All-time Habs team

[GrandWazoo]

Desharnais

Ah, the great Pocket Pocket.

 

[Sal_Butera]

Richard-Beliveau-Lafleur

Robinson-Justin Barron

Roy

Discuss.

Fixed

 

[Habsy]

Harvey was one the first defensemen to rush the puck and control the play with his skating and passing. He led the league in scoring for D many years.

I was mostly comparing him to Orr for his ability to rush the puck and control the game with his skating, not for his offensive output. But Harvey had offense and defense, just not Orr's level of offense, you don't win 7 Norris by just playing defense.

Norris used to go to best D man. Not best offensive D man

 

[Habsy]

I just love to bring up the most forgotten Habs great of all time.

Howie Morenz? Newsie Lalonde? Sprague Cleghorn? Auriel Joliat? Georges Vezina?

 

[GrandWazoo]

Norris used to go to best D man. Not best offensive D man

Except for a few rare exceptions, the winner was almost always among the leaders in points as well.

 

[Rolex]

Richard-Beliveau-Morenz

Harvey-Robinson

Plante


Savard could possibly have been better than Robinson, if not for his knee injuries.

coin toss between Morenz/Lafleur.........but Morenz was just as big, if not bigger than Lafleur in his time. And Lafleur was better surrounded...


Best Hab of all time is Beliveau for me....but media puts The Rocket ahead of Beliveau because of his influence on Quebec society

 

[Rolex]

Norris used to go to best D man. Not best offensive D man

Harvey won 7 Norris.....7......

To put that in perspective, in same time, the Rocket won 1 Hart only, no Art Ross.....Harvey was the best....and i have him as the second best dmen of all time behind Orr....

 

[GrandWazoo]

Howie Morenz? Newsie Lalonde? Sprague Cleghorn? Auriel Joliat? Georges Vezina?

If you want to go 100 years ago, you probably have an argument for Lalonde. Cleghom only played a few seasons for us. Morenz, Joliat and Vézina are well known in comparison.

 

[Sal_Butera]

If you want to go 100 years ago, you probably have an argument for Lalonde. Cleghom only played a few seasons for us. Morenz, Joliat and Vézina are well known in comparison.

Lalonde is the greatest Hab forward ever - 7-scoring titles not surpassed till Gretzky. 3rd all time behind Gretzky & Lemieux for PPG

 

[lecoqsportif]

Price?

Peak Price was probably the most dominant goalie on the planet over the last two decades. Vasilevskiy is his only peer, IMO. Best since Hasek.

What a waste. And that bloody Kreider.

 

[LesCanadiens]

Rocket-Beliveau-Lafleur

Robinson - Harvey

Plante

 

[Habsy]

If you want to go 100 years ago, you probably have an argument for Lalonde. Cleghom only played a few seasons for us. Morenz, Joliat and Vézina are well known in comparison.

Doesn't "all time" include 100 years ago?

 

[Habsy]

Peak Price was probably the most dominant goalie on the planet over the last two decades. Vasilevskiy is his only peer, IMO. Best since Hasek.

What a waste. And that bloody Kreider.

All they had to do was draft him, like they should have.

 

[Habsy]

And a hat tip to Henri, 11 cups will never be broken

 

[Rolex]

And a hat tip to Henri, 11 cups will never be broken

oldest captain to win the cup, no ?

 

[Krustchev]

Chelios won a Nortis with the Habs too, and unlike Harvey, it was not in a six team league. You guys are forgetting how great he was with us in his 6 seasons. Also part of our worst trade ever.

 

[CH1]

Let’s make a best team of worst trades

 

[CH1]

My team (off the top of my head)

Lemieux - Turgeon - LeClair
Langway — Chelios
Roy

 

[Krustchev]

Let’s make a best team of worst trades

We need some topics to kill another seven weeks.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

My team (off the top of my head)

Lemieux - Turgeon - LeClair
Langway — Chelios
Roy

We won Cups with the players we acquired for Langway (who forced a trade because he wanted to play in the US) and Chelios.

Chelios won zero Cups in Chicago and Langway and the Caps never got past the second round.