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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.
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Monahan and Gaudreau are not paid like top-forwards—at least not relative to the pay-structure in the NHL where top-line players are now earning in the range of $8–12 m. And this essentially makes the same point that several have been arguing for in this thread and elsewhere: that is, that one or both of Gaudreau and Monahan should be removed from the core, and replaced by better or more effective players.
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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).
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Agreed.
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They have a number 1 defenseman who is elite at both ends of the ice (Pietrangelo, Carlson, Keith, Doughty, Letang, Chara).
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Since when is Kris Letang "elite at both ends of the ice"?
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They have a goalie capable of getting hot and stealing a number of games (Binnington, Holtby, Murray, Fleury, Rask, Crawford, Quick).
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And for several of these teams (Chicago, Pittsburgh, St Louis) the discovery of said capable goalie came as a rather sudden surprise.
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We don't have any of those pieces. I don't see this team winning until they get those pieces.
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That is a matter of conjecture, and it is also a big part of why I think then Flames would be well served to make changes to the existing core group.