Re: TSN's CDN All-Time teams
Originally Posted by
rataylor22
Considering I don't consider the Flames to have a rich history of elite players, this is actually prettyy tough. The checking line portion is also pretty difficult because I don't necessarily know how to classify some of the players from the 80s but here goes.
Gaudreau-Nieuwendyk-Iginla
Roberts-Gilmour-Fleury
Tkachuk-Nilsson-Mullen
Patterson-Otto-Peplinski (checking line)
Suter-MacInnis
Reinhart-Hamilton
Giordano-Regehr (shutdown pair)
Kiprusoff
Vernon
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Couple comments. I tried my best to stick to LW, RW, LD, RD, only breaking on the checking line and shutdown pair. If you didn't stick to strict positional designations, can easily argue Loob or Makarov would be ahead of Tkachuk. However, Tkachuk is so good defensively you easily could argue it would be valid to put him on the checking line. Shrug.
Could argue Housley ahead of Hamilton, but he shoots left. Could quibble with Giordano being on the "shutdown" pair, but he's been the best defender on the Flames for multiple seasons so I think it's fine. Regehr, IMO, is the best pure defender the Flames have ever had. Honestly do not know enough about Macoun or McCrimmon to judge whether they deserve to be on the shutdown pair instead.
Stephane Yelle was one of the best shutdown centers in the league, but he was past his prime in Calgary.
Line combos are based on who I think would play best together, as the exercise stated, but could arguably have Monahan over Gilmour. Gilmour was obviously the better player, but he wasn't necessarily the better player in Calgary.
Pretty hard to argue with that line up.
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