The guys you listed here didn't roll around on the ice, faking injuries, on a weekly basis.He injured a Soviet in the 1987 Canada Cup victory for Canada. He cried when he won the cup. He spoke of family and commitment and country and desire for the cup through teary eyes. He gave it his all in the biggest games in Montreal, New Jersey, Colorado and for Team Canada. **** Draper. The Wings-Avs rivalry was a war and he epitomized it with the spark he ignited. (Shut up Cherry. You did enough to disrespect Howe and Gretzky with your Orr pimping over the years - not to mention your ridicule of Roy's name until your sidekick called you out on it in '95).
Lemieux, Tikkanen, Messier, Howe, Lindsay, Shore, Cleghorn, Lalonde...
All EXHIBIT the all-out determination to succeed, Lady Byng be damned.
Hence, I've come to appreciate Gary Suter, Pat Verbeek, Chris Pronger.
Hated Alfredsson. Aside from the fact that I'm a Leafs fan and I was just a kid when he came to the league, he did a lot of things I couldn't stand. Some dirty hits, the shot at Niedermayer in the playoffs, just came across as a bit of a rat to me.
Team Canada so scared of Forsberg's skills they have to deliberately injure him. Pathetic.
By the way, people can be paralyzed by such hits. But alas, it will always impress the "all-out determination to succeed" crowd. (Lance Armstrong and other cheaters had that mentality too, the "all-out determination to succeed")
I always hated Jacques “Captain Combover” Lemaire.
Messier, I hated too. Then he got traded to the Canucks and I thought “yay, finally he’ll be our bastard”, but he was just a shadow of his s.o.b. self. And I hated him more.
In fairness, that comb-over is pretty sad:As a coach I get it but Lemaire seems random to hate as a player.
Crosby: A whining pretty boy.
Crosby: A whining pretty boy.
Prettier than Ovechkin, Malkin, McDavid etc. It is something about his aura this is really annoying and irritating. Although he is a fantastic hockey player I really hope McDavid will surpass his career achievements. Some players you just dislike even tough there is no good rational reasons to do so.Crosby is not pretty by any reasonble standards. Very average looking individual with a slight nerd aura.
Prettier than Ovechkin, Malkin, McDavid etc.
Crosby: A whining pretty boy.