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Originally Posted by Kasi
The question was can you build a cup winning team around 2 players making 20% of the teams salary. The answer to that is an obvious yes. Now does Edmonton have a good enough GM or enough minor league talent to pull it off? Likely not, but it’s not going to because of McDavid and Draisaitl.
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Except Crosby/Malkin take up 22% of their teams cap and McDavid/Draisaitl take up 26%. You can debate Crosby vs. McDavid all day long (I still take Crosby) but Malkin is far and away a better player than Drai. As far as trying to compare the rest of the roster:
Murray/Talbot: Murray’s injury prone but is still better than Talbot, especially with Talbot’s play last season and so far this season.
Letang/Klefbom: Neither is great defensively although Letang is slightly better than Klefbom in that regard. Offensively, Letang blows Klefbom out of the water.
Kessel/anyone: Edmonton does not have an elite shooting trigger man like Phil. Lucic was supposed to be that guy but he’s a 6.5 million dollar 4th liner. Maybe you could argue RNH but he’s not even approaching Kessel’s tier.
As far as the rest of the roster: Sheary/Hornqvist/Guentzel/Bonino/Shultz >>> RNH/Strome/Caggiula/Lucic/Larsson.
Also Rutherford is a much much better coach than McLellan.