2 parades are lookin might good!!

Q- is the talent in front of Ozzie better now or when he won the cup?

I love quoting myself----

That's an interesting question.

Head to head, I'd have to go with the "when they won the cup" team. That was pre-salary cap and that team was STACKED! Although, I think Ozzie is playing better today!

Great point..... you can't really compare this team to the teams pre salary cap... to be more fair... you need to compare how good the wings of those cup wins were compared to the league then, and how good we are now compared to the league now...

In theory this team should have a much smaller margin of error as the teams should be closer in talent.... This team is on a 9 game win streak, team record.

This team is playing as great as any wing team in that teams era.... if that makes sence.


Also, I have much more confidence in ozzie now to make the clutch save then I did 10 years ago.

It is an interesting dilemma, for sure. I would say that the older team had more talent, when you're talking about Larionov and Robitaille on the 3rd line, you're talking about some talent. At the same time Avs had Sacic, Forsberg, Foote, at or near their peaks. There was a handful of good teams including Wings at this time, so I agree that to compare you'd have to look at Wings vs. the league, and it is a mighty difficult task with all the parity cause by salary cap.

Ozzy himself confessed that in order to survive in this league he had a couple of years ago to learn "butterfly style" and luckily for him he had greatest teacher who you can ask - Hasek. Ozzy claimed that butterfly greatly helped to restored his career.

For those who do not know: "butterfly" for goalie is method how to protect your territory even if you are already down.

I think you're right Round. But you don't hear anyone saying hot goalie. And those 1999-2003 teams got their butts kicked by those Avs.
We know Ozzie is bad...
But the media is like, who has a chance to stop this juggernaut !!!
Let's see if Crosby can save the world.

Ozzie has actually been better this season than he was during the year when Wings won the cup with him in the net. He's not going to stop everything, but he'll make the timely save. And at this stage it is all that is requested from a goalie. That's why all the media is on Turco's behind - he hasn't played bad by any means, no soft goals. But he hasn't made the save when it counted and it contributed to Dallas being on the brink of elimination.

Wings just got screwed on one of the worst calls I have ever seen...goaltender interference and Holmstrom wasn't even near the crease. Very sad. Hopefully, it won't cost them the game.