Your teams dream team since the 2012-2013 lockout

[oconnor9sean]

Benn Seguin Radulov
Robertson Hintz Pavelski
Marchment Spezza Duchene
Eriksson Faksa Sharp

Heiskanen Tanev
Lindell Klingberg
Daley Robidas

Lehtonen
Oettinger

 

[CaptainShark]

The 23/24 San Jose Sharks AINEC

 

[SupremeNachos]

Kap Staal Zucc
Boldy JEE Fiala
Parise Rossi Granlund
Nino Koivu Coyle
Haula

Suter Spurgeon
Brodin Faber
Middleton Dumba

Gus
Dubnyk

 

[Blitzkrug]

Marchand/Bergeron/Pastrnak
Lucic/Krejci/Horton
Johansson/Coyle/Heinen
Paille/Campbell/Thornton

Chara/Sidenberg
Boychuk/McAvoy
Lindholm/Krug

Rask
Ullmark

 

[Machinehead]

Not to shit on you or the Rangers, but Brassard being the best center you've had in ~12 years is not optimal.

Amazing W, D and G anyway.

And oh, you left Zibby out. I guess on purpose

Our forward talent has never been optimal, even during that year, but the 2014 Rangers, as a sum of their parts, played my favorite hockey of any team ever. Give them a couple of legit stars like Panarin and Fox and they win back to back Cups.

Zibanejad would change the ingredients too much. I'd prefer to just add a bit to a roster that I know works.

 

[jani]

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Tanguay - Duchene - Hejduk
Lehkonen - Stastny - Iginla
McLeod - O'Reilly - O'Connor

Toews - Makar
Girard - E. Johnson
Zadorov - Manson

Varlamov
Francouz

 

[Oneiro]

Hall-Hischier-Palmieri
Kovalchuk-Hughes-Bratt
Meier-Zajac-Jagr
Elias-Henrique-Coleman

Siegenthaler-Hamilton
Hughes-Pesce
Greene-Severson
Larsson

Schneider
Markstrom

 

[benfranklin]

Insert 2022 Avalanche roster. No changes needed.

 

[Dion TheFluff]

so I'm gonna with the criteria that a player had to play a majority of the season with the team (so not just a deadline acquisition) and using the peak season of that individual player in that time frame.

24 Nylander 22 Matthews 25 Marner
21 Hyman 19 Tavarss 13 Kessel
17 JVR 17 Kadri 14 Lupul
22 Bunting 14 Bozak 22 Mikheyev

19 Rielly 22 Brodie
21 Muzzin 25 Tanev
18 Gardiner 15 Franson

18 Freddie
13 Reimer (Stolarz has potential to be number 1 if he gets healthy and continues to play strong)

if you don't wanna count Marner and Tanev yet because the season is to short. I'd swap them with 22 Marner and 13 Phaneuf.

 

[Regal]

VANCOUVER
Miller ‘24 - Pettersson ‘23 - Boeser ‘18
Sedin ‘13 - Sedin ‘13 - Burrows ‘13
Joshua ‘24 - Horvat ‘23 - Garland ‘25
Sherwood ‘25 - Bonino ‘15 - Hansen ‘13
Ex: Suter ‘25, Blueger ‘24

Hughes ‘25 - Hronek ‘24
Edler ‘15 - Tanev ‘15
Hamhuis ‘13 - Garrison ‘13
Ex: Zadorov ‘24

Demko ‘22
Schneider ‘13

 

[End of Line]

The 15-16 Pens team

Sheary-Crosby-Hornqvist
Kunitz-Malkin-Rust
Hagelin-Bonino-Kessel
Kuhnackl-Cullen-Fehr

Dumoulin-Letang
Daley-Maatta
Cole-Schultz
Lovejoy

Murray
Fleury

 

[tsujimoto74]

If you combine some of Buffalo’s current D with its Eichel-era forwards, you might actually have something.

