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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I'm actually not sure this is true...and even if it is then it doesn't explain leaving off Misa and Parekh who just proved they could win by winning the memorial cup.
Colorado won a cup without grinding very much at all, Tampa won back to back. You can't be soft but in the end skill can still win.
In the end my personal feeling on this is that coaches like these types of teams better because they feel like they have more control over a team that is more of a defensive grind it out team than a team that's more of a purely offensively talented team.
But as a fan I don't want to see that TBH. In the end winning or losing is made up of a lot of different factors...roster, coaching, reffing, luck, other results, etc.
But as a fan in these major international tournaments I don't want to see Chris Kunitz playing with Crosby instead of Claude Giroux, or Kris Draper on a team instead of Sydney Crosby.
I want to see the best players playing together and Canada being entertaining. Canada winning the tournament by playing like they are some underdog team that needs to grind their way to victory is boring to me, even if they end up winning.
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It's very true, that's why teams load up on muscle (and pay a premium for it) going in to the playoffs. Those teams you mentioned had size and plenty of pushback in their rosters. Skill and speed still rule, but you need to be able to fight in the trenches, or you're done in the playoffs.