Anders Hedberg wouldn’t have breathed a word of it for fear of reprisal — like a blistering "errant" slapshot to his rear end during practice from an offended teammate — but had no problem stating his opinion decades later.
“We went to the finals in New York and I couldn’t say it at the time, but I can say it now: "I thought we had a better team in Winnipeg than with the Rangers,” he said earlier this week. “We had a unique team because we played different than anyone else.”
Speaking by phone from Sweden, Hedberg wasn’t denigrating the highly talented Rangers squad he was a part of during the 1979 Stanley Cup final, ultimately won by the Montreal Canadiens.