<< <i>I can't stand Sidney Crosby either, but we all might as well get used to the fact remains that he's probably the best player in the NHL right now, and he's only going to get better.
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Ryan Miller named tournament MVP.
Sidney Crosby not named to the all star tournament team.
What Olympics did you watch ?
Jonathan Toews was clearly the best player for Canada. How can you be the best player in the NHL when you weren't even the best player for your country ?
Sidney was invisible against team USA in both games. How did he do on that breakaway when Patrick Kane caught him from behind ? Ryan Keslers line ate up his line. Best player in the NHL ??? The NHL doesn't have a best player right now. It has a lot of good young players, but no one can carry the title as the best. To say so is just ridiculous. There is no Gretzky, Lemieux, or Orr in the NHL right now. >>
This is why I try to stay out of threads like this. One time:
I'm speaking of the NHL. I'm not speaking of a six game tournament (or seven for the Canadians) which featured NHL players. There is a difference. If Pujols hits .180 in the 2010 WS and Ortiz hits .430 with five HR's and is named MVP, does that mean that Ortiz is a better player than Pujols? I mean, come on.
Sidney Crosby is a very, very good hockey player. He is, in fact, probably the best player currently active, and if he's not the best he's at least in the conversation. I have absolutely no interest in getting involved in a 'who's better' discussion, for reasons I've outlined earlier. If you don't think Crosby is the best player in the NHL, then that's fine. Reasonable people can disagree. If you think he's not in the conversation then I think there's probably a lot about hockey that you don't understand. >>
You went from saying "he's probably the best player in the NHL right now" to "if you think he's not in the conversation".
I responded only because you said "he's probably the best". I would not have responded if you said "he's probably in the top 10, or "in the conversation".
He is one of the top players, but top players like Ryan Miller need to show up when it counts, or their "top player" billing starts to lose its luster. Even Gretzky said that he needed his big players to play big. If the big players don't play big, then they lose some of their credibility, aka Joe Thorton. Would you pick Joe for the next Olympic team ? But he scores a lot during the regular season.
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<< <i>Sidney was invisible against team USA in both games. >>
I agree, except when he scored the gold game winner. And that was nothing, other than being something???
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<< <i>I can't stand Sidney Crosby either, but we all might as well get used to the fact remains that he's probably the best player in the NHL right now, and he's only going to get better.
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Ryan Miller named tournament MVP.
Sidney Crosby not named to the all star tournament team.
What Olympics did you watch ?
Jonathan Toews was clearly the best player for Canada.
How can you be the best player in the NHL when you weren't even the best player for your country ?
Sidney was invisible against team USA in both games. How did he do on that breakaway when Patrick Kane caught him from behind ? Ryan Keslers line ate up his line. Best player in the NHL ??? The NHL doesn't have a best player right now. It has a lot of good young players,
but no one can carry the title as the best. To say so is just ridiculous. There is no Gretzky, Lemieux, or Orr in the NHL right now. >>
This is why I try to stay out of threads like this. One time:
I'm speaking of the NHL. I'm not speaking of a six game tournament (or seven for the Canadians) which featured NHL players. There is a difference. If Pujols hits .180 in the 2010 WS and Ortiz hits .430 with five HR's and is named MVP, does that mean that Ortiz is a better player than Pujols? I mean, come on.
Sidney Crosby is a very, very good hockey player. He is, in fact, probably the best player currently active, and if he's not the best he's at least in the conversation. I have absolutely no interest in getting involved in a 'who's better' discussion, for reasons I've outlined earlier. If you don't think Crosby is the best player in the NHL, then that's fine. Reasonable people can disagree. If you think he's not in the conversation then I think there's probably a lot about hockey that you don't understand. >>
You went from saying "he's probably the best player in the NHL right now" to "if you think he's not in the conversation".
I responded only because you said "he's probably the best". I would not have responded if you said "he's probably in the top 10,
or "in the conversation".
He is one of the top players, but top players like Ryan Miller need to show up when it counts, or their "top player" billing starts to lose
its luster. Even Gretzky said that he needed his big players to play big. If the big players don't play big, then they lose some of
their credibility, aka Joe Thorton. Would you pick Joe for the next Olympic team ? But he scores a lot during the regular season.