There are a lot of pieces needed to make a Stanley Cup Championship, or for that matter, an elite NHL team.  Many have argued that the missing piece that put the Detroit Red Wings over the top was the acquisition of Brendan Shanahan.

Pavel Datsyuk might be one of the best stick handlers the world of hockey ever saw.

Norm Ullman was not the premier scorer in the National Hockey League, but when he had the puck, few could control it better than he could, and if there was a better forechecker in his day, we don’t know who it was.

Marcel Pronovost was in the Detroit Red Wings for a couple of years, and after tearing it up in the USHL, he was called up for the 1950 Playoffs.  Pronovost helped the Red Wings win the Stanley Cup, and he won Hockey's Holy Grail before he ever had a regular season game.