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Originally Posted by robaur
He has 3 inches and 30 pounds on MacKinnon and Drouin.
Skill is subjective. Physical attributes are not.
That's why Malkin has the Conn Smyth and not Crosby over a long, grueling playoffs.
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Malkin has the Conn Smyth because Babcock decided to play Zetterberg/Datsyuk and Lidstrom/Rafalski almost exclusively against Crosby to ensure he couldn't beat them and took his chances with the lesser player in Malkin going against his lesser players.
Size had 0 to do with it.
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Originally Posted by robaur
Canadian hockey hasn't produced much in past 3 years ...Hall, RNH, Yakupov.
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Canadian Hockey has produced the last 5 Calder trophy winners, 3 scorers under 22 in the top 15 of NHL scoring and 23 of the top 25 picks in the last 5 drafts but you are right why would anyone want to go with someone from that route with the terrible track record they have and the stud record that Russian hockey has lately at producing "gamebreakers."