What would the Leafs look like in a six-team NHL?

Disclaimer: this was written in late 2009, so I don't know if it was posted before, but it's August and my first fanshot
Le Grand Club (Montreal) celebrated the Habs' centennial by imagining what a six-team league would be like with today's players. Each original six team gets to keep three of their own players, and then conducts a draft to pick the rest of their roster. The original three:
Tomas Kaberle, Phil Kessel, Francois Beauchemin
The new additions:
Sidney Crosby, Dion Phaneuf (article written before The Trade), John Tavares, Anze Kopitar, Jay Bouwmeester, Miikka Kiprusoff, Ryan Smyth, Brad Richards, Daniel Sedin, Henrik Sedin, Milan Hejduk, Ales Hemsky, Erik Johnson, Dustin Penner, Niklas Kronwall, Steve Mason, Maxime Talbot
How would this team do? What team would you put up for the Leafs and the other teams?
Here's the original article if anyone wants to read French.

almost 2 years ago Leafer87 10 comments 0 recs |

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Sooo

Kopitar – Crosby – Kessel
D. Sedin – H. Sedin – R. Smyth
Hejduk – B. Richards – Penner
Hemsky – Tavares – Talbot (one of these is not like the other)

Kaberle – Phaneuf
Bouwmeister – E. Johnson
Beauchemin – Kronwall

S. Mason

That’s unfortunate goaltending, but holy shit on Fwds.

There's always money in the banana stand.
A drinking team with a hockey problem.

by nhlcheapshot on Aug 20, 2010 8:05 AM EDT reply actions

Oops

Kiprusoff
S. Mason

Much better.

There's always money in the banana stand.
A drinking team with a hockey problem.

by nhlcheapshot on Aug 20, 2010 8:06 AM EDT up reply actions

I’m not very happy with the goaltending either (although Kipper is an improvement on Mason), but yeah I love the forwards

"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience... hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive." - Stephen Leacock.

by Leafer87 on Aug 20, 2010 9:52 AM EDT up reply actions

Kopitar – Crosby – Kessel

To paraphrase DGB, the biggest risk here would be shoulder injuries caused by raising arms in celebration after scoring on every shift.

by Be26 on Aug 20, 2010 6:36 PM EDT up reply actions

shoulder surgeries FTW!

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Albert Einstein

by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 20, 2010 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions

While we’re at it, why don’t we open a similarly sized can of worms by asking “What would the outcome of WWII be if Hitler hadn’t been a raving made lunatic?”

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by CanadianMaple09 on Aug 20, 2010 11:48 AM EDT reply actions

my Guess

Everyone in Europe would have German as their first language?

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Albert Einstein

by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Aug 20, 2010 12:06 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s August and I thought it was cool

"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience... hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive." - Stephen Leacock.

by Leafer87 on Aug 20, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions

it is cool! And the original article is helping me pass the time and brush up on my french so thank you!

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by Fergus30 on Aug 22, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions

no prob :)

"Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience... hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive." - Stephen Leacock.

by Leafer87 on Aug 22, 2010 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions