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Originally Posted by united

No kidding! High IQ, competitive two-way players who score, crash the paint, and have non-stop motors in the defensive zone but do so while playing a supremely disciplined brand of hockey resulting in annual Lady Byng votes get you nowhere.

Patrice Bergeron? Anze Kopitar? Ryan O'Reilly? Pavel Datsyuk? Martin St. Louis? Nik Lidstrom? Patrick Kane? Sasha Barkov? Marian Hossa? Tough to win with "soft" players like that, especially in a 7-game series.

Joe Mullen