The Mike Milbury Memorial What Could Have Been Thread

[mja]

Make the best (as of right now, not that player's entire career) full line-up of currently active players that your team let go, one way or another. The team HAD to have had possession of said player. It can't be a draft pick they traded away that turned into a player. (I'm giving Milbury a break on Spezza).

I'll start off:

Williams Sharp Knuble
Prospal Umberger Lupul
Upshall Langkow Recchi
Brind'amour Handzus Zubrus

Pitkanen Eaton
Johnsson Seidenberg
Jones Alberts

Niitymaki
Biron

[Flames Fanatic]

Man, the Islanders are going to cry with this thread once they see their roster.

[Attack Llama]

Shouldn't someone be, you know, DEAD before they have a "memorial" something made in their name?

[jax00]

Penner - McDonald - Bertuzzi
Kunitz - Morrison - Tangradi
Moen -Pahlsson - R.Nidermayer
May - Weight- Thornton

Pronger - Beauchemin
O'Donnell - Huskins
Montador - Smid

[Alfredsson11]

Chara?

This thread doesn't really prove that Milbury was a bad GM.

EDIT: Clearly I don't know how to read..

[Phaneufed]

Tanguay-Savard-St.Louis
Huselius-Drury-Cammalleri
Bertuzzi-Lombardi-Stillman
Reinprecht-Nylander-Nolan

ex: Kobasew, Niedermayer

Hamrlik-Wideman
Lydman-Morris
Commodore-Stuart

ex: Montador, Aucoin, Leopold

Giguere
Anderson
Roloson

[AOWRanger]

Originally Posted by jax00

Penner - McDonald - Bertuzzi
Kunitz - Morrison - Tangradi
Moen -Pahlsson - R.Nidermayer
May - Weight- Thornton

Pronger - Beauchemin
O'Donnell - Huskins
Montador - Smid

That seems more like a 2006 ducks roster than a milbury roster

[Ziggy Stardust]

Avery-Jokinen-Cammalleri
O'Sullivan-Reinprecht/Lang-J.Blake
Moulson-Conroy/Belanger-Kostopoulos/Laperriere
Tambellini/Ellis/Lundmark-Steckel/Smithson/Boyle-Parros/Jackman

Timonen/Gleason-R.Blake
Quincey-Visnovsky
Grebeshkov/Lilja/Sydor-Corvo/Sopel/Preissing

Huet
Valiquette/Legace/Garon

[struckbyaparkedcar]

Bernier-Briere-Dumont
Zubrus-Drury-Kotalik
Paille-Moore-Afinogenov
Begin-Peca-Pyatt

Hejda-Campbell
Ballard-Wideman
Spacek-Sarich

Biron
Roloson

Not a bad team.

[Mr Bugg]

The Oilers haven't given away a whole lot of talent- Whitney, Satan, Rucinsky, Vyborny and Maltby. Devereaux never really improved after he left.

However, the Draft is a different story. This is the 'within five picks' team:

Keith Tkachuk-Mike Richards-Shane Doan
Ray Whitney-Jeff O'Neill-Alexei Kovalev
Adam Graves-Travis Zajac (6 picks)-Daniel Briere
Stephane Matteau-Boyd Gordon-Pat Flatley

Sergei Gonchar-Brooks Orpik
Robyn Regehr (6 picks)-Mike Green
Barret Jackman-Scott Hannan (9 picks)
Ruslan Salei

Olaf Kolzig
Sean Burke

[Fire Therrien]

Kovalev-Straka-Jagr
Malone-Lang-Hossa
Armstrong-Moore-Morozov
Ruutu-Zigomanis-Laraque

Whitney-Roszival
Scuderi-Gill
Kasparitis-Melichar

Lalime
Conklin


The current team has strengths in center and goal, and good defense, but with absolutely no offense from the wing. The cast off team has incredible wing talent, and... that's about it.

[Stjonnypopo]

Originally Posted by Phaneufed

Tanguay-Savard-St.Louis
Huselius-Drury-Cammalleri
Bertuzzi-Lombardi-Stillman
Reinprecht-Nylander-Nolan

ex: Kobasew, Niedermayer

Hamrlik-Wideman
Lydman-Morris
Commodore-Stuart

ex: Montador, Aucoin, Leopold

Giguere
Anderson
Roloson

This one gets my vote.

