Poll: If you could pick any 20 players to start an NHL franchise with.

[Guest blueadams]

And 3m over the cap. Lol

That's just the bonuses given to the red wings I cut to clear the roster; didn't realize there was that button to hit at the top of the page.

Your team is 98% offence. Only a handful of your guys can play actual defence. But that's cool if that's the way you like it.

It's not.

Quick is the best goalie in hockey. Crosby is one of the best defensive forwards in the league. Brown is a great defensive forward. That entire fourth line is solid defensively - Sheahan, Andersson, Abdelkader (and, of course, as I said, I'm sure there are other young players I'm not familiar with on other rosters at similar salaries who would be more suitable). Doughty's great in his own zone. Pietrangelo's great in his own zone. DeKeyser's great in his own zone. Letang, Karlsson and Shattenkirk are all underrated in their own zone.

Don't give me 98% bs.

[Guest blueadams]

Cap-space aside - - - as was the original intention of this thread - - - this is the 23 man roster I'd start a team with (now that I've put some more serious thought into it):

A. Ovechkin-S. Crosby-E. Malkin
S. Stamkos-J. Toews-J. Neal
C. Giroux-A. Kopitar-P. Kane
T. Seguin-J. Tavares-T. Hall
R. N-Hopkins, J. Eberle

S. Weber-E. Karlsson
A. Pietrangelo-D. Doughty

O. E-Larsson-K. Letang
K. Shattenkirk

J. Quick
C. Price

...I challenge anyone to find fault with that roster.

Edited May 29, 2013 by blueadams

[stillwater 186]

You win ... you're awesome.

[Solidus 6]

Can I just pick the 2002 Wings team?

[stillwater 186]

Nash - Datsyuk - Zetterberg

St.Louis - E. Staal - Benn

Vanek - Couture - Kessel

Parise - Begeron - Lucic

Subban - Suter

Keith - Hjalmarsson

Kronwall - McDonagh

Lundqvist and Howard

Edited May 30, 2013 by stillwater

[Guest blueadams]

Nash - Datsyuk - Zetterberg

St.Louis - E. Staal - Benn

Vanek - Couture - Kessel

Parise - Begeron - Lucic

Subban - Suter

Keith - Hjalmarsson

Kronwall - McDonagh

Lundqvist and Howard

That's an old team. I'll leave my commentary at that.

[kipwinger 8,522]

My team is cap compliant, has a good mix of youngsters and veterans, it can't be scored on, it puts up goals, and you would DEFINITELY not want to cross the blueline against it...

Lucic, Backes, Doan

E. Kane, Carter, A. Stewart

Abby, Helm, C. Neil

Kaleta, B. Boyle, Clutterbuck

Kronwall-Orpik

Dekeyser-Wisniewski

Yemelin-Volchenkov

Vokoun

Mrazek

Blueadams, my team would eat yours for lunch.

[TheDetroitRedWings 286]

Cap-space aside - - - as was the original intention of this thread - - - this is the 23 man roster I'd start a team with (now that I've put some more serious thought into it):

A. Ovechkin-S. Crosby-E. Malkin

S. Stamkos-J. Toews-J. Neal

C. Giroux-A. Kopitar-P. Kane

T. Seguin-J. Tavares-T. Hall

R. N-Hopkins, J. Eberle

S. Weber-E. Karlsson

A. Pietrangelo-D. Doughty

O. E-Larsson-K. Letang

K. Shattenkirk

J. Quick

C. Price

...I challenge anyone to find fault with that roster.

Dude are you serious? Pavel is EASILY a top 5 player in the league if not top 3. Please place the pipe down and walk away. Epic fail

[Guest blueadams]

Dude are you serious? Pavel is EASILY a top 5 player in the league if not top 3. Please place the pipe down and walk away. Epic fail

He has, what, 5 years left? R. N-Hopkins might have 20.

[dirtydangles 1,328]

Cap-space aside - - - as was the original intention of this thread - - - this is the 23 man roster I'd start a team with (now that I've put some more serious thought into it):

A. Ovechkin-S. Crosby-E. Malkin

S. Stamkos-J. Toews-J. Neal

C. Giroux-A. Kopitar-P. Kane

T. Seguin-J. Tavares-T. Hall

R. N-Hopkins, J. Eberle

S. Weber-E. Karlsson

A. Pietrangelo-D. Doughty

O. E-Larsson-K. Letang

K. Shattenkirk

J. Quick

C. Price

...I challenge anyone to find fault with that roster.

IF we are splitting hairs and trying to find problems I would say my only problem is that you have mostly RH dmen. That is all.