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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
They absolutely are. Raymond/Seider a both good, but after that...
I buy into the models that suggest you need at least 5 stars to be a contender.
Which is also why we may be in for a long re-build in Calgary.
I think at this stage they have 1 or 2 potential stars (Parekh and Wolf) though there's a couple others w/ potential. But they need to bottom out to draft at least 2 more this year and next.
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I can’t find 5 star players on the rosters of 3 of the last 5 Stanley cup winners:
Stars and friends:
FLA - Barkov, Tkachuk, Bobrobsky (Ekblad, Verhaege?)
VGK - Eichel, Marchessault, Stone (Pietrangelo, Quick??)
TBL - Kucherov, Point, Hedman, Vasilevsky, Stamkos
TBL - ^^Ditto
WSH - Backstrom, Kovalchuk, Ovechkin, Holtby (Oshie, Kuznetsov?)
Star is subjective but the guys in brackets would be a stretch. Very good players but no on the star from me. Oshie would be the closest.
And for laughs, the 2024 oilers:
EDM - McDavid, McDavids acne, McDavids suit style sweatpants, Bouchards left eye (and only the left one), Evander Kanes AADAC sponsor.