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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
What you're after is an ideology. Sure, everyone in this league would love it if their star players were also excellent 2 way players, but that's almost never the case because they're extremely rare to find.
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They may be hard to find, but it's almost impossible to win a Cup without them. Crosby/Kunitz/Letang. Toews/Hossa/Keith. Kopitar/Carter/Doughty. Bergeron/Marchand/Chara.
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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Look at how much flack Phil Kessel and Justin Schultz took for being 1 dimensional players. Now they're 2 time Stanley Cup winners who were vital to Pittsburgh's playoff runs. Patrick Kane isn't a defensive dynamo either and he's got 3 Stanley Cups and a Hart Trophy to boot.
I think we can win a Cup with a Gaudreau.
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I think we can too. And I think a contending team can afford to have a player or two in its core who's one-dimensional. But they can't have three of four.