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They Provided Us Thrills
by Paul on 07/09/09 at 02:11 PM ET
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from Michael Farber of Sports Illustrated,
10. Mario Lemieux
The icon of Pittsburgh’s 1991 and ‘92 Stanley Cup champions did not have speed. But even without that fundamental building block of excitement, he was thrilling because of his unique ability to take time and make it stand still….
9. Dominik Hasek
A goaltender? Sure. Hasek was from the Czech Republic but he probably vacationed on Mars. For 16 seasons beginning in 1990, he tended the nets like an extraterrestrial, playing a style that had its own internal logic even if the rest of the world had no idea what he was doing….
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