Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Save of the Decade (But REALLY THN?!)!!

The Hockey News (THN.com) has labelled Marc-Andre Fleury's save on Lidstrom's shot in the remaining seconds of Game 7 of the 2009 SCF as the "Save of the Decade" in their latest issue of the magazine ("The All-Decade Team") featuring the best in hockey from 2000 - 2009.

Game of the Decade - Game 2 of the 2009 EC semi-finals between the Washington Captials and the Pittsburgh Penguins in which both Ovechkin and Crosby recorded hat tricks ... "Sick game," Ovechkin said afterwards." "Sick three goals by me and Crosby."

I have no issue with either of the above (how could I?!); however, the joke here is that out of all the players they chose to be on their "All-Decade Team," NOT ONE is a Pittsburgh Penguin (where the hell is Gonchar, Crosby, or Malkin?! For crying out loud, Lemieux played for a little in the 2000's!)!!!

See for yourself and let me know what YOU think!!

THN's ALL-DECADE TEAM:


FIRST LINE - Joe Sakic (C), Alex Ovechkin (LW), Jerome Iginla (RW), Niklas Lidstrom (D), Chris Pronger (D)

SECOND LINE - Pavel Datsyuk (C), Daniel Alfredsson (LW), Ilya Kovalchuk (RW), Brian Rafalski (D), Robyn Regehr

THIRD LINE - Rod Brind'Amour (C), Jay Pandolfo (LW), Jere Lehtinen (RW), Colin White (D), Willie Mitchell (D)

FOURTH LINE - Kris Draper (C), Jarkko Ruutu (RW), Chris Neil (LW)

GOALIE - Martin Brodeur; and backup Ty Conklin

SHOOTOUT SPECIALIST - Jussi Jokinen; ENFORCER - Donald Brashear; COACH - Mike Babcock; GM - Ken Holland

AND HERE'S TSN'S ALL-DECADE TEAM
for the Pittsburgh Penguins

1 comment:

Life_As_A_Redhead said...

ENFORCER - Donald Brashear

HUH????