LHH Tournament Of Legends

…are hangin’ low. His second line is comprised of three of my favorite Islanders, but I don’t think they’d be very productive…. Nielsen, however, would have plenty of protection for his DARK SIDE.

Chico, Hrudey, and Osgood left behind for DP and Hextall?

That boy can draft

1.1 Mike Bossy – F firepower extreme
2.1 Clark Gillies – F grit and firepower
3.1 John Tonelli – F grit and the ultimate forechecker
4.1 Bob Nystrom – F grit, detremination and key goals
5.1 Zdeno Chara – D 9’ 10" (lol) can anyone get by him? NO
6.1 Roberto Luongo – G OK, I would take Billy Smith, money man!
7.1 Butch Goring – F speed, grit and scoring
8.1 Bob Bourne – F speed, speed, and more speed with scoring
9.1 Vladimir Malakhov – D OK, decent enough
10.1 Billy Harris – F good scoring
11.1 Olli Jokinen – F godd scoring
12.1 Duane Sutter – F tough forechecker and two way forward
13.1 Ryan Smyth – F OK, park him in front of the net and watch him score
14.1 Wendell Clark – F Ah, OK I guess
15.1 Dave Volek – F speed,
16.1 Bryan McCabe – D Good D-man, good point man on the PP
17.1 Mathieu Schnieder – good point man on the PP
18.1 Eric Brewer – D Huh?
19.1 Tom Poti – D Huh?

I don’t see enough toughness on Mdelbags’ squad to match this line-up.
Fire Garth Snow’s squad wins 5-2.

Fire Garth Snow

and

ChrisMC

That could change some things: making Lu and Chara worse then they are, etc.

it’s appropriate that Pretty Good Idiot has Palffy on his team, doncha think?

For mdelbags: down the middle of Tavares, Nielsen, full-career Weight, plus Turgeon? Sandpaper from the wings with Scatch, LaPointe, Okposo — and oh yeah Bertuzzi and Guerin, too? That gets my vote, with an alright defense being bailed out by Battlin Billy. Oh, to see that lineup on the ice.

The other one was much harder for me. ChrisMC’s offense versus PGI’s defense. In the end I go with ChrisMC but I don’t feel very good about it, because I think PGI’s D and two-way centers could shut those guys down in any given series.

Fun exercise. Makes me want to sim some EA year-whatever.

I think Guerin with the 19th pick by Mdelbags. Although he has a lot of later picks that you could consider steals: Weight, Bertuzzi, etc.

 I’ll take the offense of Fire Garth Snow over the weaker defense and goal tending of CrisMC. ( although it beaks my heart as Cris took my second favorite Isle in Anders Kallur) Mdelbags very strong defense and just enough offense to get by PGI. Sorry PGI, Denis and Gord can’t log enough ice ice time to save you!
 Finals- Wow! Fire Garth Snows very potent offense versus Mdlelbags stingy D. Garth has my number 1 Isle in Gillies, but Mark has Smith with two l"s. Figure a 7 overtime thriller with Mark on top, just because Garth doesn’t need to be fired and he made me type it twice in this post! ;)

I have a big beak, although it breaks my heart to admit it.

could never be a 2nd line center when Peca and Linden are below him.
Considering these players are taken at their prime ?

Yes, I’m older, so I went with more 70’s and 80’s. as Mark said. And being older, I had my biases…like I could never stand Ken Morrow! I’ll take Bourne and Goring over Tavares and Nielsen for one reason. The latter haven’t HAD their prime yet, at least hopefully. Goring gave them the 2 way center they needed to take the pressure off Bossy, Trots and Gillies, and was no slouch before coming to NY… Actually the 2nd line on that team was Nystrom, Goring, and Tonelli. Nobody is beating up anybody on my team with Gillies and Nystrom. Malakhov had 2 solid season for NY 52 and 57 points. Close to Streit numbers, no? And was better defensively. I was short a center for 3rd line.
 
Couldn’t get Smith, so I had to ‘settle’ for Luongo. I did base most (80%+) of my list on Isles careers, hence Poti with 44 points in the one season he played, and not including Henning, who had become a PK specialist in NY with Westfall, Weight or Guerin…… such is life.

I set this up they way I do my current fantasy drafts. I usually save D-men for last. Brewer was an All-Star at one point, so not complaining.

Since I’m voting for myself, as far as the other match-up, gonna go with ChrisMC based on top line and pre “I’ve Fallen And I Can’t Get Up” DiPietro. Too bad, he was improving every year before that damn Skills competition.

Thanks for doing this Mark. I’ll be in next time

It breaks my heart to vote against a team with Turgeon, Nielsen, Streit and KJ, but FGS has the missing piece of the puzzle, so he automatically wins the Stanley Cup four times in a row. (It doesn’t work that way?)

The other pairing is closer. ChrisMC’s team seems more balanced. And Czerk was part of the only trade where You-Know-Who screwed anybody (though it didn’t appear that way at the time). On the other hand, Heward had the decency to chose the right team when he came in Switzerland. Czerk, not so much. But I’ll still go with ChrisMC.

LaFontaine and Czerkawski, so I’ve gotta go with him, even if it would scare the crap out of me to have DiPi as my goalie without any backups…

the way I ranked players was on their best season, so if we went that way, this would be my teams stats at the end of the season:

Forwards:
Pat Lafontaine 53-95-148 +11
Bryan Trottier 47-87-134 +76
Brent Sutter 42-60-102 +42
Alexei Yashin 44-50-94 +16
Ray Ferraro 40-40-80 +25
Mikko Makela 36-40-76 +14
J.P. Parise 27-48-75
Miroslav Satan 37-36-73 +14
Mariusz Czerkawski 35-35-70 -16
Anders Kallur 36-28-64 +25
Patrick Flatley 18-34-52 +20
Trent Hunter 25-26-51 +23

Defense
Tom Kurvers 16-50-66 +11
Doug Crossman 15-44-59 +3
Jeff Norton 12-38-50 -3
Tomas Jonsson 13-35-48 +40
Adrian Aucoin 13-31-44 +29
Gerald Diduck 11-21-32 +9

And Ricky would have had a 2.58 GAA, .919 Sv %, and 5 Shutouts

so even if I dont win this, if this team took the ice today they probably win the presidents cup.