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

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> Gretzky was a whiny floater.
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What a hoot! You wonder why people don't take you seriously?

On Sep 17, 6:03 pm, xpene....RemoveThis@earthlink.net wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:56:38 -0400, "Freedom Elz" <k....RemoveThis@tifle.net>
> wrote:
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> ><xpene....RemoveThis@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> >>>Yes I can, because our system created both of them. Nash was here as an
> >>>infant, he didn't learn to play BB in South Africa.
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> >> and he sure didn't learn to play the type of basketball that made him
> >> a star while playing basketball in Canada either.
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> >JR and Modano both played Junior hockey up here, they didn't learn the type
> >of
> >hockey that made them Pros in the US.
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> Have you ever seen me claim that they were a product of a US hockey
> program? Nash might have learned to play basketball in Canada but he
> wasn't good enough to go pro until he played four seasons at SCU. Nash
> is a product of US college basketball

Okay, I don't disagree. But if that's the case how many Americans are
products of
our Junior A,B & C leagues?