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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The only way Stamkos wins the cup is if he's a secondary piece on a good team. He's basically this generation's Brett Hull (even in the manner in which he scores most of his goals) Hull only won cups with teams where there were several other players that were better overall than he was. With the Stars, they had Modano, Nieuwendyk and Arnott, all of whom where better on the whole than he was and with the wings who had Yzerman, Fedorov, Shanahan etc in 01-02.
Tavares might, but boy do the Islanders need a ton of other pieces. It's basically only Tavares and a bunch of mediocre crap on the Island. He might be wasted there until they actually start to spend/draft well.
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I tend to agree with all of this, but with the rather massive caveat that all these players still have at least a full decade ahead of them in which to accomplish such a feat. The point here being that it is pretty foolish to make judgments about the relative value of the #1 pick based on drafts from the 80's and 90's in which the entire game and the business of hockey were COMPLETELY different. Draft picks have never been more valuable in the NHL than they are now.