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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Disagree. There are lots of rosters in the league with 2 or 3 excellent players who are not very good teams. Look at Dallas. Or LA.
Putting together a supporting cast is much more difficult that people are giving the Pens credit for. If you don't have strong drafting and development you have to fill out the roster with expensive free agents, then you run into cap problems and you have to let good players walk.
Keep Crosby, Malkin, and Fleury on the Pens and replace the rest of the roster with the Stars lineup minus and Benn, Seguin, and Klingberg, or the Kings lineup minus Doughty, Kopitar, and Quick, and you do not have a very good team.
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Put Crosby and Malkin on any team besides the Pens and that team will be a cup contender and a winner within 2 years. It's almost a guarantee thing - why? Because any GM having those two superstars will build a team with supporting casts. What I'm trying to say is a contender is built if there is a strong base to build on from the start. If there isn't one, you're always going to be building and replacing pegs until there is at least one strong peg to build upon. The Oilers have done that for years and finally found their strong pegs in McDavid and Draisaitl. The Flames are going through that right now and there are absolutely no strong pegs in the fold yet with this rebuild.