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EDIT: I was going to show the Wild's Division Championship Banner, but apparently you can't link from the Star Tribune website. It's pretty nice. Very understated.
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This one makes my head hurt. There is only one Stanley Cup champion per year.
Yeah, but there are many players on the team. Isn't "Champions" standard usage? Does any team use the singular in its banners?
Or are you talking about "1996 Champions" v. "1995-96 Champions?"
Not every player gets a Stanley Cup. There can only be one Stanley Cup champion. We (not you and I but in general) have had the discussion as to whether a team name represents a single entity or a collection of players. This one is more complicated by the Avalanche having a singular name.
"Your Stanley Cup champion Avalanche!" No?
Edit: To add to the confusion, the Stars have a banner that reads "Stanley Cup Champions" but also one that reads "Presidents Trophy Winner." So I guess it also matters whether you think the team is referring to the actual cup or the playoffs of the same name used to determine the winner of the cup.
I agree. I read it six times, and it still doesn't make sense. I think my frontal lobe went kablooey.
Also, every player DOES get a Stanley Cup, THE Stanley Cup, for a 24-hour period. So there.
Players in the "wrong" uniforms
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So you expect a kid who was BORN AND RAISED in Minnesota (which is in the U.S.) to play for Team Canada? Also, as Timaa said, Canada had no interest in Hull in '86, so it would seem they screwed him over before he "screwed" Canada over.
Hull also played for the University of Minnesota-Duluth, is enshrined in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, and is considered one of the greatest AMERICAN hockey players of all time. He's only considered Canadian because he was born in the summer, when the family vacationed in Ontario. The United States, being a very diverse country, have MLB and NBA players who hold American citizenship, even some BORN in America, play for other countries in the Olympics, World Championships, and what have you. They're not considered traitors by any stretch of the imagination.