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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Yeah, playing with the greatest goal scorer of all time will do that. The guy was a great centre, but he’s not why they won.
But happily disregard me. ####, I’d throw Chicago on the list of teams who won with elite wingers and D and had a really good centre and good centre depth. Which I know is far from popular.
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The years where Ovechkin was playing with Kuznetsov, Backstrom was still posting 70+ point seasons. In 2016/17 they played together, and Backstrom had 86 points. Ovechkin? 69. Back in 2011/12, Ovechkin had 65 points because Backstrom only played 42 games (and scored 44 points in those 42 games).
But yeah, it was totally just playing with Ovechkin that made him good.