Ah, revisionist history. The elixir of life for every hockey fan. The anger-inducing could, should, would. We all like to complain deep inside. Sports fans are inherently stomach ache.
And there is no bigger what-could-have been than the one that comes with the design. When an NHL general manager makes a trade, we rarely know what was still available, who else he could have bought, or why he bought or sold at the price he made. But we do know the design of the results. It’s as easy as taking the guy who gets better than the guy you actually took. Correct? Correct!? Correct!?!?
This week, for two days, I will delve into the best and worst designs of all teams in the past 20 years, explaining my arguments for each team’s greatest triumphs and biggest failures – and some conclusions about overall design performance come from each team along the way (Note: some teams had several legendary classes while others had problems …
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