This is a thought that has always rattled around in my head, and it was brought back to the front burner this weekend when I read Hooks’ post on the Penguins’ Russian World Cup of Hockey team and saw Aleksey Morozov featured.
If you were to hop into a time machine and go back to Morozov’s Penguins career you would probably find that he was a focal point for criticism for not becoming the star player he was supposed to be.
In some way, it was an understandable position.
He was a highly touted first-round pick, and for years we kept hearing about how he was always the best player not playing in the NHL.