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by Paul on 05/29/09 at 08:18 AM ET
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from Ron Cook of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
There has been plenty of talk this spring about a widespread conspiracy in the NHL. Word in Philadelphia, Washington and Raleigh, N.C., is that the league wanted the Penguins to get to the Stanley Cup final and did everything it could to make it happen, going so far as to give beneficial calls by the referees to the sport’s poster boy, Sidney Crosby. Well, I’m here this morning to dispute that vigorously. I don’t think the NHL officials are nearly that smart.
They’re just lucky, that’s all.
Lucky to have the incomparable Crosby and Evgeni Malkin under the bright spotlight on hockey’s grandest stage for what figures to be a marvelous two-week run.
And lucky to have the defending champion Detroit Red Wings as the opponents in a blockbuster sequel to last year’s entertaining Cup final.
from Damien Cox of the Toronto Star,
You can make an argument that any one of five current NHL players can stake a claim to being the best player on the planet.
Three – Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin and Pavel Datsyuk – are finalists for the Hart Trophy as regular-season MVP.
One, Henrik Zetterberg, was named Conn Smythe Trophy winner last spring as the best player in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
One, Sidney Crosby, is the current favourite to win the Conn Smythe this spring.
Four of these players – Malkin, Crosby, Datsyuk and Zetterberg – are participants in this year’s Stanley Cup final, the NHL’s greatest showcase, which begins tomorrow night in Detroit.
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