Rob Blake
[In Blake] the Avalanche landed one of the league's top three defensemen: a player with a 100-mph slap shot who also skates well, moves the puck smartly and can obliterate opponents with a vaudevillian thrust of his backside. "I saw this big ass coming at me, and I didn't think much of it," Oilers winger Anson Carter once said of Blake's patented hip check. "Then it pretty much broke me in half."
-- Kostya Kennedy, SI, March 5, 2001
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