Ballisticsports. Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) Not fair to pretend these guys are a Presidents Cup team , as they haven't proven it like our Best Teams ever did, but I see some similarities I just found it interesting to see how our lineup today compares to that one (granted the game and style needed to win has changed since then too) Daniel Hank Samuelsson Raymond Kesler Burrows Schaefer /Torres Lapierre Glass Tambellini/ Higgins/ Hansen Bolduc Desbiens/ Oreskovich Salo Bieska Hamhuis/ Edler Ehroff Rome Tanev/ Albert Luongo Schneider Coach AV ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Miller EP Boeser Pearson Bo Motte/ Gaudette Leivo/ Roussel Sutter Virtanen Schaller/ Ferland Beagle Eriksson Edler Myers Hughes Tanev Fatenberg/ Benn Stecher Markstrom Demko Coach Green Edited November 7, 2019 by ba;;isticsports added coaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Where's Wellwood Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I would remove Schaefer, Tambellini, Bolduc, and Desbiens from the Best team and add Malholtra 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silky mitts Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 5 minutes ago, Where's Wellwood said: I would remove Schaefer, Tambellini, Bolduc, and Desbiens from the Best team and add Malholtra This. Malholtra was huge as 3C 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silky mitts Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) Also Hammer was top pairing with juice. Very effective one at that . And come on , it was burrows with the sedins . Edited November 7, 2019 by Silky mitts 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalie13 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 They're getting there, but one thing that team had over the current team is experience. Give them a few years, and then I think it will be a fair comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberts Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 30 minutes ago, Silky mitts said: And come on , it was burrows with the sedins . how dare they mess up the legendary line! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewbieCanuckFan Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 If you have Salo as your #5, you are pretty deep on the blueline. We aren't there yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Danny, Hank, Kes, and Lou were the core of that team. Who from that D was the core piece? I see us having Danny, Hank, Kes, and Lou covered with the current young core guys, plus we have Hughes, which that 2011 team didn't. Maybe this team is actually better, but plays in a tougher division that that old 2011 one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yung1 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Daniel Hank Burrows Raymond Kesler Samuelsson Torres Malholtra Hansen Higgins Lapierre Tambellni Hamhuis Bieska Edler Ehroff Salo Tanev/ Alberts/ Ballard Luongo Schneider Coach AV This year we have a much better bottom 6 than that team. Top 6 is almost there, but hard to give them an edge when you tak 40 goal Kes into account. 2011 defense much deeper but our defense this year is solid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRypien37 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Your lines for 2011 are completely out of wack. Not what they were. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrockBoester Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Title should have been "Comparing the 2011 team to a team like that" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yung1 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 26 minutes ago, Alflives said: Danny, Hank, Kes, and Lou were the core of that team. Who from that D was the core piece? I see us having Danny, Hank, Kes, and Lou covered with the current young core guys, plus we have Hughes, which that 2011 team didn't. Maybe this team is actually better, but plays in a tougher division that that old 2011 one? Edler/Bieksa/Hamhuis imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeanBeef Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Iirc Sedin-Sedin-Burrows Raymond-Kessler-Samuelsson Torres-Malhotra-Hansen Higgins-Lapierre-Oreskovich/Glass Tambellini Bolduc Edler-Ehrhoff/Salo Hamhuis-Bieksa Ballard/Alberts-Salo/Ehrhoff(only playing here if Alberts was on the L) Tanev Luongo Schneider Our D was so deep. Imagine if Ballard played like he did before getting to Van... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 12 minutes ago, Yung1 said: Edler/Bieksa/Hamhuis imo. Edler? The other two are good players, but I wouldn't classify them as core (irreplaceable) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 27 minutes ago, Yung1 said: Daniel Hank Burrows Raymond Kesler Samuelsson Torres Malholtra Hansen Higgins Lapierre Tambellni Hamhuis Bieska Edler Ehroff Salo Tanev/ Alberts/ Ballard Luongo Schneider Coach AV This year we have a much better bottom 6 than that team. Top 6 is almost there, but hard to give them an edge when you tak 40 goal Kes into account. 2011 defense much deeper but our defense this year is solid. I read your post and I crave an ice cream cone. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yung1 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 19 minutes ago, Alflives said: Edler? The other two are good players, but I wouldn't classify them as core (irreplaceable) I would. were they replaced when they left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alflives Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Yung1 said: I would. were they replaced when they left? They were old when they left, and easily replaced. Core to me are players who are not replaceable, because they are not so easy to get. Right now we have Petey, Bo, Bess, Hughes. The rest of our guys, although good players, can be replaced. From that 2011 team the Twins, Kess, and Loui were great and not replaceable. Edler I think was not really a guy who was replaceable too. As for Bieksa and Hamhuis, there were a lot of D men in the league at that time we could have replaced those two with. Edited November 7, 2019 by Alflives 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yung1 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 1 minute ago, Alflives said: They were old when they left, and easily replaced. Core to me are players who are not replaceable, because they are not so easy to get. Right now we have Petey, Bo, Bess, Hughes. The rest of our guys, although good players, can be replaced. From that 2011 team the Twins, Kess, and Loui were great and not replaceable. Edler I think was not really a guy who was replaceable too. As for Bieksa and Hamhuis, there were a lot of D men in the league at that time we could have replaced those two with. True that they were old by the time they left, but I'd argue their declined coincided with the decline of our team. Bieksa with a 40 point shut down defenseman with snarl. Extremely hard to find. Hamhuis was one of the best defensive defensmen in the league. We had the lowest GAA in the league with them as our shut down pairing. They were huge. I would argue we still haven't replaced them, and that they were far superior to our current shut down pairing of Myers and Edler, who are the best performing shut down pairing we've had since 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 This team is simply deeper. No disrespect to the 2011 team but they just had less cap space available to them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shiznak Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 While they didn’t accomplish much, I still prefer the 2003 team as the most fun to watch. Naslund - Morrison - Bertuzzi D. Sedin - H. Sedin - Klatt/Linden Cooke - Chubarov - Linden/Letowski Ruutu - Lindgren/Linden - Langdon/Linden Ohlund - Malik Jovanovski - Sopel Salo - Baron Allen 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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