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SerenityNigh said:
My (probably naive) take is that this Avs team is actually really good but also really green. They'll be a dominant team after learning their lessons the hard way, and maybe adding one or two more of the right sort of player.

But who cares about them, this Stars squad is actually legit, right? It's a long haul to the cup and these are weird times, but this team feels nostalgic in the good ways.
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The two most telling stats of the game for me:

Hits: Stars had 60(!!), Avs had 29
Blocked Shots: Stars had 20, Avs had 4

No one ever gets far in the playoffs if they aren’t physical and Colorado isn’t doing any dirty work.
 
AndyC said:
Datsyuk joined towards the end of the best of the Russian Five.

Impossible to pick who was the best of the five, they were all such talented individuals who gelled in the NHL like no other five man unit.
Fetisov was an unreal defenceman; Konstantinov was so imposing as a physical presence, Koslov was under-rated, Federov was the speedster and most dangerous offensively... the lynchpin, architect was The Professor, Larionov… the thinking mans hockey player. An absolute genius of a playmaker, always referred to his playing at centre as being 'the Dispatcher' in that he dispatched the puck to his wingers to shoot or go deep before setting up one of the others.

If you get chance, find and watch a movie called Red Army, that focuses on Fetisov, it's a real eye-opener into how he and Larionov blazed the trail for other former Soviet Red Army players to break into the NHL.
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Late to the convo here due to a recent like on a past comment. What time frame is this...was Bure part of this squad? Alexander Mogilny? Lot of good Ruskies back in the 90's.
 

AndyC said:
Bure was with Vancouver, Mogilny was with Buffalo - both very good players. Bure was quick, very quick.
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Aye...I think I get it now, you're talking about a specific team, not an Olympic/National one. On my lunch break so just quick-hitting the threads...didn't have time to go back...just saw a bunch of names of former Russian NHL'ers!
 
Gwladys St. Glory said:
Late to the convo here due to a recent like on a past comment. What time frame is this...was Bure part of this squad? Alexander Mogilny? Lot of good Ruskies back in the 90's.
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All five of those players (Fetisov, Kozlov, Konstantinov, Fedorov, and Larionov) played for the Detroit Red Wings in the mid-late 90s. I don’t know if they all played on the same unit together because Detroit had so many good players, maybe they were on the power play together.
 
mmmmsnouts said:
All five of those players (Fetisov, Kozlov, Konstantinov, Fedorov, and Larionov) played for the Detroit Red Wings in the mid-late 90s. I don’t know if they all played on the same unit together because Detroit had so many good players, maybe they were on the power play together.
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Scotty Bowman used them as a five-man unit, not just as a powerplay unit - they were sensational
 

Looking like Dallas will go through, but they better hope Vancouver comes back to win the other series because Vegas would bum them
 

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