It’s a slow time of the year so I thought I’d post something some might find interesting to discuss.
I heard someone discussing the all time Penguin Centers the other day, and it’s amazing how long the list is if you sit and think about it. But the top 4 for 1 squad are pretty easy:
Lemieux
Crosby
Malkin
Francis
Maybe someone has the order different? But on that team, Francis is certainly my 4th line Center.
On defense pairings, I think it’s fairly easy too and they are all HOFers, except 4 of the 6 are lefties so my 3rd pairing are both lefty shooters:
Coffey Murphy
Ulf Letang
Carlisle Gonchar
Anyone have anything different? Maybe you do, but more so on skill sets and better pairings as opposed to top 6 in Pens history.
By forward position, particularly left wing and right wing, there should be a lot of variances. The only obvious player is Jagr #1 at RW. So at RW, I have:
Jagr
Mullen
Tocchet
Recchi
Left Wing isn’t deep with HOF level players like the other positions, unless you move players from Center or RW to play on the left side:
Stevens
Guentzel
?
?
Goalkeeper is pretty easy too IMO because there is only room for 2 on a squad, so:
Barasso is my starter and Fleury is my backup.
Who you got?
I heard someone discussing the all time Penguin Centers the other day, and it’s amazing how long the list is if you sit and think about it. But the top 4 for 1 squad are pretty easy:
Lemieux
Crosby
Malkin
Francis
Maybe someone has the order different? But on that team, Francis is certainly my 4th line Center.
On defense pairings, I think it’s fairly easy too and they are all HOFers, except 4 of the 6 are lefties so my 3rd pairing are both lefty shooters:
Coffey Murphy
Ulf Letang
Carlisle Gonchar
Anyone have anything different? Maybe you do, but more so on skill sets and better pairings as opposed to top 6 in Pens history.
By forward position, particularly left wing and right wing, there should be a lot of variances. The only obvious player is Jagr #1 at RW. So at RW, I have:
Jagr
Mullen
Tocchet
Recchi
Left Wing isn’t deep with HOF level players like the other positions, unless you move players from Center or RW to play on the left side:
Stevens
Guentzel
?
?
Goalkeeper is pretty easy too IMO because there is only room for 2 on a squad, so:
Barasso is my starter and Fleury is my backup.
Who you got?