{"id":77940,"date":"2025-08-18T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:34:07","slug":"nhl-network-unveils-their-quarter-century-team-with-some-curious-omissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/77940\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Network unveils their Quarter Century team with some curious omissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/nhl-network-unveils-their-quarter-century-team-some-curious-omissions\/9dd7d7924b67866a8af0e815?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NHL Network unveils their Quarter Century team with some curious omissions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NHL Network unveils their Quarter Century team with some curious omissions <\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NHL Network recently unveiled their Quarter Century <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLNetwork\/status\/1956491091936481626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:team;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">team<\/a>, sparking debate online due to some high caliber players left off the list. Of course only so many players can be chosen for a team of this nature, making it an exclusive club that is bound to have big names on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>To warrant consideration for this list, the player must have made his NHL debut on January 1st, 2000 or later. The roster is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Forwards:\u00a0Patrice Bergeron, Sidney Crosby, Pavel Datsyuk, Leon Draisaitl, Patrick Kane, Anze Kopitar, Nikita Kucherov, Nathan MacKinnon, Evgeni Malkin, Connor McDavid, Alex Ovechkin and Steven Stamkos<\/p>\n<p>Defense:\u00a0Drew Doughty, Victor Hedman, Duncan Keith, Cale Makar, Alex Pietrangelo and Shea Weber<\/p>\n<p>Goalies:\u00a0Jonathan Quick and Andrej Vasilevskiy<\/p>\n<p>Who are the biggest snubs?<\/p>\n<p>The offensive front stirred the least controversy, but the biggest notable omissions that fans noticed were Jonathan Toews, Sacha Barkov, Henrik Zetterberg and the Sedin brothers: Henrik and Daniel.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The defensive front was a topic of massive debate with some huge stars left off, including Erik Karlsson, Brent Seabrook, Kris Letang and Ryan Suter.<\/p>\n<p>The goalie selections caused the largest outcry with Henrik Lundqvist, Carey Price and Marc-Andre Fleury being the three that riled up hockey fandom the most.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about NHL Network&#8217;s list, did they get it right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NHL Network unveils their Quarter Century team with some curious omissions originally appeared on The Sporting News The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[10231,59628,59624,64,63,59633,59632,59637,18672,59638,59630,10769,59625,59623,59626,59629,59631,59627,30144,59635,38159,575,54981,4784,59622,39918,59621,59636,59640,59639,32666,85,59634,59641,4789],"class_list":["post-77940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-ovechkin","tag-alex-pietrangelo","tag-anze-kopitar","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-brent-seabrook","tag-cale-makar","tag-carey-price","tag-connor-mcdavid","tag-drew-doughty","tag-duncan-keith","tag-erik-karlsson","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-henrik-lundqvist","tag-henrik-zetterberg","tag-jonathan-quick","tag-jonathan-toews","tag-kris-letang","tag-leon-draisaitl","tag-marc-andre-fleury","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-network","tag-nikita-kucherov","tag-patrice-bergeron","tag-patrick-kane","tag-pavel-datsyuk","tag-ryan-suter","tag-sedin","tag-shea-weber","tag-sidney-crosby","tag-sports","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-vasilevskiy","tag-victor-hedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}