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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Sure but just because a lamp was the first thing at the construction site doesn't mean the house was built upon it. Winning teams aren't build around wingers and if you have to show Lanny (part time player when won) Lemeuix (a center) or Maurice Richard (60 years ago) you probably don't have a good point.
Teams aren't build around wingers or depth at that position. The '89 Flames team was incredible strength down the middle and at D and that's exactly what the Flames will have to again to win. Bennett, Monahan, Backlund, Jankowski/whoever/whoever and Brodie, Giordano, Hamilton, whoever/whoever/whoever. That's going to be the building blocks of our team.
Guys like Jarome Iginla and Brett Hull are two of the best two ever play the games but ask the Flames or Blues how well it worked building around them.
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Good post.
You're right, I don't have a ton of more recent examples. You build around centres for the most part. I just figured his part that it "never works" to build around a winger was wrong, but I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for notable occurances proving otherwise.
Guys like St. Louis and Kane are sort of applicable here, but then they had Lecavalier and Toews down the middle.
