

Armalis
Aleinikovas

@SoundAndFury any changes you would make?

 

[SoundAndFury]

Lithuania;

D Kumeliauskas - Zubrus - Bernatavicius
Bosas - T Kumeliauskas - Lelenas
D Bauba - Kuliesius - Pliskauskas
Verenis - Bogdizul - E Bauba
Krakauskas, Cizas

Kasparaitis - Alisauskas
Katulis - Kieras
Aliukonis - Kaminskas

Armalis
Aleinikovas

@SoundAndFury any changes you would make?

Excellent attempt, although there is definitely some old-timer bias overall. Or should I say big-points-in-the-EPIHL bias. I mean really, Bosas, Kaleinikovas and Gintautas are pretty much the same level of players and 1 is on the 2nd line and the other 2 are not on the team?

Sarunas Kuliesius, for example, was at no point a truly professional player. He only has a chance to get in if you account for longevity, availability and that sort of thing. But then Bogdziul, Verenis or Krakauskas should be nowhere near the team. If you only take players at their very prime, then Kuliesius is easily replaced by Dovydas Kulevicius.

So I think I would go:

D Bauba - Zubrus - Bernatavicius
D Kumeliauskas - T Kumeliauskas - Lelenas
Bosas - Kulevicius - Pliskauskas
Kaleinikovas - Cizas - Gintautas
Krakauskas, E Bauba

Kasparaitis - Alisauskas
Katulis - Kieras
Aliukonis - Kaminskas

Armalis
Aleinikovas

Another thing I noticed, we somehow only have 1 Russian surname on this dream team. Surely a coincidence but still pretty amazing considering our hockey landscape.

 

[Czechboy]

So basically the current national team lol

Yup, I feel like I've seen a lot of those names in our last few games at the Skodas!

 

[Czechboy]

CANADA
McDavid ‘23 - Crosby ‘11 - Bergeron ‘14
Lemieux ‘01 - Sakic ‘01 - Iginla ‘02
Marchand ‘21 - Toews ‘13 - MacKinnon ‘24
Stamkos ‘12 - Getzlaf ‘14 - Perry ‘11
Ex: Benn ‘15, M.Richards ‘09

Bourque ‘01 - Makar ‘22
Keith ‘10 - Pronger ‘07
Niedermayer ‘06 - Doughty ‘12
Ex: Weber ‘12, MacInnis ‘03

Price ‘14
Brodeur ‘07
Luongo ‘07

That Goaltending! WOW. The whole team is amazing and I doubt they'd lose but it's crazy to see how good those goalies are!

 

[Eye of Ra]

Kazakstan

Mikhailis - Antropov - Starchenko
Dawes - Boyd - Bochenski
Rudenko - Y Koreshkov - A Koreshkov
Zhailauov - Upper - Krasnoslobodtsev

Dallman - Blokhin
Troshchinsky - Sokolov
Savchenko - Semyonov

Kolesnik
Yeremeyev

 

[Eye of Ra]

Belarus,

Kostitsyn - Grabovski - Kostitsyn
Sharangovich - Kalyuzhny - Protas
Tsyplakov - Zadelyonov - Skabelka
Koltsov - Stas - Antonenko

Salei - Levshunov
Falkovsky - Korobov
Lisovets - Khenkel

Mezin
Koval

 

[Eye of Ra]

Austria,

Vanek - Rossi - Grabner
M Raffl - Kasper - Fabio Hofer
Setzinger - Komarek - Kalt
P Raffl - Koch - Nödl

Pöck - Reinbacher
Heinrich - Ulmer
Trattnig - André Lakos

Starkbaum
Divis

 

[ozo]

Kazakstan

Mikhailis - Antropov - Starchenko
Dawes - Boyd - Bochenski
Rudenko - Y Koreshkov - A Koreshkov
Zhailauov - Upper - Krasnoslobodtsev

Dallman - Blokhin
Troshchinsky - Sokolov
Savchenko - Semyonov

Kolesnik
Yeremeyev

Yuck.


Boris Alexandrov - Y Koreshkov - Rudenko
Mikhailis - Antropov - Starchenko
Zhailauov - Upper - A Koreshkov
Pushkaryov - Shafranov - Krasnoslobodtsev

Nikitin - Blokhin
Antipin - Glovatsky
Troshchinsky - Sokolov
Savchenko - Semyonov

Nabokov
Kolesnik
Yeremeyev

 

[Saga of the Elk]

The big Russian problem today is no C's.... Look at those 4 beauts. Their wingers are always awesome. Goalies too! D is pretty strong for Russian standards. Like us, a nation of Wingers and Goalies.

Could throw Yashin on that Russian roster in Kuznetsov's spot

 

[Czechboy]

Could throw Yashin on that Russian roster in Kuznetsov's spot

2000's Yashin was still pretty good:

An up and down player... I always though 1000 games and 1000 points.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Yuck.


Boris Alexandrov - Y Koreshkov - Rudenko
Mikhailis - Antropov - Starchenko
Zhailauov - Upper - A Koreshkov
Pushkaryov - Shafranov - Krasnoslobodtsev

Nikitin - Blokhin
Antipin - Glovatsky
Troshchinsky - Sokolov
Savchenko - Semyonov

Nabokov
Kolesnik
Yeremeyev

But looking at quality alone then Dawes, Bochenski, Dallman should make it? Or im i overating them?

 

[ozo]

But looking at quality alone then Dawes, Bochenski, Dallman should make it? Or im i overating them?

Or more likely they have as much as common with Kazakhstan NT as you and I do . Why not add Karlsson or Blacker, Valk or Dietz? at some point you have a full roster of players that discovered Kazakhstan from a certain movie...

 

[Silky Johnson]

Or more likely they have as much as common with Kazakhstan NT as you and I do . Why not add Karlsson or Blacker, Valk or Dietz? at some point you have a full roster of players that discovered Kazakhstan from a certain movie...

Woah woah wee wah...I like very much...success.