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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It is exaggerations like these that really bog down this discussion. What you are suggesting is impossible, unless you choose to limit the definition of "core player" to only one, two or three players for every team.
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Ok well lets limit it to Gaudreau and Monahan then, they are supposed to be the two top forwards on the team and offensive leaders. They aren't effective and successful in the playoffs and if they need other players to make them effective and successful then they probably shouldn't be looked at or paid like top forwards or leaders on this team.
When you look at the last 10 years or so of Cup winners, they all have 3 things in common. They all have a number 1 center who is elite at both ends of the ice (O'Reilly, Backstrom, Crosby, Toews, Kopitar, Bergeron). They have a number 1 defenseman who is elite at both ends of the ice (Pietrangelo, Carlson, Keith, Doughty, Letang, Chara). They have a goalie capable of getting hot and stealing a number of games (Binnington, Holtby, Murray, Fleury, Rask, Crawford, Quick). We don't have any of those pieces. I don't see this team winning until they get those pieces.