2008-03-04

Brett Hull's Secret Plan


I think I found Brett Hull's cheat sheet! 

A week after the NHL trade deadline and I have come to realise something, Brett Hull is plagerizing his former team (so-to-speak) and making his Dallas Stars a whole lot more scandinavian.

Make way for IKEA Poang chairs in the Dallas Stars' dressing room because that is the new direction.

Dallas made a big splash a number of months ago by firing their long time General Manager, Doug Armstrong, and instead hiring the relatively unexpected duo of Les Jackson and Brett Hull.

Last week, in their first trade deadline day, the Stars made a deal with Tampa Bay that netted them Brad Richards and Swedish goalie Johan Holmqvist.  

To the chagrin of Oiler fans everywhere (Edm has been booted out of the playoffs by the Stars too often) Dallas has added fire power and goaltending depth.  They are now better and more Swedish.

The arsenal of Scandinavians now in the big D are Loui Eriksson, Niklas Grossman, Mattias Norstrom, Joel Lundqvist (NY Rangers goalie Henrik's brother), Holmqvist and not to mention their 3 Finns!  This is comparable to the 7 swedes in Detroit (Holmström, Zetterberg, Lilja, Lidström, Kronvall, Samuelsson, Franzen).

Perhaps it is the simplicity of Swedish design which has led to this new hockey philosophy.  Like the calming aura of a glimmering hard wood floor, offset by birch-coloured furnishings, so too can a whole starting line-up of towering scandinavians with cropped blond hair win hockey games.  

Or, so hopes Brett Hull.

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