Edit: The post on top of mine is my new vote, sorry Phaneufed

[God]

Naslund - Morrison - Bertuzzi
Pyatt - Chubarov - Bulis
Schaefer - Green - Keane
Brashear - Ritchie - Carter

Ohlund - Jovanovski
Allen - Sopel
Krajicek - Malik

Auld
Noronen

slim pickings

[Koivu11]

Tanguay - Ribeiro - Kovalev
Samsonov - Grabovski - Ryder
Higgins - Koivu - Zubrus
Recchi - Lang - Begin

Streit - Komisarek
Souray - Beauchemin
Hainsey - Robidas

Huet
Theodore

[Doug Height]

A thread like this pops up on the isles board atleast once a month.

[Stjonnypopo]

Originally Posted by Koivu11

Tanguay - Ribeiro - Kovalev
Samsonov - Grabovski - Ryder
Higgins - Koivu - Zubrus
Recchi - Lang - Begin

Streit - Komisarek
Souray - Beauchemin
Hainsey - Robidas

Huet
Theodore

wicked top-4 D, though I would put Koivu on the second line, gotta have respect bro, and when we let go of Recchi he was a lot better

[Elias2662]

Sullivan-Gomez-Gionta
Sykora-Arnott-Guerin
Brylin-Madden-Kozlov
Rupp-Morrison-Asham

Niedermayer-Rafalski
Mitchell-Souray
Commodore-Hale

Clemmensen
Weekes

Pretty good team, outside of the goalies. Although as we saw last year, that duo can hold up a team for 40 games or so

[Jee]

Tanguay - Ribeiro - Kovalev
Higgins - Koivu - Grabovski
Zubrus - Conroy - Ryder
Brashear - Lang - Kostopoulos
HM: Recchi, Samsonov

Souray - Streit
Komisarek - Beauchemin
Hainsey - Robidas
HM: Rivet

Vokoun
Huet
HM: Théodore

[Dogkota]

edit: misread topic

[mrhockey193195]

I'll give my best shot for the Rangers:

Antropov-Savard-Kovalev
Dawes-Gomez-Prucha
Dupuis-Cullen-Sykora
Sjostrom-Betts-Samuelsson

HM: Nylander, D. Moore, Dvorak, Ortmeyer, Korpikoski


de Vries - Zubov
Tyutin - Mara
Poti - Morris

HM: Strudwick


Weekes
Labarbera

[Krejci46]

At first I thought it was going to be a good team but then I realized how old our team has been that the majority of our players from more than 3 years ago have retired by now. Some good RWs though.

Samsonov-Thornton-Kessel
Rolston-Metropolit-Boyes [TSN says Rolston plays all 3 forward positions and I can't find anybody else]
Kobasew-Hilbert-Knuble
Donovan-Nokelainen-Versteeg

Gonchar-Staios
Montador-O'Donnell
Boynton-Hnidy

Raycroft
Auld

[estevao]

I wanna see a Sharks version of this. Matt Carle clearly doesn't count.

[sarge88]

Bruins


Knuble - Thornton - Kessel
Samsonov - Rolston - Guerin
Kobasew - Lang - Boyes
Orr - Pahlsson - Versteeg


Stuart - Boynton
Mara - Jurcina
Gill - Alberts

Anderson
Raycroft

[sarge88]

Originally Posted by Krejci46

At first I thought it was going to be a good team but then I realized how old our team has been that the majority of our players from more than 3 years ago have retired by now. Some good RWs though.

Samsonov-Thornton-Kessel
Rolston-Metropolit-Boyes [TSN says Rolston plays all 3 forward positions and I can't find anybody else]
Kobasew-Hilbert-Knuble
Donovan-Nokelainen-Versteeg

Gonchar-Staios
Montador-O'Donnell
Boynton-Hnidy

Raycroft
Auld

I forgot Gonchar and a few others are different but the core seems the same as mine.

[izzo]

Most of Mike's damage was done for players now out of the league, but we can get half a team out of active players.

Dumont-Jokinen-Bertuzzi
Pyatt-Connolly-Torres

Chara-McCabe
Brewer-Redden
Berard-Schneider

Luongo

Keep in mind that he also traded away the Spezza pick for Yashin (with Chara), that he passed on Heatley/Gaborik to take DiPietro, etc. Plus, he was forced to salary dump Palffy back in the day, although that ended up fetching Jokinen.