Not only can we still see those frontrunners, they seem more vividly real than the current Detroit Red Wings roster, strangely so. Steve Yzerman scoring on his back; Sergei Fedorov flying forward like a greyhound; Brendan Shanahan‘s bulldogging power forward finesse; Niklas Lidstrom as a paradigm of pure hockey efficiency; Pavel Datsyuk finishing tricks that no other dog on the paddock would attempt.
As for Zetterberg, he recalls the adage, it is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog.