"These monuments in motion, these millionaires who wear the Canada sweater against the United States at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, make up the most talented team in Corey Perry's experience.

But it is not Perry's best team.

The London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League won 30 of their first 31 games in 2004-2005 and tied the other one. They finished 79-9-2.

They won the Memorial Cup, which brings champions of all three Canadian junior leagues together, when they beat Rimouski Oceanic, 4-0, in the final.

The Oceanic center was Sidney Crosby. Perry was interested in the tape of that game because he doesn't remember the final 57 minutes, after he was whacked in the head by Eric Neilson. He kept asking teammates what the score was. But he kept playing.

"He was in front of a microphone afterward and was just mumbling," said Geoff Perry, the retired policeman who built a backyard rink for his sons Corey and A.J. "He got concussed.""