All-Western New York Team

[dewally]

The topic came up on WGR the other day about who would you name to a team made up from western new york NHL players??? Not only current players, but all-time.

1st Team:
Forwards: Pat Kane, Brian Gionta, Todd Marchant
Defense: Aaron Miller, Brooks Orpik
Goalie: The only one I can think of is Les Kuntar

[amico1990]

I would take Lee Stempniak over Marchant

[Bay Side]

Wasn't Askey from Tonawanda!?? I think he played atleast 5 years in Rochester, and like 10 games with the Ducks!!

[Smapdi]

No love for Rory Fitzpatrick?!?

He was from Rochester though I believe...

I'd go:

Gionta - Kane - Stempniak

[3LH]

No love for Rory Fitzpatrick?!?

He was from Rochester though I believe...

I'd go:

Gionta - Kane - Stempniak

Gionta is from Rochester too. It counts.

Funny how we're technically not WNY and we're not Central NY and we're not Southern Tier. We're a land without an identity... and now a land without a Sabres affiliate! sadness...

[Buffalo87]

The topic came up on WGR the other day about who would you name to a team made up from western new york NHL players??? Not only current players, but all-time.

1st Team:
Forwards: Pat Kane, Brian Gionta, Todd Marchant
Defense: Aaron Miller, Brooks Orpik
Goalie: The only one I can think of is Les Kuntar

Billy Sauer is from the Rochester area and had a great season with Michigan last year, could be a legit NHL starter.

[Blofan4life]

How far are we going away from western new york. Like Kaleta is from Angola, could he be included? We should set boundaries then get a list going and see if we could get a couple decent lines together.

[dewally]

Rochester and westward

[buffjoe]

What about Bob Beers (Boston Bruins) who played with the Regals, Dan McFall (Winnipeg jets) who also played with the Regals. Peter Civaglia(Rochester, Buffalo) played for Nichols. I think one of the Braunschidels from Amherst Knights played for the Hartford Whalers. Scott Luce(Panthers) could be added to the All-Management team. Wait, I'm on a roll. Todd Krygier from the Regals played with Washington for a while. Scott Thomas (Sabres) was from around Buffalo. I think he was a Nichols product. Go across the bridge and you get Randy Burridge (Boston, Buffalo) from Fort Erie.

[keyron79]

Thomas McCollum From Sanbron will the first Goalie taking in this years draft...

http://allhabs.blogspot.com/2008/06/1-ranked-goalie-prospect-thomas.html

[Buffalo87]

Thomas McCollum From Sanbron will the first Goalie taking in this years draft...

http://allhabs.blogspot.com/2008/06/1-ranked-goalie-prospect-thomas.html

Ah yes, completely forgot about him. Not exactly a lock to go first, there's a handful of guys who could go first including Pickard, Markstrom, Satteri, etc. but still a very good goalie nonetheless.

[dewally]

How did I forget Maryvale products Bob Beers, and Jason Zent. Both had great College careers. Beers unfortunately battled with knee injury in Stanley cup finals. Zent had the hat trick for Wisconsin in there NCAA Championship game defeat, played for a couple of NHL teams Ottawa, Philadelphia

[SabresFan220]

Then we have borderline players like Craig Conroy, Robert Esche, and Erik Cole. There are some pretty good players from this area. Jeff Farkas was a pure goal scorer in the AHL, had his career derailed by a knee injury, otherwise I think he'd still be playing and in the NHL.

[pi2000]

Dave Seitz

Jason Bosignore

Tony Tuzzolino

Kevyn Adams

[г]

Then we have borderline players like Craig Conroy, Robert Esche, and Erik Cole. There are some pretty good players from this area. Jeff Farkas was a pure goal scorer in the AHL, had his career derailed by a knee injury, otherwise I think he'd still be playing and in the NHL.

Cole has averaged 40-50 points a season in the NHL.
I'd say he's a step above 'borderline'

[gebobs]

Gionta is from Rochester too. It counts.

Funny how we're technically not WNY and we're not Central NY and we're not Southern Tier. We're a land without an identity... and now a land without a Sabres affiliate! sadness...

And depending on who you talk to...not "upstate" NY either. If you're east of the Hudson, everything west is "upstate". But if you're not a self-absorbed idiot, upstate is the area west of the Hudson but south of Albany.

