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Originally Posted by Nordic
Zetterberg played like 4 minutes more per game, and alot of it in exhausting situations like pk - aswell as shadowing Crosby. Babcock wore him down, not Crosby. I'm pretty sure Z:s conditioning is every bit as good as Crosbys, probably even a couple of steps above. So.. if Crosby´s team hadn't won, Z would've been the better player? How can you say he led his team to the cup, when he was totally owned when it mattered?
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Because the players, coach, and GM have all recognized that he did exactly that. And seemingly most people watched him do it with their own eyes. By that I mean seemingly NOT the ones who are clinging to a couple of crutch statistics from 1 or 2 games of a Cup run (minimum 16 games of course) as support for an understandably unpopular opinion.
And Zetterberg's conditioning possibly being "a couple steps above", let me just say: haha hihi he he hohoho. There's no 'deep belly laugh' emoticon. But I will give you this: I think Zetterberg was played more in the 3rd period than Crosby in a bunch of games, while Crosby was used as much, or more, than Zetterberg in the first 2 periods. You could certainly use that in an argument regarding conditioning. Or you could chalk it up to being the games where Pittsburgh was holding a lead in the 3rd period and Detroit was trying to mount a comeback; sending out their best players as often as possible. I think I can guess which one you'll go for.
