Is Lidstrom top Wing over the past 10 seasons?
That is the case I made over at Ace of Sports where they are conducting a tournament where fans will vote for the best athlete in Detroit over the past decade. Christy over at Behind the Jersey did a writeup for Steve Yzerman and Stevie Y holds a 61% to 39% lead.
I’m a huge Steve Yzerman man but for the time period we are looking at [the past 10 NHL seasons] I don’t think there’s any question Lidstrom is the top Red Wing. Heck, he’s probably the best player in the NHL over that timeframe. So please go and vote! I made my case over there so you can read what I read. Heck if you want to vote for Yzerman then go ahead but I am hoping that if you are visiting a Red Wings blog or reading this content during August then you are a hardcore hockey fan and have a good idea which player has really been the top dog over the past ten years.
Bill over at A2Y is doing a summer series where he is trying to figure out which team is the Red Wings’ biggest rival. This isn’t cut and dried like OSU is Michigan’s biggest rival in football, or a non-flammable couch is MSU’s biggest rival [I kid], or their own bullpen is the Detroit Tigers’ biggest rival, or general managing is the Detroit Lions’ biggest rival. So it should make for some interesting choices.
Earl Sleek over at BoC decided to help out with this endeavor and has put together an impressive post to throw the Anaheim Ducks into the competition for biggest rival. I don’t think there’s any team that has a better case over the past five seasons than Anaheim. With that being said I think Chris Pronger is the biggest rival and whatever team he plays for makes him public enemy #1 to Wings fans. Bill touched on it briefly in his post on St. Louis:
1998: Chris Pronger takes a puck to the heart, a scary moment, but thankfully one that didn’t define Pronger’s career. His dirty play, illiteracy, shady departure from Edmonton and his overall status as a frigging idiot did that. 2002: more Pronger and more Yzerman. This was classic Pronger. Takes a run at Yzerman, but is so immobile and lumbering that 19 turns it around on him, literally. Pronger leaps, wrecks his knee, stays on the ice long enough to take the slashing penalty that led to a Shanahan PPG, then limps down the tunnel. See ya Sasquatch.
Then you have his play in Edmonton where they knocked off Detroit and got to within one game of claiming the Cup. He forces the Oil to trade him for “personal reasons” and ends up in Anaheim where the Ducks knock off Detroit and go on to win the Cup in 2007. Just look at the replies in the comment section when Greg Wyshynski decided to offer up the opportunity to add a comment to the sponsorship section of Pronger’s Hockey Reference page. Now that’s a rival.
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