1. With his history of health problems, Mario Lemieux will be lucky to play more than 40 games this season.
2. Sidney Crosby may become a star someday, but I think he may be the most overrated NHL prospect in years. He's been described as the next Gretzky/Lemieux/etc., but his junior record doesn't give that indication at all.
3. Most of the players listed in this article are aging NHL stars who are long past their primes.
I agree.
Remember when they all called Eric Lindros "The Next One"?? He sure turned out to be a dud, not to mention a mama's boy.......
LET'S GO FLYERS!!!
2. Sidney Crosby may become a star someday, but I think he may be the most overrated NHL prospect in years. He's been described as the next Gretzky/Lemieux/etc., but his junior record doesn't give that indication at all.
3. Most of the players listed in this article are aging NHL stars who are long past their primes.
Let's look at what you've said:
Rules changes may help Lemieux more than anything else. Having said that, he'll probably play 60-65 games.
As for Sid, I think you're way off base. Overrated? Sounds like sour grapes to me. His junior stats look fine to me. What are you looking at?
"Most" are past their prime? Recchi can still play, LeClair, yeah, maybe, Odelein can still be effective, the rest of these guys are right around 30. Is that the cutoff age for "washed up" these days?
All in all, though, I agree that this talk of a Stanley Cup for Pittsburgh is, shall we say, premature. What Patrick wants to do is put a very competitive team team on the ice and wait for the many prospects in the system to come along in the next year or two (does the name"Malkin" mean anything to you?), and then we'll see.
As for the Flyers, I can think of no other team that may (may, mind you) be hurt by the new rules.