ESN's 2010 Olympics...NsHL Style

[Elite Sim News (ESN)]

So I was bored last night and got to thinking how many countries could have a full roster with NsHL players. SEVEN! For the rosters, I only selected 12 forwards, 6 defensemen and 2 goalies.

CANADA

C Joe Thornton - Buffalo Sabres
C Eric Staal - Carolina Hurricanes
C Sidney Crosby - Colorado Avalanche
C Ryan Getzlaf - Anaheim Ducks

LW Brenden Morrow - Vancouver Canucks
LW Dany Heatley - Columbus Blue Jackets
LW Ryan Smyth - New York Rangers
LW Alex Tanguay - Colorado Avalanche

RW Jarome Iginla - New Jersey Devils
RW Todd Bertuzzi - New York Rangers
RW Shane Doan - Vancouver Canucks
RW Rick Nash - Columbus Blue Jackets

D Wade Redden - Ottawa Senators
D Chris Pronger - Phoenix Coyotes
D Dion Phaneuf - Ottawa Senators
D Shea Weber - Carolina Hurricanes
D Duncan Keith - Chicago Blackhawks
D Mike Green - Dallas Stars

G Martin Brodeur - New Jersey Devils
G Jose Theodore - Montreal Canadiens


UNITED STATES

C Scott Gomez - New York Rangers
C Brian Rolston - Chicago Blackhawks
C Danny Fritsche - Columbus Blue Jackets
C Paul Stastny - Washington Capitals

LW Zach Parise - Buffalo Sabres
LW Ryan Malone - St. Louis Blues
LW R.J. Umberger - New York Islanders
LW David Booth - New York Rangers

RW Jamie Langenbrunner - New York Islanders
RW Erik Cole - Washington Capitals
RW Brian Gionta - Ottawa Senators
RW Ryan Kesler - Colorado Avalanche

D Paul Martin - Vancouver Canucks
D Brian Rafalski - Anaheim Ducks
D Jordan Leopold - New York Islanders
D John-Michael Liles - Buffalo Sabres
D Tom Preissing - Los Angeles Kings
D Ryan Suter - Nashville Predators

G Ryan Miller - Minnesota Wild
G Rick DiPietro - Vancouver Canucks


RUSSIA

C Evgeni Malkin - Florida Panthers
C Pavel Datsyuk - Detroit Red Wings
C Ivan Khomutov - New York Islanders
C Ilja Zubov - Montreal Canadiens

LW Ilya Kovalchuk - Philadelphia Flyers
LW Alexander Ovechkin - Montreal Canadiens
LW Sergei Samsonov - Toronto Maple Leafs
LW Nikolai Zherdev - Columbus Blue Jackets

RW Alexei Kovalev - Anaheim Ducks
RW Alexander Frolov - Los Angeles Kings
RW Maxim Afinogenov - Dallas Stars
RW Alexander Semin - San Jose Sharks

D Sergei Gonchar - Pittsburgh Penguins
D Andrei Markov - Columbus Blue Jackets
D Fedor Tyutin - Vancouver Canucks
D Sergei Zubov - Florida Panthers
D Vitaly Vishnevski - Anaheim Ducks
D Denis Grebeshkov - Toronto Maple Leafs

G Evgeni Nabokov - Atlanta Thrashers
G Ilja Bryzgalov - Anaheim Ducks


SWEDEN

C Henrik Sedin - Vancouver Canucks
C Johan Franzen - New Jersey Devils
C Michael Nylander - New York Rangers
C Nicklas Backstrom - Colorado Avalanche

LW Henrik Zetterberg - Detroit Red Wings
LW Daniel Sedin - Vancouver Canucks
LW Tomas Holmstrom - Atlanta Thrashers
LW Fabian Brunnstrom - Dallas Stars

RW Daniel Alfredsson - Atlanta Thrashers
RW Mikael Samuelsson - Detroit Red Wings
RW Loui Eriksson - Dallas Stars
RW Fredrik Sjostrom - Phoenix Coyotes

