The Tkachuk Brothers are a rarer breed these days. Sons of a rich rough nosed hockey player
When I was a kid, most of the people playing hockey were the sons of tradesmen, farmers, labourers, roughnecks, derrick hands, etc, etc, etc. Plenty of those guys were pretty rough customers and raised sons who weren't far off the mark in that way, too.
The biggest feeder of talent to junior hockey is the Greater Toronto Hockey League, and if you have a son talented enough to play in it, you'll be spending about $45,000 per year, just in fees, for the kid to play. You haven't yet bought equipment or travelled or anything else, and the expense is similar in every elite youth hockey league across the Dominion.
Due to that kind of expense, what are the occupations of the players' fathers now? Investment bankers, stock brokers, lawyers, doctors, etc. You still get some kids who are pretty rough around the edges, but there's just bound to be a lot less of them now due to the differences in upbringing between them and players of the past.
We did. So did the voters and most hockey fans. The journalists who voted sat in the press boxes at the arena and watched all these games. heir entire job is to watch and comment on hockey.
Barkov is almost universally being called 2nd place for the Smythe, with Bob way behind both. Panthers fans and the supermajority on every hockey discussion site agree on that.
