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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
Don’t most good teams do this though?Crosby and Malkin won cups in their 30s with massive contracts taking them past their prime. Toews and Kaner same thing. Ovechkin. Stone. Stamkos. Like every single team that’s won a cup has kept their higher end players, signed them to massive contracts and then eventually won with those players. If we want to continue to be mediocre we will continue to bungle our higher end assets and not surround them with truly great talent but over payed UFA talent like Brouwer, Neal, Raymond etc. if we want to flip the script we will pay up to keep the top talent that we’ve invested so much time and effort into developing. Lindy isn’t the greatest example of this but it still rings true, most teams don’t let players like Lindy at the age he’s at reach free agency and there’s a reason for it.
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Pens won their last Cup when Crosby was 29 and Malkin was 30.
Hawks won their last Cup when Toews was 26 and Kane was 25
Super rare for teams to win Cups when their top guys are in their 30’s, it does not happen much.