[gebobs]

The topic came up on WGR the other day about who would you name to a team made up from western new york NHL players??? Not only current players, but all-time.

1st Team:
Forwards: Pat Kane, Brian Gionta, Todd Marchant
Defense: Aaron Miller, Brooks Orpik
Goalie: The only one I can think of is Les Kuntar

Don't pick me. I played one year in net and lost my last game to the Regals 19-0. We got outshot something like 70-0. I took off the pads after the game and decided I'd make a better forward. ;-)

[Dockwalliper]

Cole has averaged 40-50 points a season in the NHL.
I'd say he's a step above 'borderline'

Im sure he ment borderline Western NYer not borderline talent.

I think if they did or could have played for the western team in the Empire state games they should count as WNYers.

[C Darwin]

OLD SCHOOL

Dan McFall, Winnipeg Jets, 9 games played, 1 assist. :rockon:

[Dockwalliper]

Jack Brownschidle

1973-74 Notre Dame NCAA 36 2 7 9 24
1974-75 Notre Dame NCAA 38 4 12 16 24
1975-76 Notre Dame NCAA 38 12 24 36 24
1976-77 Notre Dame NCAA 34 13 31 44 24
1977-78 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 25 4 12 16 0 -- -- -- -- --
1977-78 St. Louis Blues NHL 40 2 15 17 23 -- -- -- -- --
1978-79 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 11 0 10 10 0 -- -- -- -- --
1978-79 St. Louis Blues NHL 64 10 24 34 14 -- -- -- -- --
1979-80 St. Louis Blues NHL 77 12 32 44 8 3 0 0 0 0
1980-81 St. Louis Blues NHL 71 5 23 28 12 11 0 3 3 2
1981-82 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 5 33 38 26 8 0 2 2 14
1982-83 St. Louis Blues NHL 72 1 22 23 30 4 0 0 0 2
1983-84 St. Louis Blues NHL 51 1 7 8 19 -- -- -- -- --
1983-84 Hartford Whalers NHL 13 2 2 4 10 -- -- -- -- --
1984-85 Binghamton Whalers AHL 56 4 17 21 8 -- -- -- -- --
1984-85 Hartford Whalers NHL 17 1 4 5 5 -- -- -- -- --
1985-86 Binghamton Whalers AHL 58 5 26 31 18 6 0 3 3 0
1985-86 Hartford Whalers NHL 9 0 0 0 4 -- -- -- -- --
1986-87 Rochester Americans AHL 74 8 22 30 13 12 1 3 4 0
NHL Totals 494 39 162 201 151 26 0 5 5 18 (Not bad for a D-man)

Jeff Brownschidle
1977-78 Notre Dame NCAA 35 6 10 16 30
1978-79 Notre Dame NCAA 36 6 17 23 42
1979-80 Notre Dame NCAA 39 14 37 51 50
1980-81 Notre Dame NCAA 36 4 28 32 56
1981-82 Binghamton Whalers AHL 52 4 23 27 24 15 2 4 6 6
1981-82 Hartford Whalers NHL 3 0 1 1 2 -- -- -- -- --
1982-83 Binghamton Whalers AHL 64 9 18 27 52 5 0 1 1 23
1982-83 Hartford Whalers NHL 4 0 0 0 0 -- -- -- -- --
1983-84 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 11 1 7 8 12 -- -- -- -- --
1983-84 Binghamton Whalers AHL 30 2 7 9 50 -- -- -- -- --
NHL Totals 7 0 1 1 2

[Dockwalliper]

Wasn't Askey from Tonawanda!?? I think he played atleast 5 years in Rochester, and like 10 games with the Ducks!!


1997-98 Anaheim Mighty Duck
7 games
273 Min.
12 GA
2 ENG
0 SO
2.64 GAA
0 Wins
1 Loss
2 Ties
113 Svs
0.894 Pct.

[Dockwalliper]

Peter Ratchuk 32 GP 1 G 1 A 2 Pts 10 PIM with Flordia.

Mike Ratchuk got called up to the Philly Phantoms for the Play-offs.

Greg Crozier played one game for Pittsburgh in 2001.