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[El Kabong]

Jesus I never knew Tom Barasso was American. I could be wrong but I think it's either him or Grant Furh who has the distinction of being the goalie who scored the most points ever (assists).

I never watched the full 1987 Canada Cup, just the highlights, because I was only a year old. I know that it's more than sticking a bunch of star players on a team to make a winning team, they have to work well together and I've never seen the kind of chemistry that this Canadian team had.

A team I do remember watching was the 1998 Canadian olympic team. They had two of the greatest goalies EVER, Brodeur and Roy. They had Gretzky, Sakic, Lindros, Yzerman, Shanny, Linden, Recchi, ect ect on forward. Stevens, Bourque, Pronger, Al Macinnis, ect on defense. It was such a great mesh of veterans and young super stars, it was an absolute dream team... and they couldn't even medal. It was sickening!

Again look who they played against, the 1998 US team was our best EVER and we finished 6th

Look at our roster: G: Guy Hebert, John Vanbiesbrouck, Mike Richter, D: Bryan Berard, Keith Carney, Derrian Hatcher, Kevin Hatcher, Chris Chelios, Brian Leetch, Matthieu Schneider, Gary Suter F: Jamie Langenbrunner, John LeClair, Shawn McEachearn, Keith Tkachuk, Pat Lafontaine, Mike Modano, Joel Otto, Jeremy Roenick, Doug Weight, Tony Amonte, Adam Deadmarsh, Bill Guerin, Brett Hull...the biggest thing they did in Nagano was fuck up a hotel

The Czech's had Hasek who was just un-fucking-stoppable Jagr, Straka, Svoboda, Hamarlik, Hedjuk and they beat a STACKED Russian team that even had the old satellite state players in there guys like Darius Kasparitus from Lithuania but they didn't have a goalie worth a damn because some political shit was going on behind the scenes and there were some injuries so:Nikolai Khabibulin, Alexander Mogilny, Igor Larionov, Slava Fetisov, Slava Kozlov, Oleg Tverdovsky, Vladimir Malakhov and Sergei Zubov, and Alexei Kovalev all missed the tournament. And the Finns what a team THEY had and they got the bronze: Kurri, Koivu, Lumme, Selanne, Niinimaa, Kapannen, Leihtenin, Tikkanen, Numminen.

Sweeden didn't medal and THEY had a boss team! Salo, Forsberg, Sundin, Sandstrom, Sundstrom, Nik Lidstrom! Alfredsson, Nylander, Renberg, Dahlen, Hedberg.

1998 was like THE pinnacle of professional hockey IMO...there were stars from EVERYWHERE and all in their primes or getting ready to hit their primes. Canada should have won (although the US should have been up there too), but it was like the Stanley Cup playoffs, the hot goalie took over and that was Hasek no offense to anyone else he just did his thing.