Cursed Lemon
Registered Bruiser
Just a random point of discussion, there are some players who have won the Cup very early on in their careers and spent their whole careers trying to repeat that performance. Examples would include Corey Perry (lol) and Ryan Getzlaf, Jaromir Jagr, Alex Kovalev, Gary Roberts, almost Darren Helm before he won another with Colorado right at the end.
Obviously a professional athlete is going to be upset each year they fail to win a championship regardless of circumstances and obviously a ring is a ring, but do you think these guys have a kind of colored retrospective on winning the Cup before they really came into their own as players and drove the bus to some extent? That doesn't mean they didn't perform in their Cup winning years, but clearly no one is their prime form in their first couple of years in the league.
Obviously a professional athlete is going to be upset each year they fail to win a championship regardless of circumstances and obviously a ring is a ring, but do you think these guys have a kind of colored retrospective on winning the Cup before they really came into their own as players and drove the bus to some extent? That doesn't mean they didn't perform in their Cup winning years, but clearly no one is their prime form in their first couple of years in the league.