D Nicklas Lidstrom - Ottawa Senators
D Mattias Ohlund - Pittsburgh Penguins
D Kim Johnsson - Philadelphia Flyers
D Niklas Kronwall - Detroit Red Wings
D Henrik Tallinder - Chicago Blackhawks
D Tobias Enstrom - Ottawa Senators

G Henrik Lundqvist - New York Rangers
G Jonas Gustavsson - Columbus Blue Jackets


FINLAND

C Olli Jokinen - Edmonton Oilers
C Saku Koivu - New York Islanders
C Mikko Koivu - Montreal Canadiens
C Jarkko Immonen - Toronto Maple Leafs

LW Tuomo Ruutu - Buffalo Sabres
LW Antti Miettinen - Florida Panthers
LW Valtteri Filppula - Vancouver Canucks
LW Jarkko Ruutu - New York Islanders

RW Teemu Selanne - Phoenix Coyotes
RW Niklas Hagman - Ottawa Senators
RW Jere Lehtinen - San Jose Sharks
RW Ville Peltonen - Anaheim Ducks

D Joni Pitkanen - San Jose Sharks
D Sami Salo - Edmonton Oilers
D Toni Lydman - Buffalo Sabres
D Kimmo Timonen - Chicago Blackhawks
D Ossi Vaananen - Minnesota Wild
D Ville Koistinen - Nashville Predators

G Miikka Kiprusoff - Toronto Maple Leafs
G Kari Lehtonen - San Jose Sharks


CZECH REPUBLIC

C Radek Bonk - Nashville Predators
C Tomas Plekanec - Montreal Canadiens
C David Krejci - Anaheim Ducks
C David Vyborny - Columbus Blue Jackets

LW Vaclav Prospal - Detroit Red Wings
LW Petr Sykora - San Jose Sharks
LW Milan Michalek - Buffalo Sabres
LW Martin Erat - Nashville Predators

RW Milan Hejduk - Vancouver Canucks
RW Ales Hemsky - Minnesota Wild
RW Martin Havlat - St. Louis Blues
RW Patrik Elias - Los Angeles Kings

D Pavel Kubina - Tampa Bay Lightning
D Roman Hamrlik - Washington Capitals
D Jaroslav Spacek - New York Rangers
D Michal Rozsival - Los Angeles Kings
D Martin Skoula - Vancouver Canucks
D Lukas Krajicek - Calgary Flames

G Tomas Vokoun - Nashville Predators
G Alexander Salak - Toronto Maple Leafs


SLOVAKIA

C Pavol Demitra - Buffalo Sabres
C Michal Handzus - Toronto Maple Leafs
C Tomas Kopecky - Calgary Flames
C Peter Olvecky - Anaheim Ducks

LW Miroslav Satan - Boston Bruins
LW Ladislav Nagy - New York Rangers
LW Branko Radivojevic - Phoenix Coyotes
LW Marcel Hossa - Dallas Stars

RW Marian Hossa - Pittsburgh Penguins
RW Marian Gaborik - Ottawa Senators
RW Richard Zednik - Los Angeles Kings
RW Marek Svatos - San Jose Sharks

D Zdeno Chara - New York Rangers
D Andrej Meszaros - Tampa Bay Lightning
D Branislev Mezei - Florida Panthers
D Milan Jurcina - Pittsburgh Penguins
D Andrej Sekera - Los Angeles Kings
D Boris Valabik - Edmonton Oilers

G Peter Budaj - Colorado Avalanche
G Jaroslav Halak - Montreal Canadiens

[torontogm]

The Toronto Maple Leafs are thrilled with the selection of our players to their respective ESN/NsHL Olympic squads. Congratulations to Samsonov, Grebeshkov, Immonene, Kiprusoff, Salak and Handzus! Any chance this gets simmed? ;P

PS... Nice work Roger!

[ex-BluesGM]

SOurces report that the St. Louis Blues front office is very displeased with the slighting of netminder Brent Johnson by USA hockey. At the time of the selection Johnson was 6th in the league in GAA, is tied with Rick Dipietro with a .910 SV% (both besting Ryan Miller) is a league leader in wins (15, more then both DiPietro and Miller) has played the most minutes, faced the most shots and Ryan mIller has the second most loses in the league at 13.

[CalgaryGM]

Reports out of Calgary say that the Calgary Flames will be insisting upon an internal investigation of how and who were on the Olympic team selection committee. Carey Price is 1st in save% at .932, 2nd in Goals Against Average at 2.00, 3rd in most shots against at 763, 3rd in Wins at 15, 5th in minutes played at 1563.

[ColumbusGM]

Nikolai Zherdev is wondering why there are other players on Team Russia...when the media got wind of this, Nikolai had the following to say

"Those other bums will limit my ice time, which in turn will limit the ammount of time I spend celebrating my own goals. This is bullshizznit!"

[Anaheim GM]

Wow...Is Nikolai this annoying in the REAL NHL? I hadn't heard.

[Anaheim GM]

For the record, I think this is tremendous work, Roger....TREMENDOUS work.

I think people take for granted how much time it takes to research all of this information to provide such an interesting read..

If this would be the rosters I would be thrilled to be sending 7 players to play in the Olympics. ;D

[LAKingsGM]

Team Canada without Roberto Luongo.


Hmmmmmmmmmmm

[ColumbusGM]

Jan 12, 2010 15:29:17 GMT -5 Anaheim GM said:

Wow...Is Nikolai this annoying in the REAL NHL? I hadn't heard.

Hey, when you're on top, you've got to enjoy every minute of it. I fully expect it to end in two or three weeks, but until then...brace yourself lol

[ColumbusGM]

Also, outstanding job.

The effort put into this was quite large. Thanks.

[Elite Sim News (ESN)]

Reports from ESN headquarters say editor Roger Gorbet responded "unfavorably" to criticism over ESN's selections.

Actually, we have a direct quote right here. "If anyone has a problem with our selections they can suck it," said Gorbet. "Do you know how much time our scouting staff put into these rosters? Do you know how many hours our scouting staff spent agonizing over these selections? Did you even know we had a scouting staff? Well, we don't. We is me, which is probably something we can examine at a later date. I spent literally 26 minutes coming up with these rosters. You think this is easy? I can't even begin to tell you how hard it was leaving some of these players off the teams, mostly because I didn't think twice about doing so. I have players that didn't make the cut too ya know. BOO HOO...my goalie didn't make the team! Shove it. We really only needed to have one goalie for Canada. And I'm sorry, but I'm not putting a guy named BJ on any roster."

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That's something I could have said, but I would never do that . The truth is I didn't look at stats at all. Why? Because picking a roster based on numbers is pretty stupid in my mind. Since that's all we have in the sim world, I just tried to pick a good team for each country. Could the picks have been better? That can be argued. But that's the fun of doing things like this.

[CalgaryGM]

Hey Roger, no slight intended, just trying to keep the sim world real and boo hooing just seems like the right thing to do. I appreciate how much work you do put into ESN and the league, as I'm sure everyone else does too. Great job by the way.

[Elite Sim News (ESN)]

Haha, I hope you didn't think what I said above was serious Andrew!

I love thinking about these things though. Carey Price has played VERY well, as has Brent Johnson. They would be making pretty good cases in the real world.

[formerDevilsGM]

Great job Roger, I dont know how you find the time do this good stuff man and on top of that still make a blockbuster trade..

I think the list is pretty much right on man. There will always be people unhappy about good players felt left out of every olympic team.

[WildGM]

not sure how Patty Kane gets overlooked on the U.S. squad....considering the amount of work put in, I could see how simple mistakes would be made ;D