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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
This #1C stuff is overplayed.
If that’s the difference, why are the Vegas Golden Knights not down with the Flames in the standings?
They are the top team in the entire league
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Having the best 2-way winger in the game (Stone) helps a lot. VGK is an outlier in many respects; deploying Theodore + Pietrangelo and having Lehner/MAF start every game is pretty unique.
Pronger+Niedermayer+Giguere. Andy McDonald was roughly PPG for the two seasons coming out of the lockout. He and 21 yo sophomore Getzlaf* are probably among the weakest 1-2 punches to lift a cup.
*The first half of that season Getz was on a 30G 52P pace playing 13 mins a night. The second half of the season was 20G 64P pace playing 17:11. And then he lead the team in scoring in the playoffs. Clearly he was rounding into the dominant player he became by the next season, but he was certainly pre-apex on that cup run.
Toews-#2 (Sharp/Bolland/etc.) might be the other exception (in the sense that Sharp wasn't a pure C). Made possible by Hossa, Kane, Keith, and nearly unprecedented depth...)
The next 'weakest' 1-2 punches:
Backstrom-Kuznetsov
ROR-Schenn
#1C (or really two of them) really isn't overplayed. Who is the worst #1 to win a cup in the cap era?
Staal
Getz/MacD
Datsyuk
Crosby
Toews
Bergeron/Krejci
Kopitar
Toews
Kopitar
Toews
Crosby
Crosby
Backstrom
ROR
Point
It's not overplayed.