His skating "issues" are and always have been ridiculously overblown.
He isn't the quickest, but he is one of (if not the), strongest skaters in the game.
He has always displayed the ability to get where he needs to be, with and without the puck, and then be able to use his ass and his strength to hold his spot.
Just a tremendous hockey player....and the biggest pain in the butt to other teams in the game.
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