Player Over/Under: the Golbez Love/Hate List

Link: Hockey Rants.

Jes Golbez wants to know who our favorite/least favorite players are team by team across the NHL.  This one's an easy one so, I'll indulge in being a little opinionated:

Anaheim: Keith Carney / Sandis Ozolinch
Atlanta: Peter Bondra / Slava Kozlov
Boston: Per Axelsson / Joe Thornton
Buffalo: Paul Gaustad / J. P. Dumont
Calgary: Rhett Warrener / Bryan Marchment
Carolina: Rod Brind'Amour / Mike Commodore
Chicago: Curtis Brown (CuBRo!) / Martin LaPointe
Colorado: Ian LaPerriere / Rob Blake
Columbus: Bryan Berard / Adam Foote
Dallas: Jere Lehtinen and Stu Barnes (Stuuuuuuuu!) / Marty Turco
Detroit: Manny Legace / Chris Chelios/Kirk Maltby/Tomas Holmstrom et. al.
Edmonton:  Ryan Symth / Mike Peca
Florida: Roberto Luongo / Joe Neiwendyck and Gary Roberts
Los Angeles: Mattias Norstrom / Jeremy Roenick
Minnesota: Dwayne Roloson / Marion Gaborik
Montreal: Matheiu Dandenault / Saku Koivu
Nashville: Tomas Vokoun / Darcy Hordichuk
New Jersey: Sergei Brylin / Grant Marshall
New York Isles: Alexei Zhitnik / Alexei Yashin
New York Rangers: Kevin Weekes / Darius Kasparitis
Ottawa: Zdeno Chara / Dominik Hasek
Philadelphia: Michael Handzus / Derian Hatcher
Pittsburgh: Marc-Andre Fleury / Mark Recchi
Phoenix: CuJo / Mike Comrie
San Jose: Alyn McCauley /  Scott Thornton
St. Louis: Mike Sillinger (??) / Doug Weight
Tampa Bay: Martin St. Louis / Darryl Sydor
Toronto: Wade Belak (teeheehee!) / Darcy Tucker (Sideshow Bob himself!)
Vancouver: Ed Jovanavski / Trevor Linden
Washington: Olie Kolzig / Brendan Witt

Some of these picks are old hatreds from when certain players played for Dallas (*cough* Scott Thornton *cough* Grant Marshall *cough*), and others are, at best, lukewarm good/bad feelings for, like Mike Sillinger or Marian Gaborik, because I had to pick somone.

If you find it surprising that I had two picks for the Dallas Stars, you should be, but to explain... I think Jere Lehtinen is one of the best all-around players in the NHL, and the only member of the '99 Cup-awarded team I could ever stand to wear an AGH sweater.  I nearly cried when Stu Barnes was traded to Dallas... hell, Stu did.  They both deserve to be mentioned.  I would have picked half of the roster for the Maple Queefs but I tried to stick to the original intent of the list... Most/Least favorite... While I have a pretty good hate going for Brian McCabe, Tie Domi, Ed Belfour and Eric Lindros... Darcy Tucker holds a special place in the pit of my liver.

Ta,