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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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.
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A Pronger or a Niedermayer might = a #1 Center but a guy like Regehr doesn't even come close IMO. RR was a great defensive dman but had some clear limitations, skating and passing among them. Can't compare him to a couple of star (HoF) two-way dmen, not even fair to Robyn. Those guys were every bit as good as Regehr in their own zone but light years ahead of him in every other way.