I love them both. Tough, gritty, team players, wear-their-heart-on-their-sleeve kind of guys. True embodiment of the game.
Definitely throw back, too. I could see these two playing along side Maurice Richard in the old days of the Original Six.
The game last night was entertaining in a more pure hockey playoff way -- no shenanigans like Game 3. Gotta love the skill, determination, and grit being displayed in the greatest game on earth.
My comment about last night's game is stolen from Pierre McGuire (I think he's great, too). Pierre talked about the fact that in the "old standard", a team like Chicago never would have been able to come back from a 4-1 deficit. A team like the Flames would have slowed the game down to a miserable crawl. That's why I love NHL hockey. It drives me absolutely nuts when I hear people cry and moan about tighter penalty standards, ESPECIALLY THAT INVOLVE OPEN ICE SKILL-TYPE PLAY, like you heard at the beginning of this WCHA. Now...I can't prove it, but I would say that a main reason you saw such great hockey action in this year's NCAA Tournament is because of the new standard.
Don't people realize what a great product that college hockey, high school hockey, youth, and NHL could have if we let the skilled players play and penalize the guys who want to clutch, grab, and make it the slowest game on earth?
Game 5 is gonna be a treat as well. I know my tivo is set!
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