Your team's best all 2000's roster

[namttebih]

@Eye of Ra made an all 2000's international team thread, so I'm copying his idea at a club level. If this has been done already, so be it - merge away.

The only rule I have is that it's using the players prime year with your team. For example, the Leafs acquired Brian Leetch at the trade dead line at the end of his career. That's the version that they get - not the Noris/Conn Smythe version.

Nylander - Sundin - Roberts
JVR - Matthews - Kessel
Mogilny - Tavares - Marner
Corson - Kadri - Tucker

Reilly - Yushkevich
Kaberle - Tanev
Phaneuf - Kubina

Joseph
Andersen

That D core will look pretty silly next to NSH

 

[Kent Nilsson]

Early 2000s really dont do any favors to habs

Erik Cole - Nick Suzuki - Cole Caufield
Max Pacioretty - Tomas Plekanec - Alexei Kovalev
Mike Cammalleri - Saku Koivu - Alexander Radulov
Tomas Tatar - Philip Danault - Brendan Gallagher

Andrei Markov - PK Subban
Lane Hutson - Shea Weber
Roman Hamrlik - Jeff Petry
Mike Komisarek

Carey Price
Jose Theodore


Notes:

- Erik Cole 1 year but was so good.
- I used to think Radulov was the best forward habs have had in that period until Suzuki surpassed him recently. He was a hab for 1 year too.
- As a hab Kovalev is basically a 1 year wonder.
- 2002 Theodore is the single greatest performance of that group.
- I considered Slaf but I dont think he’s there yet.

 

[Kent Nilsson]

Brendan Shanahan - Steve Yzerman - Brett Hull
Tomas Holmstrom - Sergei Fedorov - Marian Hossa
Henrik Zetterberg - Pavel Datsyuk - Johan Franzen
Dylan Larkin - Igor Larionov - Lucas Raymond

Nicklas Lidstrom - Brian Rafalski
Niklas Kronwall - Chris Chelios
Mathieu Schneider - Moritz Seider

Dominik Hasek
Chris Osgood

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Early 2000s really dont do any favors to habs

Erik Cole - Nick Suzuki - Cole Caufield
Max Pacioretty - Tomas Plekanec - Alexei Kovalev
Mike Cammalleri - Saku Koivu - Alexander Radulov
Tomas Tatar - Philip Danault - Brendan Gallagher

Andrei Markov - PK Subban
Lane Hutson - Shea Weber
Roman Hamrlik - Jeff Petry
Mike Komisarek

Carey Price
Jose Theodore


Notes:

- Although he was there only 1 year I think Erik Cole is the best season by a LW we’ve had in that period.
- I used to think Radulov was the best forward habs have had in that period until Suzuki surpassed him recently. He was a hab for 1 year too.
- As a hab Kovalev is basically a 1 year wonder.
- 2002 Theodore is the single greatest performance of that group.
- I considered Slaf but I dont think he’s there yet.

I think this is an absolutely stacked team personally

 

[namttebih]

Brendan Shanahan - Steve Yzerman - Brett Hull
Tomas Holmstrom - Sergei Fedorov - Marian Hossa
Henrik Zetterberg - Pavel Datsyuk - Johan Franzen
Dylan Larkin - Igor Larionov - Lucas Raymond

Nicklas Lidstrom - Brian Rafalski
Niklas Kronwall - Chris Chelios
Mathieu Schneider - Moritz Seider

Dominik Hasek
Chris Osgood

That Center depth is mental

 

[DJJones]

Was going to do the Flames because our defense is stacked but I couldn't decide who our 1C would be and I got sad.

 

[MessierII]

Draisaitl McDavid Hyman
Smyth Weight Hemsky
Hall Nugent-Hopkins Carter
Kane Horcoff Eberle

Pronger Bouchard
Ekholm Visnovsky
Nurse Souray

Roloson
Salo

 

[jetsforever]

Just off the top of my head so might be missing someone:

Connor - Scheifele - Wheeler
Ehlers - Stastny - Laine
Ladd - Dubois - Vilardi
Kane - Monahan - Little

Morrissey - Byfuglien
Myers - Trouba
Enstrom - DeMelo

Hellebuyck
Brossoit

 

[tarheelhockey]

Whitney - Eric Staal - Jarvis
Skinner - Aho - O’Neill
Teravainen - Brind’amour - Cole
Svechnikov - Jordan Staal - Williams

