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Glen & CJ are secret Huns
Then you know nothing of the sport.
You cannot find any success in the NHL playoffs without an entire roster of players willing to sacrifice ANYTHING to win. There's no exaggeration here, this is 100% truth.
How many NFL players would take a 100mph rubber puck in the face? Likely none. Yet I could show you about 100+ NHL players that would do just that, just to make a single play in a single game.
Hockey is a sport where heart, desire and sacrifice trump all. Suggesting otherwise is just plain ignorant.
Canadians and the essentially adopted Canadians that grew up playing hockey just have a totally different sporting culture. The only guys who show even the faintest disinterest in winning get literally sent to Siberia.
The guys competing in the latter stages of the Cup playoffs get more and more banged up every night and yet every individual's intensity only goes up at the same rate. There has not been one player on any of the Stanley Cup winners since I have been watching hockey who I would slight as not determined purely to win the Cup.
And for every potentially greedy NHLer who's soon to be ejected I can think of 20 guys taking a veteran minimum for less than 10 minutes per game consisting of getting banged about in the corners, throwing themselves face first into a 90mph slapshot or taking fists to the face for their teammates' safety.