Was able to watch quite a bit of the World Cup over here in Germany. Pretty cool tournament as a whole. Really could've used the US to do ANYTHING in order to generate a little more interest. Also would have been nice to see the young guys make the playoffs. I think hockey fans are going to have to become WC fans because I really don't think you are going to see NHL'ers in the Olympics for awhile.
It's a pretty cool time in hockey with some many high quality players in the game right now. Toews, Crobsy, Ovechkin, Kane, Tavares, Benn etc.. It's hard to pick between 19 and 87 but if I was starting a team, I would likely go with 87. If you look at production over careers or even in the last 3 or so years, I would be willing to bet that 87 is well above and beyond 19. Both are great leaders, sure Crosby whines a lot, but he has a lot of respect from people based on his work ethic. You just can't put a price on a guy that you know will put up points for you game in and game out. Just my 2 cents.
*** Went and looked it up. Crosby has 273 pts over 237 games in the last 3 years. Toews has 192 pts over the exact same amount of games. Thats an insanely big difference!!***