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Registered: April 2010
Location: Also, sadly, Cowtown
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| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 15:05 |
| JPro wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 13:15 |
| Kr55 wrote on Tue, 23 June 2026 12:26 |
Right place, right time, success backstopped by an endless list of HHoF players.
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I've been reading a lot of comments online about how anyone could have won a cup with some of the teams he coached. I feel like that could be said about some of the McDavid era Oilers teams too - some pretty incredible rosters outside of goaltending - and yet it never gets done.
If Babs pulls it off, it'll be pretty epic.
I still maintain he doesn't last more than a season. It'll be an entertaining circus ride regardless.
Any word on the terms of his deal? I wonder if he squeezed Daryl for the full 5x5
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I think there is another tier of what the wings had with Lidstrom/Yzerman/Zetterberg/Datsyuk/Chelios, and toss in guys like Kronwall, Rafalski, Holmstrom, Draper. I'd actually question why that team didn't win more than they did in the 2000's. Big choke job against us in there.
We had 3 guys basically, carrying a whole group most of the time, with some huge weak links that were trying to kill us the whole way. Sadly, the weak links caught up to us in the end, either by themselves, or because our top guys were just dead from exhaustion by the final round having to carry the group through 3 rounds.
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Apples vs oranges comparison there. Wings spent to the moon, no cap. The Rangers spent even more at times with no success at all in the 2000’s. It’s not as simple as some assume to win a cup. With some better injury luck we could have won 2.
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