What about giving Roy some credit towards Varlamov. I am sure an ex-elite goalie had something to do about improving his game, mentally and physically.
And beating his girlfriend.
What about giving Roy some credit towards Varlamov. I am sure an ex-elite goalie had something to do about improving his game, mentally and physically.
The same Patrick Roy who, after coaching a decade in the Q, never saw a goalie developed under him other than Cedrick Desjardins? And that he's been publicly lambasted by Louis Domingue (and subsequently backed up by Peter Delmas)?
And beating his girlfriend.
Pffft , all of them no - name goalies, nobody could have helped them.
Choosing NHL's top franchise player.
Craig Custance asked a dozen NHL executives, coaches and players to send in their top five franchise picks, in order, then assigned point values for each vote to come up with an overall ranking.
To keep things simple, there were no other factors brought to the table. It was simply a request to pick the five best players to build a franchise around. In all, the panel is made up of four current team executives (assistant GM or GM), one former GM, four current head coaches, one respected assistant coach and a player from each conference. The ballot of one of the coaches was excluded from the point total because he preferred not to rank them in any particular order. (The excluded ballot looked like this: Jonathan Toews, Steven Stamkos, Drew Doughty, Shea Weber and Jamie Benn.)
http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/cra...x_cid=InsiderTwitter_Custance_FranchisePlayer
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The List:
1. Jonathan Toews (43)
2. Sidney Crosby (41)
3. Drew Doughty (21)
4. Ryan Getzlaf (8)
5. Nathan MacKinnon/Shea Weber (7)
6. Anze Kopitar/John Tavares (6)
7. Carey Price/Steven Stamkos (5)
8. P.K. Subban (4)
9. Evgeni Malkin (2)
I'm still puzzled at how people would pick Toews (a 60-70 points guy playing with awesome linemates) over Crosby (generational guy playing with average or above average linemates)
But i'm just a fan...I guess we gotta trust hockey people's judgements...
I'm still puzzled at how people would pick Toews (a 60-70 points guy playing with awesome linemates) over Crosby (generational guy playing with average or above average linemates)
But i'm just a fan...I guess we gotta trust hockey people's judgements...