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Originally Posted by Wood
St Louis just did it unless you think Bouwmeester, a player they didn't draft, was the reason they won
In the last 40 years only 9 1st overalls have won a cup. Lemieux, Murphy (not with the team that drafted him), Modano, Lecavalier, Kane, Fleury, Crosby, Ovechkin and now Stamkos
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But some won more then 1 cup - And let's not exclude Gretzky who would have been #1 and won four cups.
If my Math is right including Gretzky its 16/40 teams that won the cup had a #1 on them (Some had more then 1)
You also have 4 cups from Detroit who was the first team to bring over all the Europeans. I don't think you are going to see the model of team building really work again
So excluding those teams as well, is basically 50% of teams had a #1 Pick