re plus minus stat in ld b w w sms business uwo ca j david sms business uwo ca james david writes it was bryan trottier not denis potvin it was a vicious boarding from behind trottier was given a major perhaps it was trottier it happened behind the habs goal if i recall gainey simply didn t have his head up as he was picking up the puck but roger what the hell does this have to do with gainey s skill as a hockey player if probert smashes gilmour s head into the boards next week will that diminish your assessment of gilmour s skills if gilmour was taken completely by surprise as gainey was then yeah i would have to say that doug wasn t playing technically smart hockey in any case to claim as greg did that gainey never made a technical mistake is absolutely ludicrous gainey was a plugger and when the press runs out of things to say about the stars on dynasties they start to hype the pluggers grant fuhr essa tikkannen butch goring bob nystrom bob gainey doug jarvis derek sanderson wayne cashman bob baun bob pulford ralph backstrom henri richard dick duff and so on i would take fuhr and sanderson off of the latter good for you you d only be displaying your ignorance of course but to each his own i think gainey would be honoured to know that you ve included him i think gainey should feel honoured to know that he is remembered at all on this list i also think you have a relatively naive view about what wins a hockey game pluggers are an integral part of certainly pluggers are an integral part of any team and that is simply because there are not enough solid two way players to go around who would you rather have as your checking centre doug gilmour or doug jarvis for that matter i would take either gretzky or mario as my checking centres do you think gretzky could cover bob gainey any team the selke is designed to acknowledge their contribution i think that most people understand that it s not the nobel prize so settle down you re wrong again the selke is awarded to the forward that does the best job defensively and this may or may not be the best plugger if gilmour does the best defensive job in the league i don t see why he should be out of the running simply because he also contributes offen sively settle down if you think that i have likened the selke to the nobel prize then i suggest that you had best settle down and if you are going to try to put words in my mouth let me suggest that you settle down before you bother following up on my postings congenially as always jd james david david student business uwo ca you might consider developing your own style after all imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and i am quite sure that flattery is not your intention cordially as always rm roger maynard maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca
