What it takes to win

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Gorilla Crouch found this 6/7/2008 on battleofalberta.blogspot.com [flag]
"That's why you build a good foundation -- so when you get an opportunity like this, you can go out and just do what you do." That's an approximate quote from this morning's Mike Babcock presser, which I just heard on XM204. It was actually fascinating, to me at least, given the nature of the (sparse) hockey discussion around this site lately. Any listeners hoping to hear about how the last ... [link]

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Stanley Cup Finals - three stars
Published 6/7/2008 by Dave at Gorilla Crouch
... But Chris Osgood is perhaps the perfect personification of Mike Babcock’s mantra of you go out and you do what you do. Did Nick Lidstrom, Brian Rafalki, Brad Stuart, Niklas Kronwall, Hank Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk, Valtteri Filppula, Johan Franzen, Dan Cleary and Mikael Samuelsson play a huge role in making Ozzie’s workload a very manageable 24 or so shots per game? Of course. The key is Osgood was able to shut the door on the lion’s share of those decent to high quality scoring chances. And that’s more than Dominik Hasek - a guaranteed Hall of Famer ...