So anyway, good news for the NHL's 3rd and 4th lines for t..

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"Thomas" wrote in message

> Grande Mal wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> RK Player Pos Team GP G A P +/- ESP SHP PwPP HmP RdP ODvP DvP P/G
>>>>> 1 Sidney Crosby C PIT 79 36 84 120 10 59 0 61 64 56 71 49 1.52
>>>>> 2 Joe Thornton C SJS 82 22 92 114 24 60 0 54 65 49 72 42 1.39
>>>>> 3 Vincent Lecavalier C TBL 82 52 56 108 2 63 9 36 47 61 65 43
>>>>> 1.32
>>>>> 4 Dany Heatley R OTT 82 50 55 105 31 62 4 39 50 55 56 49 1.28
>>>>> 5 Martin St. Louis R TBL 82 43 59 102 7 61 11 30 46 56 56 46 1.24
>>>>> 6 Marian Hossa R ATL 82 43 57 100 18 52 4 44 59 41 67 33 1.22
>>>>> 7 Joe Sakic C COL 82 36 64 100 2 57 0 43 52 48 64 36 1.22
>>>>> 8 Jaromir Jagr R NYR 82 30 66 96 26 55 0 41 57 39 62 34 1.17
>>>>> 9 Marc Savard C BOS 82 22 74 96 -19 46 1 49 49 47 63 33 1.17
>>>>> 10 Daniel Briere
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Of the top 10 scores in the league last season, 80% were Canadian.
>>>> Careful. One of these knotheads is soon gonna be leaping about,
>>>> claiming that because Heatley's dad was playing in Germany when he was
>>>> born, he's not really Canadian.
>>> Yeah they've tried that before, I usually just point out that by the
>>> same logic
>>> Paul Stastny is Canadian.
>>
>> Let's take him. I hear Gretz is American now-
>
> Gretzky is as American as Nash is Canadian. Your pick. Either Gretzky is
> American or Nash is South African. You can't have it both ways.
>
> -Thomas

Nah, the whole thing bores me. You pick. You want Gretzky, fine, he's
yours. He's probably irretrievably American by now, anyway. Got the
Hollywood wife, the sunbelt hacienda- hell, I bet his kids can't even spell
'rumour'. He's gone a long way from his dad flooding the backyard rink and
he'll fit in with you guys better now, anyway.

External Since: Nov 16, 2005 Posts: 316

"Thomas" wrote in message

> Freedom Elz wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:38:43 GMT, "Grande Mal"
>>> wrote:
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>>>> "pawn" wrote in message
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>>>>> Nothing to worry about: looks like Canada will be able to continue
>>>>> supplying pluggers to the NHL for a while. I mean, let's not get
>>>>> ahead of
>>>>> ourselves here, Canada's 8 game unbeaten record (7 wins and 1
>>>>> tie..coached
>>>>> by a Sutter no less!) in the just finished junior hockey attempt to
>>>>> regain
>>>>> the magic of the '72 Summit Series (to our American friends: that was
>>>>> the
>>>>> ultimate tournament between Canada and Russia - you'd know it better
>>>>> as
>>>>> some meaningless nonsense before your Miracle On Ice) was impressive,
>>>>> but
>>>>> we're only talking about future NHL journeymen here. And before you
>>>>> argue about Canada's dominance of the NHL fluff market, the last 3
>>>>> straight World Junior titles further prove my assertion that we
>>>>> haven't
>>>>> lost our stranglehold on the 4th line.
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately there's just no way Canada's hockey talent can be
>>>>> compared
>>>>> to uber-talented Russian and other European hockey powers. We accept
>>>>> our
>>>>> new role as hockey backdrop for the real talent coming from Europe.
>>>>> And I
>>>>> don't mean to take away from the greatest hockey development system in
>>>>> the
>>>>> universe (the US college hockey system), but they weren't in the
>>>>> tournament, otherwise, I'm sure the American team would have dominated
>>>>> like they do in all international hockey tournaments.
>>>> Kinda sad, huh? I wonder just when it was we lost our grip on the game
>>>> and
>>>> the Americans took it away from us.
>>>> Oh well. Anyone for curling?
>>>>
>>> What's the matter? Don't you two ever learn? How about showing me one
>>> 4th line in the NHL that is composed entirely of Non-Candians.
>>> Using your standard of points scored as to how good a player is last
>>> season was the first in six there were Canadians in the Rob Five than
>>> non. Of the 20 worse scorers in the NHL that played 40+ games 75% were
>>> Canadian.
>>
>> RK Player Pos Team GP G A P +/- ESP SHP PwPP HmP RdP ODvP DvP P/G
>> 1 Sidney Crosby C PIT 79 36 84 120 10 59 0 61 64 56 71 49 1.52
>> 2 Joe Thornton C SJS 82 22 92 114 24 60 0 54 65 49 72 42 1.39
>> 3 Vincent Lecavalier C TBL 82 52 56 108 2 63 9 36 47 61 65 43 1.32
>> 4 Dany Heatley R OTT 82 50 55 105 31 62 4 39 50 55 56 49 1.28
>> 5 Martin St. Louis R TBL 82 43 59 102 7 61 11 30 46 56 56 46 1.24
>> 6 Marian Hossa R ATL 82 43 57 100 18 52 4 44 59 41 67 33 1.22
>> 7 Joe Sakic C COL 82 36 64 100 2 57 0 43 52 48 64 36 1.22
>> 8 Jaromir Jagr R NYR 82 30 66 96 26 55 0 41 57 39 62 34 1.17
>> 9 Marc Savard C BOS 82 22 74 96 -19 46 1 49 49 47 63 33 1.17
>> 10 Daniel Briere
>>
>>
>> Of the top 10 scores in the league last season, 80% were Canadian.
>
> Of the top 10 scorers in the league last season, four were Canadian, two
> were European, and four were French-Canadian.
>
> -Thomas

Wow. Aren't you the worldly, cosmopolitan raconteur. Maybe you'd favour us
with your analysis of the French separatist movement in Canada vis-a-vis the
Socialist politics of the Parti Quebecois and the urban-rural demographics
in Quebec.