Corey Perry

Khabibulin is second only to Turco on Datsyuk's "Owned" list. Its the perfect matchup.

Trade a top six forward, goalie prospect and picks for Luongo. Sign him to a Zetterberg-esq deal. Allows Lidstrom to retire within three seasons.

Russian 5.. They actually brought a style to this team and the NHL that was worth watching. Instead of gooning it up or clutching and grabbing.

Yes... and so did the pro writers association apparently. We get it, Swedes are great, Russians are bad. Datsyuk wins an award and it was a mistep by the writers or the players apparently and if Zetterberg wins an award its justified since hes the second best player in the world, the first spot obviously going to Nick Lidstrom.

Delusional, how so? Delusional to suggest that Yzerman wasn't the best player on this team post 1993? Or that I don't repeat the company line of "Lidstrom is the best player in the world, always has been since the beginning of time" Or "The writers got it wrong, Datsyuk is the second best defensive player on this team" Or "Smythe > 5 consecutive seasons of leading this team in scoring, 4 Byngs, 2 Selkes and a Pearson in a pear tree"

31 usernames and don't act as if the topics I start waste bandwidth or don't create interesting debates. You guys allow "5,000,000 posts for a win in game three" but act as if this debate is worthless. Its a good debate. The jury isn't out on Datsyuk, hes clearly the better player at this point. Even if Zetterberg is better defensively, Datsyuk outscored Zetterberg by 20 points. If we're going to go down the route of "Voters getting it wrong" than I would like to revisit a few of those Norris votes in Lidstrom's favor. I have no proof that he wasn't the best defenseman in the game, paid professionals who watch multiple players on a nightly basis picked him as the best defenseman in the game but I can just as easily say that he was in fact not Norris worthy. Datsyuk is going to go down in the book as winning two Selke's in a row and possibly more. It has also been seen, on multiple occasions that Datsyuk is the better player and this isn't just a "fluke" season. Datsyuk has led this team in scoring since 2003-04, he is a Selke winner, four time Lady Byng winner and he is a Pearson and Hart finalist. Zetterberg has a Smythe... It sad that it took till the Colorado series last season for the so called "Fans" of this team to come around to Datsyuk and now they're all on the bandwagon.. well when he starts scoring they will be on the bandwagon. I think more people need to realize that you actually have to play 100% in the regular season to actually make the playoffs, so the coasting, injuries and generally lower gear of play that the golden boy Swedes play in the regular season isn't as valuable as Datsyuk, giving it all every single shift and making players around him better. Datsyuk is in the same company as Ovechkin, Crosby and Malkin no one is prepared to make that comparison with Zetterberg.