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The Euro-Captain
by Paul on 03/07/07 at 10:23 AM ET
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fropm the Star-Ledger,
What must Cherry be thinking these days, with fighting and physical play way down in the new-rules NHL, and the league so heavily populated by European players that no one bats an eye at the fact that 11 of the 30 teams are captained by a European?
Cherry passed on a request to answer that question, but others in the NHL aren’t that surprised by the influx.
“The NHL’s come a long way,” Brendan Shanahan, the Toronto-born left wing and Rangers assistant captain said a few weeks ago when asked about the proliferation of Euro captains. “In past years, there was definitely a stereotype and a prejudice against Europeans, and probably for some people, there always will be.
“But most knowledgeable hockey people realize that it doesn’t matter now where you’re born or where you grew up playing; desire is desire and leadership is leadership.”
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