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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Anton Lundell is a Handzus type of player? He has 2 cups.
If you look at the best forward of the cup winning teams since the cap was introduced.
Elite offensive C:
Crosby x 3
Getzlaf x 1
Staal x 1
2-Way C:
Toews x 3
Barkov x 2
Kopitar x 2
Bergeron x 1
O'Rielly x 1
Datsyuk x 1
Eichel x 1
Star offensive W:
Kucherov x 2
Ovechkin x 1
Kane and Zetterberg are the only forwards that could be labelled the best on their teams. Zetterberg is also a Selke type winger.
I'm not sure why people think we need stars, and those stars have to be 100+ point guys. 200-foot 2-way players win more cups.
Crosby in his last 2 cups played more of a 200-foot game and gave up numbers to play a well-rounded game.
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I see your point, but that's such a weird way of picking 1 best forward.
I thought that P. Kane(Conn Smythe 2013) was the best forward for the Hawks, and an argument can be made for Tkachuk in FLA. Marchessault (Conn Smythe) and Stone in VGK. As you mentioned Zetterberg also won the Conn Smythe.
I agree that you don't necessarily need 100 point stars, since that doesn't apply to ROR(77P), Towes(81P), Getzlaf(91P), Barkov(96P), Kopitar(92P), or even Bergeron(79P). I mean Datsyuk had a career high of 97, so that's a pretty high bar. That said there were a lot less goals scored in the NHL from 2004-2018, and there were 3 x 100 point getters per season on average. For comparison there were 6 this year, 9 the year before that, and 11 the year before that.
IMO this is a team game, and a better way of looking at it is by counting star-seasons. A team needs at least 4 players having a star seasons(top 18.5% WAR) to be considered a contender.