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Originally Posted by New Era
No. You are aware hockey existed prior to 1980 and many of the iron curtain countries never had their best players appear in the NHL? Even the Scandinavian countries had some of their greats not play in North America. There are a ton of legendary players that would make these teams at the expense of many of the names tossed around.
Czechoslovakia had players like Ivan Hlinka, Jiri Novak, Milan Novy, Frantisak Pospisil, Jiri Bubla and Vladimir Dzurilla. The Finns had Matti Hagman. The Swedes had Inge Hammarstrom, Andres Hedberg, Willy Lidstrom and Hardy Astrom. I've already mentioned the Russians, who were the scariest of the bunch. Canada would be ridiculously deep just by going through the greats who played for the Canadiens, let alone the other teams. The all-time teams should include players from every era, not just the past two decades.
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I'm only 24. My knowledge on older, non-NHL Euro's is pretty thin.
At least I included Tretiak.
You sound very knowledgeable about these guys, what would your All World team look like?