Found November 06, 2009 on
Puck Daddy:
PLAYERS:
Alex Rodriguez,
Alexander Ovechkin,
Joe Thornton,
Daniel Alfredsson,
Roberto Luongo,
Henrik Lundqvist,
Jarome Iginla,
Mats Sundin
TEAMS: New York Yankees, Washington Capitals, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, Calgary Flames
TEAMS: New York Yankees, Washington Capitals, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, Vancouver Canucks, New York Rangers, Calgary Flames
After Alex Rodriguez helped some team in some sport Leahy cares about win a world title, A-Rod evidently stopped being "the best player in all of American sports who will never win a championship." At least in the eyes of Dan Levy of The Sporting Blog. Levy, a lapsed puckhead from The Great Lockout Purge of 2005, called us today to ask if there were any players in the NHL that would fit that description: A star player who will "will end his career with utter disappointment" by not hoisting the Stanley Cup. We tried to talk him out of this first one. It didn't work:For nothing other than cheap heat, I'll say Alexander Ovechkin. Sure he's the most exciting player in the league and he's transcended the sport to become a, gulp, household name, but that doesn't mean he's going to win anything. His team is good, but he has a guy named Crosby playing in his conference, and that guy has a guy named Malkin playing with him. Of course, Greg Wyshynsk...
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