Hockey GOAT: What's the Best Team Ever?
Kirstin Waters
2025-04-27 17:10:10
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There is often debate about which was better but we are going with the Edmonton Oilers who featured the best to ever lace the skates up with Wayne Gretzky. Along with the Great One, players like Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr, and Jari Kurri helped the Oilers win five Stanley Cups from 1984 to 1990.
Erika Lemke
2025-04-25 07:24:44
Count answers: 5
The Islanders during this time stood as an emblem of formidable strength and strategic brilliance, mirrored by achieving four straight Stanley Cup triumphs. It's their shared ambition and cooperation, coupled with individual skill, that makes them a standout contender for the title of the greatest hockey team ever.
This team was nothing short of hockey's rockstars led by the mercurial Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and Jari Kurri. Their aggressive style, coupled with intricate play strategies and an uncanny ability to turn a game on its head, was nothing short of spectacular.
The Penguins under the leadership of Sidney Crosby, showcased a game that was fast-paced, intuitive, and carried elements of surgical precision. What made this team special was their resilience, pushing back from previous defeats to claim hockey's highest honor.
Dagmar Stark
2025-04-11 20:37:18
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There's really only one answer: the 1980 Soviet Union team.
To be fair, it could be any of the Big Red Machine's teams between 1972 and 1984 because there was so little roster turnover, but the 1980 team melded the dominant teams of the 1970s with what would become the dominant teams of the '80s. The 1980 Soviet squad still had the Valeri Kharlamov-Vladimir Petrov-Boris Mikhailov line and other '70s stalwarts such as Helmuts Balderis and Alexander Maltsev. The team also featured Vladimir Krutov, Sergei Makarov, Slava Fetisov and Alexei Kasatonov when they were in their early 20s. And the legendary Vladislav Tretiak was in goal.
In Eric Zweig's book, "Twenty Greatest Hockey Goals," Fetisov said the 1980 team was "probably the best team ever put together in the Soviet Union. We never thought of losing, never thought it could happen. That's why they call it a miracle."
They dominated the game," said Juhani Tamminen, a former Team Finland captain who played in the WHA. "It's almost not even up to discussion. In their time, they were superior to everybody else."
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