 What would happen if Kale McCarr and Nicholas Lidstrom played together? We are going to see how many Stanley Cup championships the two can win together in the span of 11 seasons. We are also going to keep track of how many individual trophies the two can win for themselves within this simulation. With that being said, it is time to start the 1999-2000 season where Kale McCarr has been dropped in with Nicholas Lidstrom. In the first year together, the Red Wins finished 6 in the entire league. McCarr and Lidstrom had absolutely no problems finding chemistry with each other on the top pair of the Detroit Red Wins team. Nick Lidstrom will finish his year with a 0.71 points per game, notching 14 goals and 59 points and 82 games. Kale McCarr would finish his first season with a 1.1 points per game, finishing with 12 goals, 79 assists and 91 points. This kind of breakout season gave McCarr an easy path to find his first Norris Trophy paired alongside Nick Lidstrom. So that makes Kale McCarr up 1-0 in the individual trophy award category. Now it's time for the pair's first playoff appearances together, and we start off with round one where the duo and the Wings take on Pavel Burry and the Florida Panthers. The two teams will play a tight first round with the Red Wings forcing at game 7, where Nick Lidstrom would notch two goals and win a demanding game 7 6-1. Pretty clutch from Nick Lidstrom there. Lidstrom and the Red Wings would now go on to take on the Montreal Canadiens in round two, with the Wings looking to once again force a game 7 at home. This one ended in overtime with the Red Wings firing a new NHL record of 87 shots in a single game. Regardless of that record, Montreal would go on to beat the Red Wings in overtime 2-1. McCarr finished his first playoffs with a point per game, and the Ducks would later go on to win the cup, and Paul Correa took home the Con Smyth Trophy. So year one ended pretty well for Kale McCarr winning the Norris. For Lidstrom and the Red Wings, not too great in the playoffs getting bounced in the second round, but year two, the 2000-1 season, the duo were looking for some more of that same success in the regular season as they had together in year one. The team would finish just two points shy of winning the President's Trophy this year with the Maple Leafs coming out on top a point ahead. Lidstrom would have a similar year finishing with 52 points in 82 games, and Kale McCarr would finish just under a point per game with 75 points in 82 games, a little bit of a drop off for Kale McCarr after that first year. Neither players would go on to win any regular season trophies with the Norris Trophy going to Brian Leach. Lidstrom and the Wings looked to start a deep run in year two, taking on the very talented Ottawa Senators team. The Wings start the series off dropping both games on home ice, and then taking one on the road in Ottawa to show some life. The Sends would then go on to take games 4-5, therefore knocking Kale McCarr and the Red Wings out earlier than expected. The Blues go on to hoist, Lord Stanley Taken, the Sends down in four games, and Gary Roberts takes home the Conn Smythe, and the Red Wings have yet to win a cup with McCarr and Lidstrom as their top two defensemen. Moving into the 2001-2002 season, also known as year three, the Red Wings got a very deeper team, bringing in Dominic Haschick, Red Hall, Frederick Olsen, and Rookie Pavel Datsuk making his debut. McCarr would match last year's total in points with 75, they call him Mr. Consistent for a reason, and Nick Lidstrom would finish with a personal best, 16 goals and 66 points. Neither players would bring home any individual hardware, though, with the North once again being awarded the Brian Leach for the second straight year. The season three playoffs would have the Red Wings beating the Boston Bruins in five games in their round one matchup. The Red Wings would then move on to round two, taking on the Montreal Canadiens. The last time the two teams met, the Canadians knocked out the Larianne of Lead Red Wings and round two after the Red Wings broke the record for the most shots in an NHL game. This time, the Wings would get the better half of the Canadians, defeating them in six games. Moving them on to the Eastern Conference Final for the first time, McCarr and the Wings take on the New York Rangers. This series would be a cakewalk for the Red Wings with a four-nothing series sweep. For the first time in their careers, McCarr, Lidstrom, and the Wings would be heading to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they find themselves playing T. Musilani and the mighty Ducks of Anaheim. The Wings would find themselves dropping game one, four to one, but then go on to win the next four games, making them the 2001-2002 Stanley Cup Champions. McCarr and Lidstrom both get to lift up the cup for the first time together, and both are hoping that there are more to come. Only took three years for the duo to find a Stanley Cup in their career. They work fast. The Cons might go into Sergei Federov, who had an unreal playoffs, even though Kilmokar finished the playoffs with a 1.05 points per game. Moving on to year four, the 0-203 season, the Red Wings are looking for a repeat. After losing Hasik, the Wings bring in Curtis Joseph, also known as Kujo. The defending Cup champs finish in second, falling shy of the present's trophy as the Rangers went on to win it, with a 59-win season, an absolutely insane season from the Rangers. Nick Lidstrom would go on to have his numbers drop a little bit, finishing with 48 points, his lowest in the four years played. Kilmokar would go on finishing with 73 assists and 81 points. Both would once again not finish with any personal hardware, as for the third straight year, Brian Leach takes home the Norris trophy. What a tear Brian Leach has been on these last three years. And now we jump into round one of the playoffs against the Toronto Maple Leafs, and it did not go well for your Detroit Red Wings as they lost. In seven games to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the defending Cup champs bounced in