Crosbyfan
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go kim johnsson 514 said:Crosby should not have because despite Thornton playing like crap, he has been one of the best players in the league this season. Going down the middle, if you went with Lecavalier, Sakic, Staal, Thornton and Spezza, you can't go wrong with that. As good as all 5 of them were playing going into the break, that would have been.
Crosby might own Ovechkin in head to head action, but who cares? That's the NHL. An NHL where Ovechkin is the only legtimate scoring threat on the team. Team Russia had 3 #1 lines to throw out there and the line with Malkin on it was also spactacular. The Olympics are not the NHL, and as we have seen teams with player who aren't even in the NHL have played rather large roles on their respective teams.
The WJC's and Memorial Cup are not the Olympics. To go on top of that, Pat Quinn would have stuck Crosby on the 4th line anyways, and if you think he has been disciplined this season...wrong answer
For every forward you name before Crosby, Staal, or Spezza you need to use a different argument to justify it.
Thornton has a proven record of "playing like crap" when it matters. No surprise he did it again.
As for Crosby/Ovechkin you're right it's not relevant.
More relevant is that Ovechkin, had he been Canadian, would probably have been left off the team due to "lack of experience", probably put on the "Taxi Squad".
Gretzky and company picked the team like they were afraid to make a mistake.
They "choked", plain and simple, when they picked the team. Then they wished Lemieux and Yzerman were there to hold the hands of the "experienced" players they picked.