Messier

"A Week After the Stanley Cup was Paraded around the Northlands ice, Jack Falla wrote an article for Sports Illustrated in which he heralded the coming of age of the cocky young Oilers. Falla enthused that 'the Oilers may well have launched a new era in the pro game,' adding that 'the sleek may yet inherit the ice.' "Perhaps so, but by voting to award Mark Messier the Conn Smythe Trophy, the hockey reporters seem to have concluded that, if the sleek were truly to inherit the ice, they would still need a big, combative hustler to lead the way." from Messier.Klein, Jeff Z. is the author of 'Messier' with ISBN 9781572435919 and ISBN 1572435917.