Just saying “Sakic/Forsberg/Roy Avs” is even a bit of an understatement. Also Adam Foote, Milan Hedjuk, Ray Bourque, Rob Blake, Tanguay, Drury, and for grit: Neimenen and Yelle.
That’s what - 5 HOFers on one team, plus a guy a who won the Richard (Hedjuk), a Calder winner (Drury), an Olympic gold medallist (Foote). These were all peak players, too, except Bourque. Sakic won the Hart and Pearson trophies that year and Forsberg won the Ross and Hart the next.
Yet Hartley lasted 1.5 seasons after winning the Cup. And in Atlanta he finished out of the POs every year except his third when they finished first but got bounced in 4 games by the Rangers who were not very good (which, around here, means you are a coaching failure). Then he was gone the next year after 6 games. Atlanta wasn’t exactly a crappy team either. Hossa was in his prime, they had Kovalchuk, Kozlov, Savard.
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