Top 5? Top 10?
2007-11-29 05:22:54 · 13 answers · asked by Bob Loblaw 7 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Michael- You give Leetch WAY too much credit. Ahead of Coffey? Ahead of Potvin? Crazy talk.
2007-11-29 06:12:18 · update #1
Leetch is not top 10 material.
2007-11-29 06:12:51 · update #2
Wow. Another that LITY and I disagree on. No need to apoligize. To me, Robinson brought the whole package to the table, he could do whatever was asked and also was one of the more underrated tough guys in the league.
2007-11-29 10:17:23 · update #3
Top ten for sure for Robinson. He did it at both ends his whole career. And he mentored some other pretty good Dmen along the way. Like Langway.
As for Leetch, the young Leetch was one type of guy. The older one was different. The young Leetch could qb a PP and march the puck up ice and still get back if needed. The older Leetch took fewer chances but was still good on the PP. He was so in control of his end of the ice. Always in the right spot. Communicating with his partner. The biggest issue for him was people expected him to be the young Leetch when he was over 30. And he couldn't deliver that guy any more.
I'd still put Leetch in the top ten all time.
I'd argue Larry Murphy until I ran out of breath. I watched him during the 87 Canada Cup and the Russians tore him up. The deliberately dumped into his corner and pressured him into giving up the puck. It worked over and over. And the same thing happened while he was in Toronto. When he moved to Detroit, Scotty gave him a more reliable partner and kept him out of those situations by putting him on the ice against the right people. Scotty was a master at matching lines to negate certain players and that included match defensemen with certain lines.
2007-11-29 08:29:10 · answer #1 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Devils fan, old enough to remember Robinson, our 2000 Cup-winning coach, on the Montreal dynasty of the late 1970s. Of the guys I've actually seen, he's the best. My top five would be Robinson, Ray Bourque, Scott Stevens, Brian Leetch (great, but I can NOT put a Ranger ahead of the man who made the Devils), and Paul Coffey. I only saw Bobby Orr toward the end of his career, and he just wasn't Bobby Orr anymore.
My all-time top five, based on films and hearsay, I'd say: 1. Orr, 2. Doug Harvey, 3. Red Kelly (when they started giving out the Norris Trophy in 1954, he beat Harvey out for it), 4. Robinson, 5. Bourque. Round out the top ten with old-timers Eddie Shore and King Clancy, and then Stevens, Leetch and Coffey. Among active defensemen, I'd go with Nicklas Lidstrom, who I'll probably end up putting ahead of Coffey when he's done.
Somebody mentioned Viacheslav Fetisov. Even though he eventually played for my team, I can't put him in there because pretty much all we saw of him was the last third of his career, and the occasional international match, when he wasn't playing a full 80-game schedule.
You could also put into your top ten Denis Potvin, and it was a clean hit, Ranger fans, Ulf Nilsson still says so! If he sucks, it's because he's an Islander, not because of that hit!
2007-11-29 14:03:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 or 4
2007-11-29 13:28:21 · answer #3 · answered by Dragonmistress 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
To answer the question, definitely top 10. Besides Shore, Blake, and Harvey, who I never saw play, I would also put (in no particular order) Denis Potvin, Orr, Borque, Coffey, MacInnis, and Larry Murphy, with an Honorable mention to Lidstrom, who will wind up in the top 10 by the time he's done.
2007-11-29 14:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by Laying Low- Not an Ivy Leaguer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He's definitely top 10, and possibly top 5.
Off the top of my head, the only guys I would put ahead of him right away are Bobby Orr, Doug Harvey, and possibly Eddie Shore (all rep, of course, since I never saw him). Robinson would be in the next few with guys like Red Kelly and Bourque.
2007-11-29 13:37:17 · answer #5 · answered by Craig S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would think defiantly top 10. Not sure about top 5 though, especially all-time. Big Bird was a good D man, but to put him in top 3 or even 4 is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
2007-11-29 13:38:14 · answer #6 · answered by jeffwar03 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd put him in the second half of the top 10. Gotta realize how long this list is, top 10 is a pretty exclusive club.
2007-11-29 14:35:19 · answer #7 · answered by cme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I barely have Robinson in my top 25.
Sorry Bob
2007-11-29 15:05:58 · answer #8 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say top 5 - 3rd overall. Hard to compare from era to era though.
My top 10:
Orr
Harvey
Robinson
Shore
Bourque
Park
Potvin
Lidstrom
Blake
Coffey
2007-11-29 14:09:18 · answer #9 · answered by Coach Scott 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't think right now, but I would say 4-7 range.
2007-11-29 13:26:54 · answer #10 · answered by radek_200 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