Ponder the following set of numbers...
11-18-29, +15
12-17-29, +8
12-12-24, -4
5-17-22, +6
5-17-22, +5
6-14-20, +2
7-9-16, +3
These would be the scoring/plus-minus totals for the league's top six scorers overall among centers in the games they've played since Thanksgiving...and Nicklas Backstrom.*
Backstrom, if you've been reading other blogs, was named NHL Rookie of the Month for December 2007.
Add to that Alex Ovechkin's being named NHL 1st Star for the week for the week ending December 30th, and it wasn't a bad week for two guys whose combined ages don't equal a Chris Chelios.
* In order: Jason Spezza, Pavel Datsyuk, Vincent Lecavalier, Joe Thornton, Sidney Crosby, Nicklas Backstrom, Mats Sundin.
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