CatsforReinhart
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Try not to see it as a geopolitical statement. I'm sure he'd credit ovechkins style in some measure to Canadian players who came before him. Were all in this big hockey stew pot together. In a similar sense, neuvirth owes his style to French Canada, but we all share it now.
That is where you are wrong....maybe. Players take on a style usually they try to emulate a certain player or players. If Crosby says I grew up watching Lemieux and Gretzky and tried to emulate them then Soviet hockey has NOTHING to do with it.
What Rob is saying is about the game it is completely different then what I am talking about. Larianov makes a statement but Paxon takes it as an opinion. How Crosby styles his play is something that you need to ask Crosby, you need to ask McDavid, you need to ask Kane and Toews.
How the game is played on the ice is not what Larianov is talking about with the quote I posted. He is saying without Soviet hockey Crosby is not the player he is today.
There is two things here, the style of the game and the style of the player. When Larianov brings up Crosby and says his creativity is from soviet hockey that is BS.
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