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Originally Posted by Jay Random
There was something just off about that year's roster. They lost some very important glue guys, not only McDonald, but Peplinski and Loob, and replaced them with highly skilled passengers.
I'd say both the 87-88 President's Trophy team and the '90-91 team with 50-goal Fleury were better teams. The '87-88 team had more talent, and the '90-91 team, while maybe slightly less talented, was slotted better and worked better together.
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yeah the 87-88 team was both highly similar, yet distinct from the cup team the year later. the offence on 87-88 was ridiculous. to the best of my knowledge to this day the highest scoring team in league history that didn't have either Gretzky or Orr on it. Yet two trades 6 months apart with St. Louis shipped out Hull and Bullard and brought back Gilmour, Ramage, Wamsley and Mark Hunter- offence went down but the team that was resulted was far more complete