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"All Hurricane" team?

Pucking Lamplighter

Pucking Lamplighter

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So, here's a little food for thought and for an argument's sake kind of discussion that struck me as I was driving back to the office today; If you could put together an "All Hurricane" team of any players who wore the sightless eye from any season (No Whalers, unless they came over in the move), who would you put out there and why? I'm still mulling over players in my mind and don't have a final roster assembled yet. I'm also going several lines deep, since there's more than six players that come to mind. I'd be curious to see who makes the cut and why.

I'm also considering a one line "futility roster" of players who were lucky to have had a job and were probably in over their heads, yet we got to see them play anyway.

Jim
 
Do you need to have a fourth line of fourth line type players? Or D? Or do you load up the 4 best centers and 6 best D for example?
 
Sami Kapanen, Tuomo Ruutu, Joni Pitkanen, Sebastian Aho, Teuvo Teravainen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Antii Raanta, Jussi Jokanen, Seth Jarvis.
 
We talking full team here? Or just a starting lineup? Because if it's the former, I'm cheating on position assignments like a mofo.
 
Starting Lineup

Forwards
Aho, E Staal, Brind'Amour

Francis would go here except that Brindy had a longer period of high impact. Ronnie really only had three full seasons at his best in his second stint with the franchise.

Defense
Slavin, Wesley

I'm aware that nobody's running the power play. Name me anybody who was anywhere near their peak and I'll listen patiently and explain why you're wrong.

Goal
Irbe

Peak Irbe from 1998 through 2002 was better than anybody else's 3-4 season stretch even if some other guy won a big trophy.
 
Your net minder has to be Jack Lafontaine, which is saying something for a team that’s sent out two EBUGs. Maybe Scott Darling if you’re looking for someone with a little more term.

Are we gonna have a coaching staff and front office too?
 
Run with whatever grabs you. I'd sort of like to see a whole team. One line's kinda easy. Mine's not ready yet, as I'm still sifting through rosters.

BTW JB, I'd vote Steve Chaisson as PP quarterback. The team wasn't much then, but he had a quality outside shot and could deal the puck better than most to ever play that position for the Hurricanes.

Eric Fichaud wins the futility netminder hands down. He was more like a mannequin with a blocker. Give him the championship belt, or sunburn cream for his neck, or something.

Jim
 
Pucking Lamplighter said:
Run with whatever grabs you. I'd sort of like to see a whole team. One line's kinda easy. Mine's not ready yet, as I'm still sifting through rosters.

BTW JB, I'd vote Steve Chaisson as PP quarterback. The team wasn't much then, but he had a quality outside shot and could deal the puck better than most to ever play that position for the Hurricanes.

Eric Fichaud wins the futility netminder hands down. He was more like a mannequin with a blocker. Give him the championship belt, or sunburn cream for his neck, or something.

Jim
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Eric Fichaud can at least claim that the Hurricanes won 3 games with him in the net.

If we're talking futility, Jamie Storr went 0-8-2 in 14 legendary games for the Canes.

Also, Steve Halko for the futility team because holding the "most games played in the NHL without scoring a goal" is not a record a player wants to have attached to them.
 
Punzil said:
Eric Fichaud can at least claim that the Hurricanes won 3 games with him in the net.

If we're talking futility, Jamie Storr went 0-8-2 in 14 legendary games for the Canes.

Also, Steve Halko for the futility team because holding the "most games played in the NHL without scoring a goal" is not a record a player wants to have attached to them.
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Captain Toast. Despite the fact that I never played and can barely skate straight, I was on the bench with him during Jr. Hurricanes tryouts one year. He picked the dman pairs and all I had to do was keep track of who was on the ice and for how long so I could change them.
 
Pucking Lamplighter said:
Eric Fichaud wins the futility netminder hands down. He was more like a mannequin with a blocker. Give him the championship belt, or sunburn cream for his neck, or something.
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Fichaud stunk but he at least looked like he knew what he was supposed to be doing. The worst looking goalie for this team for my money was Pat DesRochers*. 6'4" of nothing but spare parts held together with bailing wire. He moved around the crease like somebody had put a chicken in his pants.

*when I checked HockeyDB to make sure I wasn't hallucinating on his last name I was floored to see that the Coyotes wasted a first round pick on the guy. Holy crap. Did they just not scout at all?
 
Here's a stab at a full team with a minimum of 200 games payed for position players and 75 for goalies. I'm going with two offensive lines, one checking line and one grunt line (guys who actually played 4th line roles for good chunks of their service time) up front and three balanced pairs on D. One starting goalie, and one guy who was primarily a backup

Forwards

Aho/E Staal/Whitney ... yeah, I'm moving the franchise's best offensive producer to wing. It might actually be his best position. Otherwise this is the franchise's two best offensive forwards with the franchise's best setup winger.

Roberts/Francis/O'Neill ... who says no? Roberts to knock heads, Francis to set 'em up, O'Neill to knock 'em down. The best in all three categories in Canes history.

Williams/Brind'Amour/Cole ... hidden benefit in that this line actually played together some. Leaving some really, really good checking forwards off this team

Ranheim/Manderville/Fast ... ultimate Canes 4th line. No goons, all grunt.

Defense

Slavin/Pesce ... still the most statistically significant pairing the Canes have had in modern times. They not only suppress chances against, they also max out chances for despite not being particularly offensive minded themselves.

Wesley/Hill ... Wesley paired with a lot of soup cans, but Hill might be the best fit and we need a PP shooter

Hedican/Faulk ... Faulk gets the nod here because we need another right shot, but honestly I think this pairing would absolutely sing.


Goalies

Irbe and Weekes
 
andyt said:
Captain Toast. Despite the fact that I never played and can barely skate straight, I was on the bench with him during Jr. Hurricanes tryouts one year. He picked the dman pairs and all I had to do was keep track of who was on the ice and for how long so I could change them.
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I’ve played in a few pick up games with Halko. He scored multiple goals in each1
 
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