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Players Headed South
by Paul on 08/28/08 at 04:22 PM ET
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from David Staples at the Cult of Hockey,
Lowe’s sweet tooth is for players who are heading into the non-peak years of their careers.
In recent times, Lowe has ardently pursued such players as Laraque, Michael Nylander, Ryan Malone, Marian Hossa and Sheldon Souray.
These players have two things in common:
1. They were all, once, outstanding contributors in the NHL.
2. They are all either on the wrong side of 30, or are soon going to be, and thus are heading into the years of their NHL careers where they are much more likely to be broken down and injured, playing far below their peak level of play.
If you look closely at Hossa’s play, he is already falling off, as Jonathan Willis reported at Copper & Blue. At even strength, Ales Hemsky outscored Hossa on a per minutes basis last year. “This is a guy talked about as an elite producer, and he simply isn’t,” Willis said of Hossa.
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