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Originally Posted by bubbsy
strongly strongly disagree. What the bruins and that ducks team showed was just how dominant those generational elite dmen can be.
Pronger, Neidermayer, Chara were absolute stud dmen in their cup run years. Hell, just look at the fact that pronger went to the cup finals like 3 times with 3 different teams (oilers, ducks, flyers).
Flames have good top 3 d, but nowhere near what made those cup teams ultimately cup winners.
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I don't know if you're giving the rosters of those teams enough credits. Hockey isn't like basketball and teams can win a cup without a properly assembled roster with full effort. Look at Orr. During a time in hockey where the league was expanding every few years and rosters were made up of cigarette smokers on the bench, Bobby Orr only managed 2 cups. Likewise, Gretzky couldn't win a cup for LA.
I wouldn't put Chara in that list either. Thomas, if anyone, carried that roster to a cup. He put up arguably the best goaltending performance ever witnessed. Bergeron was playing with a punctured lung and that whole Bruins team beat on the Canucks.