Ryan Van Horne
aka Scribe
there is actually a lot of swedes who have left to play in the nhl this season. and a lot of the stars have left. i have seen like a million sel games and a feaw rsl games and imo the russian league is better. its a lot faster. and in the european cup or whatever its called. the russain teams are allways better then the swedish teams.
Great. Thanks for that. That makes Malkin's stat line all the more impressive. Anyway, back to the original point. Malkin is a better player until Kopitar outplays him at the NHL. However, I don't think the gap is as big as many people thought. I'm not trying to say Malkin was overrated, he seems like a beast, but I think that many people underrated Kopitar. He's very good and I'm glad I have him on my hockey pool team, but I'd rather have a healthy Malkin.