Best Player you've played with or against?

[kovalchuk71 212]

Had to be John MacGuinness in Roller

[thomand52 0]

Best I've ever been on the ice with was Paul Coffey. He came out a bantam practice when I was playing and just put us through some skating drills. He was the most amazing skater I've ever seen. We thought we were pretty fast but he was able to spot our fast skater about a 1/3 of a rink lead and still beat him around the rink by a good 20 feet.

[xsvboy 0]

I played a game of shinny against crosby and derrick brassard when i was in quebec with my dad once.

[Nick23 0]

Well obviously not at his best now, but tonight my coached asked me to play with his russian rec team to get my legs going for the game tomorrow. They were playing a russian rec team who were over in England for a few days.

As we go to get on the ice a guy comes out with an old solviet red bucket, real old school, looked like it did nothing but stop his head getting cold.

Anyway, i found out that guy was Alexander Yakushev, 2 olympic golds and top point scorer in the 1972 summit series. 61 and you could tell he had that special touch.

I didnt get his autograph but they gave all the guys a shirt and a bottle of russian diamond vodka each. Happy days =]

[sickwilly 37]

Several guys who made the show in various settings. One game that stands out was playing against UVM when they had Martin St Louis, Tim Thomas, Aaron Miller and Eric Perrin - 4 future NHL'ers on the same squad. It was usually a recipe for disaster for us.

[nickyb13 9]

All roller but I've played with and against Dustin Roux(offered a try out in the DEL 2 summers ago)

Thomas McCollum who got drafted by the Redwings this summer

Also Kristen Miles who plays for Robert Morris University's Women's team kicked my ass in 1v1

[Hockeyman11385 1]

Several guys who made the show in various settings. One game that stands out was playing against UVM when they had Martin St Louis, Tim Thomas, Aaron Miller and Eric Perrin - 4 future NHL'ers on the same squad. It was usually a recipe for disaster for us.

Ah, those were the good days for UVM. That was a fun team to watch.

[oggy_3 0]

ya i played in a showcase with gormley, he is defiantly projected to be a first round pick in 2010

[texspeleo 0]

I've tried to play with a few D1 kids with astounding skills, but my hat is off to a man named Chevoyen (sp?). He's a 75 year old man from Yugoslavia who plays pick up at Colorado College, and frequently makes fools of guys 1/4 his age. Just listening to the amount of hockey history that he's seen, and watching the level at which he plays just blows me away.

[RadioGaGa 162]

I should have asked Ryan Ellis for shooting tips when I played with him last summer. He looks good for Team Canada so far.

[Cove 39]

Not me personally, but a buddy of mine played against Spezza. Avery is from the same town as me.

[maxamillion 3]

a couple guys play drop in around here that had pro tryouts but didn't make it. there was also this kid that played for air force academy and grew up playing with paul gaustad. the kid is farking nasty. 0-60 in 2 strides.

[thegreat1 0]

i played puck with kenny ryan, cam fowler and kevin lynch back when i played for honeybaked and played against aj jenks and countless others. but i have surfed with paul kariya and keith carney out in california then went out to eat with them which was unreal at the time

[jjmills22 0]

tj oshie, scott hartnell, ben hanowski, james vanriemsdyk, alexei kasatonov (at 50 somethin), bunch of devils alumni (dowd, starikov, etc etc) there all just on another level

[kakos26 0]

Storm Chester- he is a power forward with tons of raw talent!

[bostonjuniorblackhawks 1]

one of the best that I've played against is this kid in my junior league who somehow ended up on the Latvian u-18 junior team

[AdamCV 0]

Best I would have to say would be Ryan Jones now playing with Nashville agian

[Jarick 5]

A few weeks back I played some shinny at my local park with Jenny potter, 3 time Olympian. Just amazing how she could keep the puck on her stick. Her husband was pretty ridiculous too, former gopher.

[tips09 0]

Evander Kane in midget for me

[Fire Walker 22]

Played in a couple charity games against the NHL Old Timers. Tiger Williams, Glenn Anderson, Bryan Trottier, Cliff Ronning to name a few.

[LivHockey84 0]

On one occasion i played with David Legwand when he was still a Plymouth Whaler. It was for some camp i went to when i was younger, i also did a 1 day camp thingy with the red wings trainers and Mickey Redmond...by far the quickest snapshot i have ever seen.

[heatley15 5]

When i was younger i played against Taylor Hall. Its crazy how he is going to be drafted 1st overall this year

[shotty 7]

jason spezza, gilbert brule, brendan morrison

players who i thought would be better:

aaron voros, matt cooke

[JDeezy 0]

jason spezza, gilbert brule, brendan morrison

players who i thought would be better:

aaron voros, matt cooke

how long ago did u play with Voros and what kind of player was he?

[shotty 7]

he was with albany at the time, i think it was a year or two after he was drafted, so maybe 2003? he seemed pretty uncoordinated and a bit sloppy skating. i played with him about a dozen times and nothing changed (i'm no top prospect, but i felt as though i had more skill [and i'm fairly humble]) so i figured he was done with pro hockey.... THEN when he first made his appearance in the nhl, he was like a TOTALLY different player, style/size/confidence/et al. i was super pumped for him, and even moreso when he signed with the rangers, which he made clear to everyone around him, was his #1 choice.