However there is a problem that won't go away. Every team who wins the cup has bigger, meaner and tougher players as well as high skill
They're trying like hell to rule change this away but until they remove contact completely, or until the old guard referees that know how to call a game by the unwritten rulebook are all gone, they won't be able to pull it off.
You need power forwards and gnarly point men supporting your skilled players and goalie to win. You need Landeskog and Manson, not Gaudreau and Karlsson.
Absolutely right. Look at the Panthers, tons of skill, dominated completely by Tampa and the first thing they do is grab Tkachuk because he'll aggravate teams and force them into playing tougher.
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