UND Alumni Fantasy Team

[FGHTNSX Hawkey14]

Ok, let's play a game to numb the pain of that loss to the Denver Pio... er... Referees. Gonna make an All Time Greatest UND Fantasy Team, consisting of the best players in North Dakota history. 4 centers, 4 left wings, 4 right wings, 6 defenseman, and 2 goalies. Let's start with goalies.

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Brock Nelson

LW:

RW:

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Aaron Dell

 

[FGHTNSX Hawkey14]

Maybe a slight bias towards more modern players.

[snova4]

G: Belfour, Goehring

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4 minutes ago, snova4 said:

G: Belfour, Goehring

While Dell has done more in his pro career, Goehring was a bit better at UND, so I'll give you that one.

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Brock Nelson

LW:

RW:

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Karl Goehring

 

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Brock Nelson

LW:

RW: T.J. Oshie

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Karl Goehring

[FGHTNSX Hawkey14]

Hockey-reference.com and Hockeydb.com are both quite helpful.

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Brock Nelson

LW:

RW: T.J. Oshie, Dave Christian, Drew Stafford, Brandon Bochenski

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Karl Goehring

 

Any objections/suggestions are welcome and appreciated. This is mostly based on the names that jump out from the list of UND Alumni that are (or were) in the NHL, and (yeah, it's a little embarrassing) the UND legends list from the siouxshop website. I run them through the hockey-reference.com player comparison to determine the order, so don't put too much stock in my rankings.

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Hello?

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Brock Nelson

LW: Zach Parise, Doug Smail, Chris Porter, Brad Malone

RW: T.J. Oshie, Dave Christian, Drew Stafford, Brandon Bochenski

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Karl Goehring

 

I felt like I was really stretching for the left wing. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[Snake]

Based on time at UND, I'd definitely have Jeff Panzer in your centers list over Brock Nelson. 

[cberkas]

Porter and Malone over Duncan? Really.

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27 minutes ago, cberkas said:

Porter and Malone over Duncan? Really.

I based it on a combination of time at UND and time in the pros and, Ryan Duncan played two games in the AHL.

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48 minutes ago, Snake said:

Based on time at UND, I'd definitely have Jeff Panzer in your centers list over Brock Nelson. 

Good point. I think Nelson has the edge on Panzer post-UND, but Panzer did put up an astonishing 81 points in 46 games during his senior year.

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C: Jonathan Toews, Tony Hrkac, Travis Zajac, Jeff Panzer 

LW: Zach Parise, Doug Smail, Chris Porter, Brad Malone

RW: T.J. Oshie, Dave Christian, Drew Stafford, Brandon Bochenski

D:

G: Ed Belfour, Karl Goehring

[burd]

Greg Johnson cannot be left off this team. 

[siouxkid12]

28 minutes ago, FGHTNSX Hawkey14 said:

I based it on a combination of time at UND and time in the pros and, Ryan Duncan played two games in the AHL.

Define pros because Ryan Duncan is playing professionally.

 

Really, lists like this are pretty dumb unless you base it purely off of their time at UND. There were some really good players that never played in the NHL or AHL.

[cberkas]

26 minutes ago, FGHTNSX Hawkey14 said:

I based it on a combination of time at UND and time in the pros and, Ryan Duncan played two games in the AHL.

Duncan won the Hobby, put up more points, and played 4 years.

Porter and Malone should be in Europe playing. If Duncan was the same height as Porter and Malone he’d be in the NHL or AHL.

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2 minutes ago, cberkas said:

Duncan won the Hobby, put up more points, and played 4 years.

Porter and Malone should be in Europe playing. If Duncan was the same height as Porter and Malone he’d be in the NHL or AHL.

The Panzer's would have been in the NHL as well had they been bigger in my opinion.

[cberkas]

If I remember right Nelson wasn’t the center on his line with Kristo and Knight.

[petey23]

Pretty tough to not include Troy Murray at Center.

and Jon Casey at Goalie.

[Walsh Hall]

Jon Casey in Goal

Others to consider"  Greg Johnson, Dixon Ward, Taylor, Sykes, Cherski, Reg Morelli, Troy Murray.

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Jim Archibald 

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THIS is more like it! Generating some discussion! I appreciate all the help. And yes @siouxkid12, this is kinda dumb.