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Blame it on Cherry's "beat 'em in the alley" ideal of "good old Canadian hockey". He set hockey back 30 years in this country.
Anksun said:Doesnt want to break anyone bubble but...
Joe Sakic is not exactly the kind of player to comes out of a Country every year... all countries included!!!!
Many good small centers and wingers have been mentionned in this thread already, but dont expect a new Sakic out of Canada every year... And if there is not one in 2 years, it doesnt mean Canada have not produced good small players.
db23 said:Blame it on Cherry's "beat 'em in the alley" ideal of "good old Canadian hockey". He set hockey back 30 years in this country.
It's strange isn't it. Hal Gill is huge, but he can't hit!coolio123 said:After watching Hal Gill play awful in the first round against Montreal, I hope NHL scouts stop drafting extremely large players with no skill.
19bruins19 said:It's strange isn't it. Hal Gill is huge, but he can't hit!
I assume you have your always relevent statistical analysis to back this up?db23 said:Blame it on Cherry's "beat 'em in the alley" ideal of "good old Canadian hockey". He set hockey back 30 years in this country.
Ola said:...stopped producing players like Marc Savard and even Joe Sakic?
Canada is always going to be the prime producer of top talent in the hockey world. Great players like Thornton, Lecavalier, Heatly and Nash comes around every other year but small extremly skilled centers seems very rare these days. I don´t think it has anything to do with the trapping era, small centers like LaFontain posted great stats as late as 98´. Crosby will be a exemption but all of Canadas great seems to be atleast 6´2-6´3 these days.... I doubt the averege length of the kids today is 6´3 so I wonder where all talented kids who are under 6´ goes???
The top young canadian playmaking centers that comes to my mind are Briere, Savard and Comrie and all of these players have flaws in their game and there talent level can´t be compared with the greats mentioned above...
Hossa said:Gomez isn't Canadian and only Ribeiro and Richards can be called established offensive players. But not a bad point.
Gomez was born in Alaska, USATock said:I had a pizza delivery guy bragging about how his cousin is Scott Gomez.....i guess hes a stinking liar.