The scratches were not easy, as is meant leaving off some talent for the right guys. My reasoning is that Dunham has the second lowest GAA for Devils goalies who played over 25 games, and finished with a career GAA of 2.74 after stints with some awful teams. But behind him I went with his 96-97 Jennings Trophy partner Mike Dunham, over former starters like Sean Burke or Chico Resch. Taking into consideration playoff performances along with overall ability, I couldn't pass on Shawn Chambers, who was a major part of the teams '95 cup run.Īnother easy choice was Martin Brodeur in net. Point totals like that are more than impressive enough for this squad. While he only played 22 games with the squad in 95-96, Phil Housley was the highest scoring American in hockey history until Mike Modano broke it this year. Being ninth on the teams scoring list and a solid 2-way defender was enough to give Bruce Driver a spot, leaving two openings in the top 6 for defensemen. The defense was a bit easy, with Scott Stevens, Scott Niedermayer, and Ken Daneyko all being obvious choices. Madden has proven himself to not only be a better overall player, but truly bleeds Devils red, and would never do something as crazy as signing with a rival. Instead of having Bobby Holik center the line, I removed him and added John Madden. Future Hall of Famer Dave Andreychuk rounds out the top 9.įor the final three spots, I decided to (almost) reunite another great line in team history - The Crash Line. To fill out the 2nd and 3rd lines, I went with two of the best power forwards and playoff performers in team history - Stephane Richer and Claude Lemuiex. Through mostly bad times, Broten, MacLean and Muller managed to put up enough points to all be on the Devils top 10 scoring list. Also, based on point totals, there was no way I could leave off John MacLean, Kirk Muller and Aaron Broten.
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