the first round in year four. Year five, the 0-304 season, would have the Red Wings bringing back Dominic Hasik, they also had Ray Whitney, and Henrik Zetterberg feeling much more comfortable in his second year in the NHL. Lidstrom would go on to finish the year tying a personal best with 16 goals, and Kilmokar would finish with 83 points in 82 games. This kind of year finally knocked down Brian Leach's reign of winning the Norris for three straight years, and Kilmokar goes on to win his second Norris trophy. He now leads 2-0 in the personal trophy awards, with having two Norris trophies to Lidstrom's none. Moving into the playoffs, after a first round exit last year, the Red Wings were determined to have a much better run this time around. They defeated the Burry-led Panthers in seven games. They went out to face the Tampa Bay Lightning for the first time, where Dominic Hasik played a perfect 120 minutes of hockey, games three and four, notching back-to-back shutouts. Mokar and the Red Wings went on to beat the Lightning in seven games. For the third time in five years, the Red Wings are back up against the Montreal Canadians in the Eastern Conference Final. The second-time Lidstrom, Mokar and the Red Wings make it that far. Hasik continued with his stellar play, notching his third shutout of the playoffs with a Game 4 4-0 victory. The Wings would later go on to beat the Habs in seven games. Mokar up until this point is one behind Whitney of the most points in the playoffs thus far, really gunning for that consummate title if the Red Wings were to win the cup this year. Up to the Stanley Cup finals for the second time in three years, the Red Wings find themselves up against Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and the dominate Colorado Avalanche. They had an amazing year better than Detroit. With Mokar and the Red Wings down three to two in the finals, the Wings win Game 6, 6-3 and go on to forcing a Game 7. Their third Game 7 of this playoffs. They have played plenty of hockey this playoff run. Game 7 has the Av, scoring one very late to make it 5-4 and try to mount a comeback. But let's trim in the Red Wings, hold on and go on to win their second cup in three years. Mokar and Listerham once again hoisting the cup. Ray Whitney just beating out Kale Mokar to the con smith, leaving Mokar still looking to win his first playoff MVP. He ended up finishing this playoffs with 26 assists, 32 points and 27 games. Some pretty impressive stuff from Kale Mokar. Hopefully he finds an MVP trophy, a playoff MVP trophy in the near future. We move quickly over to the 0-506 season and the Red Wings wanting to once again try to repeat what they did the year prior. This time around, the Red Wings finish in seventh place in the entire league. The lowest this team has placed since year one. Listerham would finish the 0-506 season with a career high of 19 goals and 58 points. That man loves his goals. Kale Mokar would finish with a career high totals in goals with 14. A career high in assists with 80 and a career high in points with 94. He would go on to win his second straight Norse trophy adding to the 2 he already has. So if we're looking at the individual award score, it's Kale Mokar 3, Nick Listerham none. And a little side note Pavel Datsuk went on to win his first Selkie trophy. Shifting to the playoffs now, this would be by far the worst in their career for both Mokar and Listerham. Listerham finishing with 0s across the board and Mokar finishing with one point in their first world exit to the Pittsburgh Penguins in four games. An embarrassment for the two. Shifting to the 0607 season, the year seven, the Troy Red Wings would add some new personnel changes for Mokar and Listerham and the Red Wings bringing in the likes of Todd Bertuzzi and Robert Lang. The Wings would go on to win 45 games that season and continue their playoff streak of seven years in a row. Listerham would go on to finishing this year with a 0.76 points per game and Kale Mokar takes home his fourth Norse trophy in seven years and goes on to win the Norse in three consecutive years. Looking at the individual trophy awards now, four individual awards for Kale Mokar, two Nick Listerham's none. Shifting to round one of the playoffs in the 0607 season, it once again did not go very well for Kale Mokar and the Red Wings. They get bounced once again in the first round. Only this time in seven against the Buffalo Sabres. So so far we're seven years in, out of the two. Kale Mokar looks like the stronger player winning more individual awards. They both won two cups together so far. But the individual awards Kale Mokar has taken for a sweep. There are four years left. Four said years left until Nick Listerham retires, which he did in real life. He would have to win the Norse trophy in all four years to try to tie Kale Mokar. I think it's safe to say Kale Mokar has won the individual trophies. With that being said, we move on to the 0708 season and this is one of the worst years for the pairing in the Detroit Red Wings. The seven-year stretch of making the playoffs every year ends as the Wings finish with a record of 39, 31, and 12. Listerham finished the year with 19 goals and 49 points. While Kale Mokar had another great season with 69 assists and 80 points. Neither players finished with individual awards this season as Mokar's three-year Norse streak ends as Carolina Sidor wins it. And at the end of the season, believe it or not, Nick Listerham decided to retire from the NHL three years earlier than he did in real life. So we have to conclude the simulation there as he retired in the 0708 season instead of the 2011-2012 season. After all was said and done in these eight years, the Detroit Red Wings went on to win two cups in eight years. And the goat status between the two defensemen has to go to Kale Mokar after winning four Norse trophies. And three of those wins come in three straight seasons, which is something very hard to do in the National Hockey League. So there you have it. Kale Mokar potentially the better defenseman than Nick Listerham. That's what the simulation shows.