Slavin - Pesce
Pitkanen - Faulk
Skjei - Hamilton

Ward
Irbe

 

[King'sPawn]

Brown - Kopitar - Kempe
Palffy - Allison - Deadmarsh
Gaborik - Richards - Carter
Frolov - Byfield - Williams

Norstrom - Doughty
Mitchell - Muzzin
Visnovsky - Martinez

Quick
Jones

 

[Goatlender]

Sedin - Sedin - Miller
Naslund - Pettersson - Bertuzzi
Horvat - Kesler - Burrows
Demitra - Malhotra - Toffoli
Boeser, Sundin, Mogilny (his last season ended in 2000)

Hughes - Tanev
Edler - Ohlund
Hamhuis - Salo
Jovanovski, Hronek, Ehrhoff, Bieksa

Luongo
Demko
Schneider/Markstrom

 

[Regal]

VANCOUVER
Sedin ‘10 - Sedin ‘10 - Burrows ‘09
Naslund ‘03 - Pettersson ‘23 - Bertuzzi ‘02
Miller ‘24 - Kesler ‘11 - Garland ‘24
Cooke ‘03 - Malhotra ‘11 - Hansen ‘12
Ex: Morrison ‘02, Joshua ‘24, Sherwood ‘25

Hughes ‘25 - Ohlund ‘04
Hamhuis ‘12 - Bieksa ‘12
Edler ‘15 - Tanev ‘15
Ex: Ehrhoff ‘10, Salo ‘06

Luongo ‘07
Schneider ‘12
Demko ‘22

 

[Goatlender]

VANCOUVER
Sedin ‘10 - Sedin ‘10 - Burrows ‘09
Naslund ‘03 - Pettersson ‘23 - Bertuzzi ‘02
Miller ‘24 - Kesler ‘11 - Garland ‘24
Cooke ‘03 - Malhotra ‘11 - Hansen ‘12
Ex: Morrison ‘02, Joshua ‘24, Sherwood ‘25

Hughes ‘25 - Ohlund ‘04
Hamhuis ‘12 - Bieksa ‘12
Edler ‘15 - Tanev ‘15
Ex: Ehrhoff ‘10, Salo ‘06

Luongo ‘07
Schneider ‘12
Demko ‘22

I disagree on the bolded (unless you’re building a team based on designated roles, like building a 4th line based on 4th line esque players). I think you can do better than these players, such as Horvat, Demitra, Mogilny, etc.

 

[qcal1427]

Ovechkin-Backstrom-Wilson
Bondra-Kuznetsov-Oshie
M. Johansson-Strome-Semin
Eller-Oates-Fedorov

Gonchar-Carlson
Orlov-Niskanen
Orpik-Green

Holtby
Kolzig

Forwards were actually insanely difficult to fill as outside of Ovi/Backstrom/Kuzy they actually haven't had many that have been with the team for longer than 5 years and a ton of 1-2 year stopgaps all throughout the decade -- Lang, M. Nylander, Kozlov, Ribiero, Grabovski, Fedorov, Knuble, etc.. Fedorov sneaks into the last spot because his playoffs were just that good/important to the team.

No I'm not putting Jagr onto any Caps team.

As always the defense and goalies are incredibly underrated

 

[SmokeyDuck]

Ryan-Getzlaf-Perry
Kunitz-McDonald-Selanne
Rakell-Carlsson-Terry
McTavish-Kesler-Gauthier


Pronger-Neidermayer
Viznovksy-Beauchemin
Fowler-Montour
Lindholm
Theodore

Giguire
Hiller
Gibson

Just off the top of me head. May have missed some.

 

[Allan92]

Rangers:

Jagr Nylander Straka
Panarin Zibanejad Gaborik
Kreider Nedved Zuccarello
Hagelin Stepan Callahan

McDonagh Fox
Staal Girardi
Miller Klein

Lundqvist
Shesterkin


Overall great goaltending and a solid wings and D-core (a lot of people wouldn't put Miller in there but I love his game).

Centres are weak compared to other teams listed

 

[ValeriKamensky]

Claude Giroux - Mike Richards - Jeff Carter
Simon Gagne - Sean Couturier - Jakub Voracek
Scott Hartnell - Daniel Briere - Mark Recchi
Wayne Simmonds - Keith Primeau - Travis Konecny

Chris Pronger - Shayne Gostisbehere
Kimmo Timonen - Brayden Coburn
Ivan Provorov - Mark Streit

Roman Cechmanek
Martin Biron

Big fan of Dejardins, but 2000s are not his prime years

 

[Hennessy]

Tanguay - Sakic - Iginla
Kadri - Mackinnon - Rantanen
Duchene - Forsberg - Hejduk
Nichushkin - O'Reilly - Drury

Makar - Foote
Blake - Bourque
E. Johnson - Toews

Roy
Varlamov

Kariya and Selanne have no business being included, buy they'd really make this roster look bonkers.

