N. American or European?
Yesterday, Ovechkin, Malkin, and Alfredsson were 1, 2, 3 in NHL scoring. The first time in recent memory where three Europeans (including Russia here) have held the top three spots. If we were to make a team of the top 12 forwards, 6 defensemen and 2 goalies of each, which do you think would be better? If you were rooting for a N. America vs Europe (including Russia) team, which would you choose? Which would prevail?
The rosters are found below.
This is just a list of the top 12 players, 6 defensemen and 2 goalies statistically from each team. For goalies, I wrote down all three of wins, SV% and GAA since each person values these stats differently.
Team North America:
Lecavalier
Spezza
Iginla
St. Louis
Thornton
Ribeiro
Heatley
Crosby
M. Richards
Savard
Getzlaf
Gomez
Rafalski
Campbell
Pronger
Phaneuf
Jovanovksi
Green
Brodeur (wins)
Luongo* (wins)
or
Conklin (SV%)
Leclaire (SV%)
or
Osgood (GAA)
Leclaire (GAA)
Team Europe:
Ovechkin
Malkin
Alfredsson
Zetterberg
Datsyuk
Kovalchuk
Gaborik
O. Jokinen
Sundin
D. Sedin
H. Sedin
Kovalev
Lidstrom
Gonchar
Markov
Streit
Chara
Zubov
Nabokov (wins)
Kiprusoff (wins)
or
Vokoun (SV%)
Bryzgalov (SV%)
or
Hasek (GAA)
Nabokov (GAA)
* I realize Luongo is tied with Miller, Giguere and Turco, but I figured most of you would agree to put him there.
So… which team is better? Team N. America or Team Europe?