Datsyuk joins Triple Gold Club

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Love Datsyuk and I'm happy for him. My second favorite player of all time only behind the captain. But this feels hollow. Weak competition and they didn't even win in convincing fashion. I wonder if it feels a little lackluster for the Russian players that have competed in true best on best tournaments. It can't be as satisfying as it would if all the pros were there.

I doubt he cares honestly

 

[lawrence]

wait, Kovalchuk should be in the triple gold club no?

 

[Acallabeth]

wait, Kovalchuk should be in the triple gold club no?

Of course, he had some of the most historic Stanley Cup wins with Atlanta and New Jersey. He's only omitted because of that ridiculous anti-Russian conspiracy.

 

[vorky]

A few reasons. Conceptually it is like an award for winning awards, not unlike the award for outstanding achievement in the field of excellence. It's weird that the IIHF created it and promotes it when one of the accomplishments is not connected to the IIHF at all. It's very odd to include one domestic league championship with two international accomplishments. It's a pretty blatant attempt to promote the IIHF's main tournament (World Championships) by associating it with two far bigger brands in the Olympics and the Stanley Cup that the IIHF doesn't control.

It would make a lot more sense if it was something like IIHF U18, U20 and WC, or even WJC, U20 and Olympics. If it gets more players to agree to play in the World Championships then that's fine, there's certainly no harm there, but it consistently causes my eyes to roll.



Datsyuk is not a diver of note.

If "conceptual father of the Triple Gold Club" is Szymon Szemberg, we can not be suprised why it includes one domestic league championship.

 

[Sentinel]

Voynov will this club sooner or later.

 

[Henkka]

I'd like to know how many guys are on the Four-Gold club ?

Stanley Cup
Gagarin Cup
Olympic Gold
World Championship.

Datsyuk should be.

 

[ref88]

He's definitely in the club, but the WC's don't mean much to me since they aren't close to best-on-best, and this medal obviously has the asterisk of being won in a non-NHL Olympics.

I mean, it is the same way with his 2002 cup, where he was, what, the fourth-line center? It technically counts, but really?

Lol, what?

 

[eviohh26]

Don't forget the Mushroom Cup boys. I'd wreck you guys at Mario Kart.

 

[BMann]

He's definitely in the club, but the WC's don't mean much to me since they aren't close to best-on-best, and this medal obviously has the asterisk of being won in a non-NHL Olympics.

I mean, it is the same way with his 2002 cup, where he was, what, the fourth-line center? It technically counts, but really?

What a laughable statement. So every other player who has won a SC ring playing on the third or fourth lines should also chuck those into the bin ? In the record books and in years to come there will be no asterisk by the title or the medal. Only for those who want to see it that way to belittle due to their inherent arrogance the gold medal. As I said before I'm sure Datsyuk one of the finest players ever to grace the ice will lose a lot of sleep from comments like these.

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My favourite player in recent times I hope he goes into coaching kids and how much of becoming a top class player is a very strong work ethic and refining ones skills while being humble about it. He's one of the very few recent Russian players who could make it into an all time Russian team. Magnificent player and person.

 

[SovietWings]

Do all the Stanley Cups before 1990 have an asterisk too? Because the best Russians and Czechs weren't there so it shouldn't count..it wasn't best-on-best.

 

[BOS358]

Datsyuk will always have an asterisk next to his name, much like Tomas Jonsson, Mats Naslund, Hakan Loob, Valeri Kamenski, Alexei Gusarov, Slava Fetisov, Igor Larianov, Alexander Mogilny, and Vladimir Malakhov.

Aside from the World Championship being a joke, the IIHF needs to update their records to indicate that Peter Forsberg joined in 2006 after winning a REAL gold medal. The people of HFBoards have spoken, and we know more than the players and the IIHF. (/sarcasm)

 

[Peiskos]

This thread is hilarious and to claim that Datsyuk is a legitimate member of the Triple Gold Club just devalues the membership for all the players who actually entered it by having to go through all the best International Teams at a legitimate International tournament.

Who did Datsyuk's team have to go through to win olympic gold? like lets just sit down for a minute and stop pretending that "Russia" are Olympic Hockey Champions and as if that actually means something.

Russia has yet to win a gold medal at a best vs best tournament since 1981. The entire 2018 Olympic hockey tournament will have a lasting legacy of doping, cheating (OAR) and a tournament completely devoid of the world's best hockey players. In other words slap the biggest asterisk in history next to the 2018 Olympic Hockey tournament.

 

[BOS358]

This thread is hilarious and to claim that Datsyuk is a legitimate member of the Triple Gold Club just devalues the membership for all the players who actually entered it by having to go through all the best International Teams at a legitimate International tournament.

Datsyuk is not the only one of the "pretend members" of the Triple Gold Club. In fact, the first three "members" "earned" their membership in 1994. Not to mention Mogilny.

 

[Incognito]

Datsyuk is a legend and surefire HHoFer who accumulated a laundry list of damn impressive accomplishments throughout his illustrious career. That being said, this ... isn't really one of them. He's more like a "Technically Triple Gold Club" member (and he's not the only one).