I saw this site pop up in my twitter feed, a province by province listing of current highest scoring players born in each province.  With a lousy Jets season going along, and all this trade chatter, how about something fun (aka less stressful!) we can debate. Now, fully realize many of these players listed were only born here, then moved elsewhere. Nevertheless.... here's the lineups. Who do you like, Team MB or Team SK? 

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TEAM MANITOBA

Steen - Toews - Sharp

Domi - Zajac - Stone

Fehr - Eakin - Weise

McLeod - Helm - Reaves

Keith - Hamonic

Stone - Severson

Falk - Edmundson

Reimer

Pickard

TEAM SASKATCHEWAN

Marleau - Getzlaf - Eberle

Hartnell - Bozak - Kunitz

Schwartz - Schenn - Laich

King - Comeau - Gordon

Dumba - Murray

Schenn - Cowen

McNabb - Gryba

Holtby

Ward

We are screwed after the 2nd line.

I thought this was going to be an all time list. Clark and Howe would murder us.

We'd have Bobby Clark and Mosienko and Sawchuk...

Edited February 23, 201610 yr by Ducky

Ed Belfour in net also 

Manitoba sure produced some good centers and goalies.......Clark, Toews, Butch Goring, Sawchuk, Belfour,  Broda, Ranford

Patrick Sharp, Mike Keane, Reggie Leach, Mosienko, Leschyshyn, Grant Ledyard, James Patrick, Babe Pratt, Brian Engblom, Duncan Keith
Coaches  Fred Shero and Billy Reay

 

LOTS of really good players come from Manitoba, I am sure there are tons I have missed.

Ron Hextall to

Sask has some good top end talent and a impressive goalie tandem... I think MB might have more depth and probably a little stronger on the back end... This would probably be a decent hockey game...

Scrap the World Cup, and have a Canada Cup tournament with provincial teams. Split Ontario up. Give the States a West & East team.

But naaaah, we'll all like Team Europe vs Team North America Under 23 title match way better! 

Not many goalies considered to be better than Sawchuk over time. For sure top 10 and arguably top 5.

Edited February 24, 201610 yr by Ducky

Tough to say unless you are 100 and saw Sawchuk play. But yup, apparently he was very very good. 

I'd probably add Matt Calvert to team Manitoba and take off Cody Mcleod

On D, you could add Travis Sanheim to the Team Manitoba list also. He's a good one, prospect but a good one for sure. 

"Considered by many to be the best goalie to ever play the game, Sawchuk is in the top tier of netminders. His 103 shutouts was a league record for a long time and he held the record for most wins in a career for many years until Patrick Roy broke it not to long ago."

 

I remember him from the late 60's but he wasn't playing for the best teams. I do remember announcers like Danny Gallivan (best play by play guy ever) gushing about him and saying how he was the best goalie of all time.

I played at the arena named after him plenty of times