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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
Besides Chara (and maybe Boyle) who was available? I guess if you could have fortold the future, would have known Willie Mitchell could have been one, but at the time, Regehr was good enough to make Team Canada World Cup team, so he was one of the top 6 Canadian defenseman in the NHL..... not easy to replace.
That lineup is pretty bad because Phaneuf was playing sheltered minutes, so Leopold-Warraner (or Leopold-Sarich) is our top pairing D - thats pretty ugly.
Also - trying to remember timelines of the deal, but if you make the deal for Thornton (Regehr/Kobasew/??) then you don't make the deal for Tanguay or Langkow. So, which line looks better?
Tanguay/Huselius - Langkow/Conroy - Iginla
Regehr-Aucoin
or
Huselius/Moss - Thornton - Iginla
Leopold-Aucoin
???
Not really that straight forward of an answer.
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I've always thought a stud d-man is pretty much = stud centre when building a cup winner or contender. Look at what Edmonton did the one year Pronger played and they got decent goaltending.
And consider that San Jose had Thornton (and he played just fine IMO) and didn't come that close to a cup. Mainly because their defence wasn't great.
Reg was very good then. Best defensive d-man in the game IMO. In that one World Cup he was assigned to Jagr and shut him down really well.