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[QUOTE="Cowtown, post: 3007129, member: 2350"]
Montreal is a middling team at best that has no goal scorers. Yzerman doesn't score goals or block shots. Chicago finished at the top for so long there was nobody left to draft at 8 years of no. 30 picks. But we can play point-counterpoint all day and it won't really prove anything. And neither of us will see a line-up of NHL GM's outside our doors. :)

Anyway consider last year when an expansion team with no real stars almost won the Cup with their no stars, 4 lines model. Why is it they can get to the Cup final in their first year while other teams have been struggling for decades chasing success via the old model? That was the flare, this year is proving the warning out. The game has changed substantially and it's [I]SO[/I] much faster now than even 10 years ago.

And finally, The NHL can't survive without success among the American teams. But at the same time, American sports fans want a few stars on their teams, and there aren't enough to go around. Success will come to the teams that are ahead of the curve.

edit: and we still haven't addressed the problem with the officials. The playoffs are fun to watch during the first round, and even into the second. The semis and the final are boring, check-check-check, dump-and-change games. I expect this year it will be even more so.
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