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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I also thought it was weird. They had a 1C already. It's like Tavares was available so they couldn't resist.
OTOH there were really no star defencemen available that year. At least not after Carlson extended with the Caps.
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Well, at one point, it was pretty common for the Stanley Cup champs to have two 1Cs: Sakic-Forsberg, Yzerman-Fedorov, Modano-Nieuwendyk, Crosby-Malkin but it is tough to maintain this with the salary cap.