Whats ur favorite team and player?

[Peck]

We had the most hated player and team. So y not your most favorite team. Mines has to be Ryan Smyth and the Edmonton Oilers. Wat's urs????

[Marc]

I guess I will say the New Jersey Devils. (I'm from Jersey, a coincidence? Maybe ;)) I really don't follow them closely, so I don't really have a favorite player.

[Wedge231]

Rangers. And..... I dunno, I like alot of guys.

[lmanchur.]

I don't have a favorite team -- I have favorite teams. I support the Vancouver Cancuks, Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, and Montreal Canadiens.

My favorite player is Teemu Selanne. I will forever hate Winnipeg's last GM, John Paddock, for trading him to Anaheim... I'm sure if they would've kept him that they could've beat the Red Wings in '96 and boot 'em out of the playoffs in the first round (which they almost did, so without Selanne they would've had about a 100% better chance of doing it).

Of course, I also admire the hockey greats: Paul Henderson, Wayne Gretzky, and Mario Lemieux.

[Greensboro Hurricanes]

My favorite team is the Carolina Hurricanes. I hesitate to name a favorite player since everytime I do the team lets him go (Dineen, Primeau, Coffey), but I guess you can't go wrong with Ron Francis.

[lmanchur.]

Ha ha!... you got a point there, Hurricane!!!, but I think they'll be keeping Brind'amour for a while, I'm sure.

Tell me something, do they still have that arena out in the middle of nowhere or is the arena in the city completed yet and being used?

BTW, welcome to our sports community here at Sports Central!

[meshie]

Toronto Maple Leafs!! And I like watching the Canucks; they have a fast, exciting team. Favourite players would be Curtis Joseph, Joe Nieuwendyk, Darcy Tucker, Gary Roberts, Shayne Corson, Danny Markov, (ya know, pretty much all the Leafs!) Mike Johnson, Felix Potvin, Martin Biron, and Scott Stevens.

[lmanchur.]

Yes, the Canucks sure are a surprise team for the 2000-2001 -- no one was sure if all their young talent would spark this year, but they sure have... the only thing wrong with their team in inexperience and that will show come the late parts of the season and the playoffs in April.

...I noticed one thing about all of your fav players, meshie -- besides the goaltenders, they're all enforcer type, hard hitting, gritty players... good choices! -- that's the Canadian way! :)

[meshie]

Originally posted by SC-Lee
Yes, the Canucks sure are a surprise team for the 2000-2001 -- no one was sure if all their young talent would spark this year, but they sure have... the only thing wrong with their team in inexperience and that will show come the late parts of the season and the playoffs in April.


Yeah.. too bad. I'd love for them to upset a couple teams, though. I'd love it even more if it were a Toronto vs. Vancouver final! But that's obviously only a dream right now. :)

...I noticed one thing about all of your fav players, meshie -- besides the goaltenders, they're all enforcer type, hard hitting, gritty players... good choices! -- that's the Canadian way! :)

Hello, Don Cherry. :D I like tough players who give it their all, all the time. Doesn't matter if they're Russian or Czech or Finnish or Swedish or Canadian. Those are the kind of guys who win championships for you. The Devils had an entire team full of those guys, which is why I really admire Stevens who led his team to the Cup, with that 150% effort he put into each game.

[lmanchur.]

...geez!... I thought i was so subtle that you couldn't tell I always watch Don Cherry every Saturday night!... he he :)

[Colin M.]

I don't have a favorite player. Players move around so much in this day in age. It's hard for me to want to follow an individual player knowing that they could leave the team in a year or two.

[lmanchur.]

Agreed -- there's no such thing as loyalty any more... the only recent example I can think of was.. well actually there's two:

1. Ken Griffey, Jr., turned down more money from Seattle to goto his hometown of Cincinatti.
2. Wayne Gretzky turned down more money from St. Louis to go and play in the Big Apple with his pal, Marc Messier.