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Originally Posted by BigTuna
Patrick Kane is not better than Kessel defensively. Zetternerg and Datsyul are also not close to Kessel offensively and have peaked already. Phil Kessel also has 13 goals, 21 points in 22 playoff games BTW. If he stayed on Boston he has a cup ring. It's a team game. Just like Toews has won nothing if he's on Toronto right now.
And Rielly and Nylander, JVR are already written-off as players you can't build around to win
' Be honest, you wouldn't say that about those players on the Flames.
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I included Z-berg and Datsyuk as examples of what they were on cup winning teams, and that was 6 years ago, so of course they aren't the same players now.
I never said that they weren't good players. You are misconstruing what I'm saying. I'm saying that it is unlikely that they become one of the top 20 or so players in the NHL and that unless the leafs have that it'll be difficult to see them win. I would expect each of those guys to eventually become top 200 guys (top 2 D-man in Reilly's case and solid top 6 forwards in JVR/Nylander's) however, just because you have solid talent doesn't mean that you're going to win.
If you look at all the cup winning teams, they were stacked.