Edit: it's been brought to my attention that I left off Landeskog. D'oh!

 

[davemess]

Penguins.

Feel like i am missing somebody obvious

Straka- Lemieux - Jagr
Guentzel - Crosby - Kovalev
Neal - Malkin - Kessel
Rakell- Lang - Rust

Gonchar - Letang
Oprik - Whitney
Dumoulin - Kasparaitis

Fleury
Murray

 

[UED]

I think this is an absolutely stacked team personally

It's pretty horrible. It would probably win the cup. Probably. Very, very similar to today's Dallas Stars but with Danault and Weber instead of a 17th and 18th PP specialist. Except it's 3-4 generations of Habs "greatness" put together lol

 

[Appleyard]

Claude Giroux - Mike Richards - Jeff Carter
Simon Gagne - Sean Couturier - Jakub Voracek
Scott Hartnell - Daniel Briere - Mark Recchi
Wayne Simmonds - Keith Primeau - Travis Konecny

Chris Pronger - Shayne Gostisbehere
Kimmo Timonen - Brayden Coburn
Ivan Provorov - Mark Streit

Roman Cechmanek
Martin Biron

Big fan of Dejardins, but 2000s are not his prime years

Think you have to have Lindros (depending on how you demark 2000s...), Forsberg and Desjardins in there. Kim Johnsson too. And I think Mason was better than Biron overall. Probably knock Hartnell out of the team too for Roenick, who played some wing for Flyers.

Lindros played 22 games for the Flyers in the 2000s and was still one of the best players on earth.
Forsberg was still a Hart contender level guy in time as a Flyer on a game-by-game basis.
Desjardins was still elite in early 2000s... heck... he had 2x top 15 Norris finishes, playing 26-27 mins a night.
Johnsson was an all-around top pairing guy. 24 minutes a night and 40 points in low scoring era. Better than Streit for sure, Coburn too, and probably Provorov at his best.

Think to accommodate I would have:

Giroux-Lindros-Voracek
Gagne-Forsberg-Recchi
Briere-Richards-Carter
Roenick-Couturier-Konecny

Pronger-Desjardins
Timonen-Johnsson
Provorov-Gostisbehere

Cechmanek
Mason

 

[matt trick]

Off the top of my head, sure I forgot someone.

Heatley-Thornton-Nolan
Marleau-Celebrini-Pavs
Michalek-Couture-Selanne
Clowe-Damphousse-Meier
Cheechoo, Smith

Vlasic-Karlsson
Hannan-Burns
Blake-Boyle
Stuart

Nabby
Askarov

 

[namttebih]

Tanguay - Sakic - Iginla
Kadri - Mackinnon - Rantanen
Duchene - Forsberg - Hejduk
Nichushkin - O'Reilly - Drury

Makar - Foote
Blake - Bourque
E. Johnson - Toews

Roy
Varlamov

Kariya and Selanne have no business being included, buy they'd really make this roster look bonkers.

This is the one I've been waiting for. Two really good eras in the last quarter century. I'm not sure anyone will be able to top this. That Center depth, top 4 and goaltending is nasty.

HM to DET, but their two eras overlapped leaving a smaller pool to choose from.

 

[namttebih]

Penguins.

Feel like i am missing somebody obvious

Straka- Lemieux - Jagr
Guentzel - Crosby - Kovalev
Neal - Malkin - Kessel
Rakell- Lang - Rust

Gonchar - Letang
Oprik - Whitney
Dumoulin - Kasparaitis

Fleury
Murray

00/01 Lemiux and Jagr
08/09 Crosby and Malkin

Just those 4 might be enough to tip the scales.

 

[Killakirillthethrill]

Just off the top

Whitney - Eric Staal - Jarvis
Skinner - Aho - O’Neill
Teravainen - Brind’amour - Cole
Svechnikov - Jordan Staal - Williams

Slavin - Pesce
Pitkanen - Faulk
Skjei - Hamilton

Ward
Irbe

No Rantanen? Lol