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Andy Pred 48

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okay folks just for a bit of fun I have been following the Wings since '85.Can you list your favourite 14 man roster that have iced for the wings since 1985. That is 9 fwds, 4d and 1 goalie. The catch is all the players must be born in different countries. Then list what would be your best starting line using the same method.

My starting line would be;

Hasek Czech Rep

Lidstrom Sweden

Larson USA

Hossa Slovakia

Yzerman Canada

Fedorov Russia.

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just me then :(

Goalie; HASEK Czech Rep

D; LIDSTROM Sweden

D; KRUPP Germany

D; SALEI Belarus

D; MYRVOLD Norway

FWDS; BROWN USA YZERMAN Canada HOSSA Slovakia

FWDS; SANDSTROM Finland FEDOROV Russia MacLEAN France

FWDS; MURSAK Slovenia BOLDIREV Yugoslavia THOMAS England.

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Sorry, Andy. First I thought that your idea was very interesting, but then... most of the players Wings have ever had on their roster are from Canada, USA, Sweden, Russia and Czech Rep. That's five countries and I'm too lazy to go and count, but it seems to me that there only about 20 players from the other countries. That's why everyone would have players like Boldirev, MacLean, Thomas and Myrvold on their team. Not much variation and room for creativity and opinions.

Anyway, here's me top 6:

Hasek

Rafalski - Lidström

Datsyuk - Yzerman - Hossa

Maybe I could've had Howe ahead of Yzerman, but I wanted to keep it on players who I've seen playing.

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I came up with a lineup that expands to players in today's game. Only one per country for each of the groups (forwards, defensemen, goaltenders). I tried only one player per country on the team but that seems impossible.

Kopitar (SVN) - Crosby (CAN) - Hossa (SVK)

Zetterberg (SWE) - Datsyuk (RUS) - Kesler (USA)

Vanek (AUT) - Koivu (FIN) - Havlat (CZE)

Zubrus (LTU) - Grabovski (BLR) - Niederreiter (CHE)

Zuccarello (NOR) - Goc (DEU)

Lidstrom (SWE) - Weber (CAN)

Chara (SVK) - Kubina (CZE)

Yandle (USA) - Volchenkov (RUS)

Timonen (FIN)

Thomas (USA) - Rinne (FIN)

**It doesn't really matter who plays with Sid as long as they have talent and can play off of Sid's game.

**Kesler doing the dirty work for Pav and Z would be siiiiiiiiiiick. Siiiiiiiiiick, I tells ya.

**Not crazy about the forward lines beyond the top six, even though that third line could be a first line on an NHL team today. I feel like the 4th line would get eaten alive more often than not. Also the reserve forwards are nothing to brag about.

**The dmen corps though would be pretty awesome for sure. The goalies too.

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