You think you can win on talent alone? Gentlemen, you don't have enough talent to win on talent alone. |
I think it would be worth exploring as an additional way of seeing which teams have "the stuff." You know the stuff I'm talking about. Not just talent. But the willpower, determination, and discipline to to what it takes to become a champion. There are reasons that guys like Joe Thornton hasn't won a Stanley Cup in his long career but Jonathan Toews already has two.
As Herb Brooks said in Miracle, "We're not looking for the best players. We're looking for the right ones." Meaning, that when it's all on the line, talent will only take you so far.