Around which current NHL star would you build a franchise?

Beef03 · Dec 30, 2008

Sea Bass said:

Beef03 said:

hockeybeat said:

Beef03 said:

Brad Boyes but no Ales Hemsky or Sam Gagner (and yes he's in a horrible sophpomore slump, but the potential is still rediculous)?

Not that it matters, as I would still choose Ovechkin. Not only do you get the excitement of his on ice play you also get his engaging personality. BBJ is too much of a robot off the ice and that's only because he's been molded that way for the past decade. Ovechkin still has that spontaneity and unpredictability off the ice but is not a douche ala Avery.
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Boyes has scored 40 goals in a season. Gagner may yet develop into something special and Hemskey is a good set up man, but I'm not sure I'd want to build my team around them.

I would like to see Hemskey and Boyes play together.

More brain cramps on my part. I forgot to mention Jack Johnson and Erik Johnson.
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Hemsky (no second 'e' not being a jerk to pick on you, but I see it all the time, all over the place, and it drives me up the wall) is one of the most dynamic playmakers in the game and is still fairly young. He just took a bit of time to develop and convincing to use his shot -- he has one of the best releases in the game, but he would always rather pass though for some reason, I swear to god I watched him bail on shooting while on a breakaway once, circle behind the net and look for the trailer to pass to. Absolutely blew my mind. about had a stroke right then and there. I actually had a rare moment of pitty for MacTavish -- as fleeting as it may have been.
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Maybe it's because I just woke up, but did Beef just rag on somebody for a spelling mistake?
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Yeah I know, I'm probably the last person on here to be picking on someone for spelling mistakes which is why I half apologized while doing so. I normally don't, this one was just a pet peeve.

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Around which current NHL star would you build a franchise?

I'm interested in seeing which current NHL star that the esteemed SJ hockey brain trust would build

Alex Ovechkin

Sidney Crosby

Evgeni Malkin

Alex Semin

Ilya Kovalchuk

Zdeno Chara

Phil Kessel

Thomas Vanek

Ryan Miller

Eric Staal

Jay Bouwmeester

Mike Komisarek

Martin Brodeur

Henrik Lundqvist

Jason Spezza

Danny Heatley

Mike Richards

Jeff Carter

Simon Gagne

Vincent Lecavalier

Martin St. Louis

Ryan Getzlaf

Corey Perry

Scott Niedermayer

Chris Pronger

Jarome Iginla

Dion Phaneuf

Brian Campbell

Patrick Kane

Jonathan Toews

Rick Nash

Brendan Morrow

Pavel Datsyuk

Marian Hossa

Nick Lidstrom

Henrik Zetterberg

Anze Kopitar

Marian Gaborik

Niklas Backstrom (Minnesota's)

Nick Backstrom (Washington)

Shea Weber

Olli Jokinen

Dan Boyle

Joe Thornton

Brad Boyes

Daniel Sedin

Henrik Sedin

Roberto Luongo

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