The debate about the Kings’ “all-decade” center yesterday was really interesting and fun. Today, it’s the wingers. Who would you pick as the top two Kings wingers of the 2000s? Click below to find out my choices:
And also, you can check out the choices of Bob Miller, Jim Fox and others…
Who are your picks?
How about Luc Robitaille at left wing and Deadmarsh are right wing?
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With so very little to be proud of from the past 10 years, I find this “all decade team” discussion to be not only meaningless but quite strange and pathetic. I mean seriously, what’s there to celebrate?
I can see maybe talking about a few cool highlights here and there (adam deadmarsh). But other than that, it’s been an absolutely dismal decade that we should be trying to forget, not remember!
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Ziggy ZIggy Ziggy can’t you see…sometimes your moves just hypnotize me, and I just love your flashy way, Guess that’s why they broke, and you’re so paid!
Obviously I love Ziggy and would love to see him on the wing with Kopitar and Smyth right now, its still possible…DO IT DEANO!
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Marcel Dionne Center
Luc Robitaille Left Wing
Ziggy Palffy Right Wing
Mattis Norstrom Right Defense
Drew Doughty Left Defense
Rogie Vachon Goal
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It should be Mattis Left D
Drew Doughty Right D, sorry gang. OBTW…. Merry Christmas to all
hockey fans.
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It’s Palffy and the other wing is a tossup. Ziggy was head and shoulders above the rest.
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And, Wavesinair’s statement has a lot of merit to it.
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DetroitSons, if you’re going for an all-time greatest Kings list there, I agree with your picks for Center, LW, & Goalie. Norstrom is debatable, I guess if you’re picking one O-minded defender and one D-minded defender, then Norstrom is probably one of the best for the D category. IHowever, how you pick Ziggy Palffy over Dave Taylor and Drew Doughty over Rob Blake or Steve Duchesne is amazing to me.
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Calder – McCauley – Zeiler
Tverdovsky / Dallman
Cloutier
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This one’s easy.
Frolov as the best Left winger and Palfy as the best right winger.
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Palffy. Our only established elite player of the decade. If I had to choose another… I don’t know. Deader? Brownie? One of those two. Ho hum.
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Ziggy is an easy choice. I gotta say Deadmarsh for the other, but as much as I loved the guy he really wasn’t here long enough to warrant the selection. There really is no clear cut choice behind them, which says much about how lousy the Kings have been. Rich, this exercise is depressing me….
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Waves, I think that’s why I ended up with Deader and Luc. Luc, obviously having more impact in the previous decade.
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The writer who picked Sean Avery needs to have her head examined.
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Frolov
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Ziggy absolutely. He was so much fun to watch.
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good one, Pobo…given the Kings history an anti-team of the decade does seem more appropriate.
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Well, it’s better than that “bracket” thing they did the other year. Give them a break.
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If the question was all-time, I’d go with Robitaille. But for the decade…could still go with Luc, but if I play the scarce Kings highlights from the last ten years in my head, I picture Deadmarsh. And again, I can’t go with anyone who never played a playoff game. So for me, it’s Deadmarsh and Palffy.
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Pobo -
We think alike, but I think I have a worse line-up. I did the all-time roster of shame a few months ago:
http://wp.me/ptucv-uG
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Hah…I’d like to know Rich’s anti-team of the decade
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Quisp -
Hahahah…I love the fact that you have McCauley placed on IR on the opening night roster.
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DetroitSons & Colin-
Dionne over Gretzky at center?…woah
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Dionne – 1307 points in 12 years here
Gretzky – 918 points in 8 years here and took us to the Stanley Cup finals…
Should be a no brainer…
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Look at my pen name. Need I say more?
Ziggy forever!!
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My vote is for Brownie…not because he’s the best skater…the best scorer… or has been in the biggest games thus farm, but rather when I think of the face of organization from the recent past, the present, and the future he’s it.
Plus he truly has grown up inside the Kings system which says a lot too.
(What’s going to be interesting is when we start thinking about out best D-men…because I think our present class fairs real well, even though they haven’t played a ton of years with the Kings or in the NHL)
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Palffy without a question. He was all skill when he was here. 5’10″ and not in particularly great shape but could thrill every shift every night. The class of King wingers for sure.
Frolov deserves mention for putting up numbers on some God forsaken teams. I think he takes a lot of heat these days which is influencing a lot of folks.
Deadmarsh was a human cannonball and his career suffered for it. Fun to watch but kind of awful at the same time. Seriously, didn’t he take on and get destroyed by both Stevens and Jovanovski?
Luc’s time was pre Detroit days. Everything else is more sentimental. Remember we are looking at this in he vacuum of the last decade.
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Correction: not Stevens. It was Jovo twice. I guess I just think of Scott Stevens every time I think of unconscious wingers.
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Palffy was a beast. Easy choice.
The other side is a little tougher but I think you have to go with Fro. The guy scores 30 a year fairly regularly.
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Tantrum…… absolutely Marcel Dionne, and Colin…. I call it foresight, I just jumped the gun a little (of course when you’re my age, you’re allowed….lol) For the “Decade” at LW Palffy and at RW Deader. Ok now I’m on the same page as the rest of you. I was just thinking ‘All Time” when I wrote the other list.
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Tantrum….. who had the biggest heart and had the least to play with. His last name was not Gretzky.
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Ziggy. Look I love Luc as much as any Kings fan, but Palffy was the dominant winger of this decade.
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Deader…the guy was just nails, never backed down once. Unfortunately, it was that style of play that ended his career way too early.
Ziggy…our last real pure goal scorer and just exciting to watch.
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It was the fight with Jovo that started Deaders concussion problems. Add in a few more, including Craig Johnson kicking him in the head, then Stumpel running into him while wearing the “Red” no contact jersey and that was pretty much it for him.
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Well technically it was Craig freaking Johnson that ended his career early
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Wingers are Frolov snd Palffy and the center is Kopi. Duh.
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1. palffy…
2. deadmarsh…
3. frolov…
4. luc…
i don’t have any stipulations re: playoff experience…
although i can completely understand QUISPY and his reasoning on this, i don’t think it should be a prerequisite that a player on this list had to acquire playoff experience for consideration…
i think you would have to go with kopi centering deader and palffy…but kopi/luc/fro sounds pretty good, too…
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Waves — so true
PK — so funny
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WAVES…
yeah…DAP for that ironic post…!
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Have to go with Rich’s picks again.
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For my top wingers I choose Ziggy Palffy at RW and Adam Deadmarsh at LW. Palffy because for the 1st half of the decade he was the Kings best player. And Deadmarsh because even though he played in only 1 full season & parts of 2 others, he had probably the biggest impact on this team. I really wanted to add Brown because I think he was the most important player of the 2nd half of the decade along with Kopitar & Doughty. But until he leads the Kings into the playoffs I wouldn’t put him at the top. Maybe the next decade.
“Quisp -
Hahahah…I love the fact that you have McCauley placed on IR on the opening night roster.”
That made me laugh too.
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I miss Deadmarsh.
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Wingers.. ZIggy Pallfy and Adam Deadmarsh
Miss them as well as Avery.
Centers.. Jason Allison and Anze Kopitar
Best line of 2000…
Pallfy, Allison, and Deadmarsh.. They were unstoppable!!
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Luc Robitaille and Dave Taylor.
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