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Originally Posted by herashak
keith = toews
Doughty > kopitar
Chara > krejci
#1 dmen are used more when it comes playoff time for most teams. For success it's been a horse on the back end eating up huge minutes, and depth at C but not necessarily the best #1 C. Really can't go wrong with either pick, ideally its ekblad this year and mcdavid/ eichel next year. but Noah hanifin is better than ekblad imo.
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Toews>Keith with their first Cup, at least in my opinion. As good as Keith was, Toews easily deserved his Conn Smythe.
I would put Doughty close to Kopitar, I know I saw that one differently than others but Kopitar would have been my second pick for the Conn Smythe behind Quick.
Chara was easily the more important player. No argument there.
Malkin and Crosby were far more important than Gonchar.
Zetterberg definitely earned his Conn Smythe shutting down Crosby. Lidstrom was no slouch of course.
Niedermayer, Pronger and even Beauchemin who averaged over 30 minutes a game each were more important than Getzlaf though.
Staal vs Hedican wasn't even close.
It's nice when you got both, but I think at worst a number 1 center is as important as a number 1 defenseman.