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Greatest hockey line of all time
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 2:23 pm
by Tikker
What do you think was the greatest forward line of all time?
all-star games, olympics, etc don't count.
Just legit club team lines
Tikkanen - Gretzky - Kurri
Anderson - Messier - Simpson
Linday - Howe - Abel
Kharlomov - Larionov - Makarov
Hull - Oates - random dude
etc
#1 for me is the gretzky line, followed by the howe-lindsay-abel line
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 3:24 pm
by Ganzo
Kharlomov - Larionov - Makarov
no questions
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 11:30 pm
by Snero
lemieux had some good lines in pittsburg, I would take mario + motivated jagr and whatever they put on that line (tocchet?) over the gretzky line. They didn't really have the time together to be known as aline though.
One of the best ever has to be shutt lafleur and lemaire though and i would think players like bernie geoffrion, maurice richard should be mentionned too
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 8:43 am
by Xaiveir
Messier, Graves, and Gardner was a very good line for the 94 Rangers.
Re: Greatest hockey line of all time
Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:38 pm
by Tuggan
Tikker wrote:
Linday - Howe - Abel
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:15 am
by Tikker
Xaiveir Tanthalas wrote:Messier, Graves, and Gardner was a very good line for the 94 Rangers.
I'm a huge messier fan, and I like graves too, but that wouldn't even rank in the top 100 lines in all likelyhood
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 10:31 am
by Eziekial
snero wrote:lemieux had some good lines in pittsburg, I would take mario + motivated jagr and whatever they put on that line (tocchet?) over the gretzky line. They didn't really have the time together to be known as aline though.
Kevin Stevens or Martin Straka. I was a big fan of Pitt back in the Lemieux golden years.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:42 pm
by Tikker
snero wrote:lemieux had some good lines in pittsburg, I would take mario + motivated jagr and whatever they put on that line (tocchet?) over the gretzky line. They didn't really have the time together to be known as aline though.
One of the best ever has to be shutt lafleur and lemaire though and i would think players like bernie geoffrion, maurice richard should be mentionned too
I don't think you can really put lemiux/jagr/whoever in the category
They didn't consistently play together, otherwise the greatest line of all time would be Gretzky, messier, kurri
the #1 all time score, the #2 all time scorer, and top 3 playoff scorers of all time
they just weren't consistently skating together
It was clearly an oversite to not have the montreal lines on the list (but i hate montreal, so it's justified!)
Another great line would have to be Trottier, bourne, gilles
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:59 pm
by Tikker
Season GP G A PTS PIM PPG
Gretzky 80 52 163 215 46 2.69
Kurri 78 68 63 131 22 1.68
Tikkanen 76 34 44 78 120 1.03
vs Pittsburgh super line
Mario - 122 (50 G, 72 A) +27 +/- [1st NHL overall]
Jagr - 95 (47 G, 48 A) +21 [5th]
Francis - 90 (27 G, 63 A) +4 [tied 7th]
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 5:06 pm
by Gidan
Just becasue I loved the team
Whalers CVS line.
Andrew Cassels, Pat Verbeek, GeoffSanderson