I never understood this.....the majority of the players are Canadian...and the majority of names engraved on the Stanly Cup are Canadian....a better benchmark would be the international tournaments, where the teams are comprised of 100% of their countrymen....and with all that said, who won the 4 Nations Cup a few months ago
With the realignment after 1980 or so, who knows. If they did it the old way, if they want viewership: Montreal/Boston Montreal/Rangers Philadelphia/Rangers Detroit/Chicago Chicago/St Louis Toronto/Detroit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stanley_Cup_champions
If Dallas is lucky Pete Debour has coached his last game for the Stars. I really disagree with pulling Ottenger and in particular, the way he did it. Rather humiliating for a guy who I didn't think was responsible for the 2 goals he let by.
DeBour said after the game “…the reality is, if you go back to last year's playoffs, he's lost six of seven games to Edmonton. We gave up two shots and two goals in an elimination game. It was partly to spark our team and wake them up, and partly knowing the status quo had not been working, and it was a pretty big sample size."
