Updating the Mount Rushmore for all 30 NHL teams

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How's your summer going?

Since the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup back in June, I've had a hectic travel schedule of work, charity events and pleasure. Wisconsin twice in June for an Andy North charity golf event and Blake Geoffrion's charity hockey game, then off to Los Angeles for an ESPYS charity golf outing and a SportsCenter broadcast from ESPN's L.A. studio.

After that, a wedding in North Carolina with college buddies, then a week on Cape Cod with the kids. Al Pacino told me never to be a name-dropper, but I've had breakfast with Aaron Rodgers, interviewed J.J. Watt, had cold beverages with Adam Burish and rode an ESPYS golf shuttle while a chatty Barry Sanders asked me 50 questions about my job at ESPN.

August is back to a normal work schedule. Sunday through Thursday, 4 p.m. to midnight anchoring SportsCenter. So, why not throw in some hockey interweb content for you to chew on? Here we go.

Back in February 2009, I constructed a players-only Mount Rushmore for all 30 NHL teams. The criteria: a combination of impact, love and production, determined by using both sides of the brain, some research and some feel. It's not all about numbers.

August is the one month of the year when the lights on the NHL house are mostly off. So, to give you some by-the-water summertime reading, I decided to go back and look at the list again. Will the list for your favorite team be the same, or will it have changed in 6½ years?

I've included what I wrote in 2009, and an assessment of what has (or hasn't) changed since then. The players chosen for each team are in alphabetical order.