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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I do, actually.
If they had O’Reilly and Josi instead of Stamkos and Hedman I think they still probably win those cups.
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If they had Dustin Boyd and Dustin Byfuglien, they would have won dustinfinity number of cups.
That's just baseless, useless speculation on your behalf.
So you think Pittsburgh would have won Cups if they had TJ Oshie rather than Sidney Crosby, because they drafted well in the depth rounds that so long as they got a good player, it wouldn't have materially impacted their results. Top players are irrelevant. Penguins would have won had they drafted Andrew Ladd rather than Evgeni Malkin.
Players don't actually matter, the key to victory is actually the unquantifiable "magic team work"? If that were the case, why did the Flames flounder with Sean Monahan while Colorado won with Nathan MacKinnon? Drafted same year, different spots. Both very good players, one clearly better than the other. I think Colorado drafted reasonably well outside of their top picks, as did the Flames - the Avs had the opportunity to draft MacKinnon, the Flames Monahan. World of difference.