probably win gold and silverIt'd be great if they could send a East and West Canada team to the Olympics. All those Quebec and Ontario kids (and Sid!) against all those good old Saskatchewan boys.
Just for fun: pick your team /lines.
Hall - McDavid - Stamkos
Benn - Crosby - Seguin
Marchand - Bergeron - Scheifele
Johansen - Tavares - O'Reilly
Toews
Possibly take Carter over toews
Burns - subban
Doughty - letang
Keith - Giordano
"Peter Angelo" - Don cherry
Or Vlasic, maybe Ellis
Price
Holtby
Jones
Vlasic and Tanev are both light years better than Subban or Burns defensively, they're your first line matchup.
Vlasic-Tanev
Doughty-Letang
Keith-Giordano
Burns
Spurgeon
Yeah, no.
You're not sitting or not taking the two best offensive talents on defense.
Canada's offense if good enough to control possession 60% + of the time.
I can see canada going 7 d with Vlasic on as needed rotation but Brent burns and Subban are on the team.
At least we have football. I finally get to root for a team that's not the Canadian Browns.Hockey so close... yet so far..
I could legit see the same conference finals again. Although the Ellis injury could impact that team worse then people think. I don't think the loss of Neal is a big deal.
I personally think the Oilers come out in the west tho. If they can get ANYTHING out of Pool Party, they could be a lot better then last year.
Oh yeah, and fuck the Leafs.
Eh, I think it's pretty inspirational. It'd be different if he weren't so amazing, but to be that good that long and never get a ring is so sad. Look how much seeing him with it meant to other Avalanche players like Sakic and Roy, and he contributed well in his time in Colorado. I'm a softy though, I wish all the greats would have their moment lifting Stanley.not a huge fan of the rental player mindset. don't care what anybody says, ray bourque is one of the best ever but his ring with colorado means fuck all.
If your argument is that it doesn't really change his legacy in the sense of skill/greatness, I agree.
It definitely means less, and didn't really change how I viewed him. I think it definitely changed how he'll be remembered though.it doesn't change his legacy and it means less than if it happened organically while he was in boston.
Hopefully that happens before Crosby and Malkin retire. Ways to go, but the League can be weird. I've been waiting for the Chicago/Pittsburgh showdown for years and no luck.my final four
east: pittsburgh and tampa bay (loss of drouin is big but i can't go against them)
west: dallas and edmonton
pittsburgh/edmonton final would be hotfire.