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Ongoing NHL Thread Part IV - A New Hope

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Man Hejduk was probably the most overrated underrated player of all time.

800 career points, but only one season where he had over a PPG.
 

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Man Hejduk was probably the most overrated underrated player of all time.

800 career points, but only one season where he had over a PPG.

He certainly enjoyed playing against the Flames, always seemed to tickle the twine.
 

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He was a late bloomer (turned 24 during his rookie season) and he turned 30 just as the 04 lockout ended. Put up respectable numbers but he was nowhere near able to take advantage the way many others did of the “new NHL”.

But he was top 10 in goals 3 times (including a Richard win) and was second-highest scorer in the run to the 2001 Cup. More than Ray Bourque ever did in an Avs uni.
 

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He was a late bloomer (turned 24 during his rookie season) and he turned 30 just as the 04 lockout ended. Put up respectable numbers but he was nowhere near able to take advantage the way many others did of the “new NHL”.

But he was top 10 in goals 3 times (including a Richard win) and was second-highest scorer in the run to the 2001 Cup. More than Ray Bourque ever did in an Avs uni.

This. A 1000x this.
 

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I will say, the death of Czech hockey is sad to see. So many great players during the late 90s/early 2000s. Now, there's a handful or so.
 

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I will say, the death of Czech hockey is sad to see. So many great players during the late 90s/early 2000s. Now, there's a handful or so.

I think most of it can be attributed to the cost of playing hockey, Nasty. It's an expensive sport as we all know and I think kids are gravitating more to sports like soccer or other team sports that are less expensive than hockey. I also wonder how much the breakup of communism in eastern Europe as well as the splitting of Czechoslovakia in the late 80s has impacted youth sport in a general way.

Edit: My bad, Czechoslovakia did not break up until January 1st, 1993.
 
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I think most of it can be attributed to the cost of playing hockey, Nasty. It's an expensive sport as we all know and I think kids are gravitating more to sports like soccer or other team sports that are less expensive than hockey. I also wonder how much the breakup of communism in eastern Europe as well as the splitting of Czechoslovakia in the late 80s has impacted youth sport in a general way.

100% cost. I think when there was state run sports it was a nonfactor. Hence the huge dropoff in both Eastern European and Russian NHL talent.
 

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I think most of it can be attributed to the cost of playing hockey, Nasty. It's an expensive sport as we all know and I think kids are gravitating more to sports like soccer or other team sports that are less expensive than hockey. I also wonder how much the breakup of communism in eastern Europe as well as the splitting of Czechoslovakia in the late 80s has impacted youth sport in a general way.
you pretty much hit it on the head there, Dash. When I was deployed to Kandahar, there was a street hockey rink on base (thanks to you crazy canucks :suds:). You could reserve it for your unit to use. There was a group of us that loved to play. The guys that manned the ECPs at the time were the Slovaks. They were all big hockey junkies as well (two supposedly played for the Slovak Jr Nat'l team at one time).

Anyway, we got to know them pretty well, would play pickup games with/against them. I remember one time when we talked about the decline in Slovak hockey and they pretty much said what you said. Generally, they were the last generation under the old communist system. When they were kids coming up, every kid learned to play hockey because it was basically free under the communist regime. But after the fall of the eastern bloc, fewer and fewer kids were taking up hockey because it was now too expensive for most families.
 

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The Winnipeg Jets have signed Bryan Little to a six-year, $31.75 million contract extension. The deal carries an average annual value of $5.291 million, up from $4.7 million on his current contract. Little scored 21 goals and posted 47 points in 59 games last season.
 

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re Pastrnak-I hate it when young kids with one decent year are getting paid like established players. He better earn it!
 

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Thought the Bruins would have traded him for sure. That deal's a bargain if next season's the real thing and not a fluke.
 

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The Winnipeg Jets have signed Bryan Little to a six-year, $31.75 million contract extension. The deal carries an average annual value of $5.291 million, up from $4.7 million on his current contract. Little scored 21 goals and posted 47 points in 59 games last season.
I like Bryan Little but the fact he's going to be making only $1.35 million less per season than Pasternak, who had 13 more goals and 23 more points than Little last year and has the potential to widen that margin vastly during the course of these deals, highlights everything wrong with the current system.
 

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First event at Avs camp: Singing Kumbayah.
 

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First event at Avs camp: Singing Kumbayah.
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