Heads-Up: Coffey and Murphy were great, too!

One final word as a Pens fan. Yes, Chris Pronger and Scott Niedermayer are both Norris Trophy candidates playing in the prime of their careers. They are fantastic defensemen, both of whom will likely be voted into the Hall of Fame at some future point in their careers. However, the idea of two future Hall of Famers playing on the same power play is not exactly a novelty. I’ve seen the comparisons from the late nineties thrown out (Pronger and MacGinnis, Stevens and Niedermayer) and I’ve read about the comparisons from the teams of the 70’s as well. As a little girl who got hooked on hockey the first time I saw Paul Coffey rush the puck up the ice, as a kid who grew up expecting every championship team to be composed of 10 future Hall of Famers as my championship teams most likely were, I feel the need to add another pair to the mix. Back in 1991, Paul Coffey and Larry Murphy manned the points on the same power play. Coffey and Murphy, incidentally, are already enshrined in Hockey’s Hall of Fame (and in fact were enshrined on the same day). History will also note that Murphy and Coffey, playing on the same team and power play, won the Stanley Cup as members of the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1991.