It's a joke Keith Primeau is even mentioned in a thread like this. I'd put him in the same category as Paul Coffey, Dino Ciccarelli, Ray Sheppard, Larry Murphy, Todd Bertuzzi, Martin Lapointe and Doug Brown. Hasek won the cup in 2002 and played great in the playoffs 2007. Primeau's biggest accomplishment in Detroit was when he got us Brendan Shanahan from Hartford.
I don't get the votes here for Datsyuk, other than recency bias. I don't really get the votes for Fedorov, unless we were suddenly voting for 'most gifted player who wore our uniform', but I'd love to hear arguments for either of them, otherwise.
Stayed with Sawchuk out of stubbornness, but I'm not sure that there's a bad vote between what seems to be the next 3 guys who will go up. I guess, in hindsight, I voted for Yzerman (in 2nd) because he meant more to the Red Wings, and now I'm sort of reversing that vote (by picking Sawchuk over Delvecchio)... hm.
I don't get the votes here for Datsyuk, other than recency bias. I don't really get the votes for Fedorov, unless we were suddenly voting for 'most gifted player who wore our uniform', but I'd love to hear arguments for either of them, otherwise.
Stayed with Sawchuk out of stubbornness, but I'm not sure that there's a bad vote between what seems to be the next 3 guys who will go up. I guess, in hindsight, I voted for Yzerman (in 2nd) because he meant more to the Red Wings, and now I'm sort of reversing that vote (by picking Sawchuk over Delvecchio)... hm.
I think Dats and Feds are both in that 6-10 group. It's not like people are voting for Larkin here.
I think the only way one of them gets 5th is if Delvecchio and Lindsay split the vote.