Skinner-Eichel-Reinhart
E. Kane-O’Reilly-Thompson
M. Foligno-Mittelstadt-Tuch
Girgensons-McLeod-Rodrigues

Byram-Dahlin
Power-Montour
McCabe-Myers
Ristolainen

Ullmark
Luukkonen
Miller
Lehner

 

[dirtydanglez]

Insert 2022 Avalanche roster. No changes needed.

i was curious for the avs, maybe a fan can correct it.

drouin - mackinnon - rantanen
landeskog- o'reillly - nichushkin
burakovsky - stastny - duchene
compher - kadri - lehkonen

toews - makar
girard - johnson
byram - barrie

varlamov
blackwood

 

[Mikeaveli]

Guentzel - Point - St. Louis
Palat - Johnson - Kucherov
Stamkos - Cirelli - Hagel
Goodrow - Gourde - Coleman

Hedman - Moser
Sergachev - Stralman
McDonagh - Cernak

Vasilevskiy
Bishop

 

[hamzarocks]

Marchand Bergeron Pastrnak
Lucic Krejci Horton
Eriksson Lindholm Seguin
Hall Zacha DeBrusk

Chara McAvoy
Lindholm Hamilton
Seidenberg Boychuk

Rask
Ullmark

Some hard cuts on the D side of things. Like I can’t believe Krug or Carlo didn’t make the roster.

Edit: Lindholm probably doesn’t really deserve the spot over Coyle, more of a projection.

You forgot rick nash

Assuming this is players at their best playing for the team since 2013.

If so adding prime Nash instead of someone makes sense.

If its only the version of the player that players for the team then maybe he doesnt make it as not sure if he was better than Debrusk

 

[Bandit]

Don’t need a dream team. The 2014 Kings will do just fine.

 

[DJJones]

Gaudreau - Monahan - Iginla
Tkachuk - Bennett - Lindholm
Ferland - Kadri - Huberdeau
Mangiapane - Backlund - Coleman

Gio - Brodie
Weegar - Rasmus
Hanifin - Tanev

Hamilton should likely be in place of Brodie but that pairing was elite. This team would be a nightmare to play against.

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

i was curious for the avs, maybe a fan can correct it.

drouin - mackinnon - rantanen
landeskog- o'reillly - nichushkin
burakovsky - stastny - duchene
compher - kadri - lehkonen

toews - makar
girard - johnson
byram - barrie

varlamov
blackwood

Zadorov over Girard and Kuemper over Blackwood. For 4th line minutes I'd swap Compher for Calvert, or if we get the luxury of a goon, it has to go to Cody McLeod.

 

[Avs2022]

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Rantanen
Tanguay - Duchene - Hejduk
Lehkonen - Stastny - Iginla
McLeod - O'Reilly - O'Connor

Toews - Makar
Girard - E. Johnson
Zadorov - Manson

Varlamov
Francouz

I still take Nishushkin over Duchene.

 

[Crow]

Based on your Red Wings roster, I'm assuming these are players at their peak, even if they didn't play for the team in question at their peak?

If that's the case, my Blackhawks roster would be:

Sharp - Toews - Hossa
Panarin - Strome - Kane
Debrincat - Teravainen - Bedard
Saad - Danault - Kruger

Keith - Seabrook
Campbell - Hjalmarrson
Oduya - Vlasic

Crawford
Khabibulin

Pretty solid but I’m taking Fluery. Or maybe the Jennings duo of emery/crawford.

 

[JaegerDice]

Pretty solid but I’m taking Fluery. Or maybe the Jennings duo of emery/crawford.

I totally forgot we had Fleury

 

[The Hanging Jowl]

As a Leafs fan, pretty much the only player I'd bring back since those years is Phil Kessel. Harsh reality.

 

[Regal]

I always interpret these questions as a specific season (or two).

