Hockey Sense: Nicklas Lidstrom (he's made a HOF career just because of his smarts on the ice)
Speed: Michael Grabner (uuhhhh, All-Star competition?)
Skill: Pavel Datsyuk (best puck-handler in the league, great stick defensively, and an excellent passer)
Hardest Worker: Ryan Kesler (that guy is just all over the ice)
Oh, and the nominees I put here are because the relevant skill sets seems to stand out as the core of the player's contribution.
HS: Markov and Tim Thomas. Both are averagely good skill sets but incredible tactical sense that allows them to leverage whatever they got.
Speed: Cole. Not much to say about him except he rush and skates fast, drawing penalties and doing breakaways
Skills: Kovalev. If you just appreciate the player for what he's worth and don't expect what he's not, you always end up dazzled by just how natural he is.
Hard working: not sure. I'd like to say Subban, but he's got speed and skills. I guess I'd go for Bouillon or Darches. They never stop giving their 100%
Oh, and the nominees I put here are because the relevant skill sets seems to stand out as the core of the player's contribution.
HS: Markov and Tim Thomas. Both are averagely good skill sets but incredible tactical sense that allows them to leverage whatever they got.
Speed: Cole. Not much to say about him except he rush and skates fast, drawing penalties and doing breakaways
Skills: Kovalev. If you just appreciate the player for what he's worth and don't expect what he's not, you always end up dazzled by just how natural he is.
Hard working: not sure. I'd like to say Subban, but he's got speed and skills. I guess I'd go for Bouillon or Darches. They never stop giving their 100%
Best H.S: Sidney Crosby
Best Speed: Anyone who doesn't say Helm is insane
Best Skil: Pavel Datsyuk, Steven Stamkos (Not at the level of Datsyuk but everyone is saying him)
Hardest Worker: Jonathan Toews, Ryan Kesler, Henrik Zetterberg, Martin St. Louis
Must be nice watching a game and only appreciating the skill of one team
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You know, when you have to balance your free time between responsibilities and a few hobbies, you don't get the leisure of watching 200 matches per season. Hell, I'm lucky to catch 50.
Some of us have other things to do in life than sit on their butt watching a tv screen for 3 hours.
And finally, I did tried to pinpoint players who's attribute was their main asset rather than going for the absolute best. no question Crosby has great hockey sense, but he's much, much more well-rounded than Markov or Thomas. If these two didn't had that specific gift, they might not be in the NHL.
While Crosby probably would make it based on the other things going for him. Not as dominantly, but he'd make it.
You know, when you have to balance your free time between responsibilities and a few hobbies, you don't get the leisure of watching 200 matches per season. Hell, I'm lucky to catch 50.
Some of us have other things to do in life than sit on their butt watching a tv screen for 3 hours.
And finally, I did tried to pinpoint players who's attribute was their main asset rather than going for the absolute best. no question Crosby has great hockey sense, but he's much, much more well-rounded than Markov or Thomas. If these two didn't had that specific gift, they might not be in the NHL.
While Crosby probably would make it based on the other things going for him. Not as dominantly, but he'd make it.
It was a joke. Just assumed you watched a lot of Montreal games, and since there IS another team on the ice, you might have noticed some of the skill. Guess not
It was a joke. Just assumed you watched a lot of Montreal games, and since there IS another team on the ice, you might have noticed some of the skill. Guess not
It would be presumptuous of me to assume I can rate the other players based on the very occasional time I get to see them. A player can be hot or in a slump at the time, and sometime, it takes time to start to appreciate the subleties of a player's skill or weaknesses.
I got to talk about Thomas due to the 7 game serie we had against him, which clearly depicted why he's such a great goalie.
As for Cole, I took the stats directly from the Hurricane's board. Asked what the player had going for him, and the almost unanimous assessment was "speed", which he uses cleverly for multiple purposes.
I thought me talking about what I know and explainingy choices would be a more valuable contribution to the conversation than list 4 superstars. I guess people here are happy with the "give your opinion in this nicely prepared form" format of discussion.
You are the one who has no clue. If you paid attention which you obviously didn't, Torts basically opened the door and a spot for Kreider to join the team this season. He decided to go back to college to play with his girlfriend. Unless you are unbelievably stupid, you can see there is a night and day difference with the attitude of a J.T. Miller compared to Kreider. Miller blew off college, said I want to play one year of juniors and then go pro. Kreider said, I want to go back to college and then spent last year tweeting about the Bruins in the playoffs. The Rangers actually had to tell him to knock it off.
Stepan left Wisconsin after his sophomore year and he didnt' have Torts opening the door for him like he did for Kreider. That shows you the difference between the attitude of Stepan and Kreider.
The main point your missing here in comparing miller to kreider is miller skipped college all together to accelerate his going pro, kreider already started college and has had the intention all along to finish what he's started, both paths are admirable IMO. But hey if you want to ***** and moan and make assumptions about his character and integrity because kreider didn't do what you wanted him to do go ahead, I know if I had paid the money and put in the time at BC I'd want my degree or whatever too.
