http://blogs.thescore.com/nhl/2014/0...in-the-hockey/
This article from a couple of years ago accurately profiles what true toughness requires in the NHL today, IMO.
The more players on your team that are willing to pay the price in order to gain, keep or regain the puck in what has become a puck possession game ....determines how tough that team plays.
Getting to tough areas and winning the puck is what it is about these days.
Puck races, puck battles are what the game is all about today,
Patrice Bergeron?
Yep.