I actually did none of those things... I'm not sure how bad your desire to be right about this must be to be able to convince yourself to interpret what I wrote in that way. It's like some sort of case study in self-delusion.
Toews has, several times, been a significant part of a group of 20+ guys who won a two month tournament. The same reasoning goes for the Olympics. Team accomplishments are not player accomplishments. You compare player quality by comparing player ability, by the degree to which they help their team win, not by whether the team in fact wins. This is why goalie win loss record is quite possibly the most meaningless regularly-referenced stat in hockey, and even a goalie has MUCH more of an impact on a team's W/L record than their arguably-best-forward does.
To some extent, the only data we have is counting stats, but that's not really the case anymore given how much we've watched these guys play hockey the past 20 years.
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