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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
What you want (one of the better ones) and how you define a group (which includes the better and the lesser) are two different things.
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Not only that, but even on a championship team it's rare to have a top-15 player at every position. Especially with a salary cap, you're always going to have areas that are comparatively weak.
Even the '89 Flames were that way. This was a team so deep and so dominant that it could have Jiri Hrdina and Theo Fleury fighting it out for ice time on the 4th line. But the top two LWs were Gary Roberts (before he broke out as a scorer) and Colin Patterson — and neither of those was a top-15 LW in the NHL at that time.