Daniel (12-13) - Henrik (12-13) - Burrows (12-13)
Miller (23-24) - EP (22-23) - Boeser (20-21)
Horvat (22-23) - Kesler (12-13) - Garland (24-25)
Joshua (23-24) - Blueger (24-25) - Sherwood (24-25)

HM: 22-23 Kuzmenko, 17-18 Dorsett, 18-19 Roussel pre-injury, 14-15 Brad Richardson, 13-14 Santorelli, 24-25 DeBrusk, 21-22 Motte, 19-20 Toffoli, 12-13 Hansen, 23-24 Lindholm

Hughes (24-25) - Hronek (23-24)
Edler - Tanev (both ~2017)
Hamhuis (13-14) - Bieksa (12-13)

No HMs - no one else sniffs these guys. it's such an obvious D.

Schneider (12-13)
Demko (23-24)

HM: Markstrom (19-20), Miller (one of the seasons).

Spoiler: justifications + ramble

HM list is much longer for forwards because I think there's arguments to be made about pulling different guys out and putting different guys in. Lindholm over Blueger is a big one, but I don't know, I genuinely think Blueger played better last year. I wanted to ensure there were enough righties. You could maybe make the argument that it would be smart to add one more PKer in there at the expense of Garland in the top nine. I don't think Garland fits with either of the top six lines, and maybe Hansen would be a more versatile option. Just thought his playmaking would be good for that line and that I valued that more than having another PKer.

Dorsett, Roussel as pest options who were genuinely good in those seasons listed. Maybe you roll 11 forwards and have Kuzmenko as a late game + PP option.. he scored 40 goals so not having him as an HM seemed unjust, even though there's no world where I can fit him in unless it's running 11 forwards.

Toffoli was good for us in a small sample, but the team needs speed and there's better scorers available. Richardson was good for us, but Blueger's been good on a good team -- not a fault of Richardson, but just easier to gauge. Motte played at a 3rd line level and got 3rd line results out of a line with Lammikko and Highmore on a really bad team while providing speed and energy. Santorelli was fun during a really not-fun year. Taking the youngest version of Hansen. DeBrusk small sample but is a decent two way guy who can pot some goals.

PK units Kesler - Burrows, Blueger - Sherwood.

PP units would be nuts with the old 17/14/33/22 + Hronek, and then JT, Bo, Brock, EP, and Hughes.

I think the special teams considerations were big for me. Mix of righties, lefties, guys who are actually good at the roles they're in. Faceoffs.

At evens, there's two lines I'd put in more favourable positions and two lines I'd lean towards throwing into the more defensive roles. But the top three lines all capable of dominating in the offensive zone for sustained periods and putting up points at evens.

HM list on defense.. none of the guys I thought of sniff the lineup so there isn't one. Everyone else in the lineup is way better.

HM for goalies... Markstrom was good for us, and Ryan Miller played well for us as well.

Pretty similar to mine. I ended up leaving Kes off because he was injured most of 12-13 and wasn’t quite himself in 13-14. Felt he might have prickled at being lower on the depth chart as well, though he was obviously a top 12 forward still in terms of ability.

Fair point on the righties though and that’s something Kesler adds. I ended up adding Hansen instead. I feel like even with Kes I’d keep Hansen and play Kes and Horvat as the bottom 2 centers over Blueger though. I like Blueger but I think Hansen’s just the better player and also has some chemistry with the Sedins if Burrows is slumping. I was also torn on rookie Boeser or Covid year Boeser. He was a more rounded player in ‘21 but was never the same shooter as he was as a rookie and I like that on the team given there’s a lot of more rounded players here.

For the defense, I think Garrison was really good his first year here and arguably better than Bieksa in this time period. He’s a lefty but played a lot of the right. You might be right to add Juice though as he was a natural righty and had chemistry with Hamhuis. Also had some swagger/toughness otherwise missing on the back end.

 

[StrompTroller]

Sabres will just pass on this exercise and focus on 2032....

 

[Maraz]

Gaborik-Spezza-Alfredsson
Tkachuk-Stutzle-Tarasenko
DeBrincat-Duchene-Stone
Giroux-Zibanejad-Perron

Gonchar-Karlsson
Sanderson-Zub
Methot-Chabot

Ullmark
Anderson

RHD was really an Achilles heel for Sens for over decade