As long as you have fedorov, lidstrom, shanahan, hull, robitaille, chelios, larionov, datsyuk, holmstrom ...
yeah its always funny when the Lidstrom vs Bourque comparisons come up and the wings fans speak like Lidstrom single handedly won those cups and would have in Boston too the years the Bruins made the finals vs the Oilers.
When we said "ok, pretending Shanahan and Neely are a wash, you are cool swapping Yzerman and Fedorov and Larionov for Ken Linsman and Janney and Kasper, and losing Larry Murphy, Fetisov and Konstantinov and for Gord Kluzak, Glen Wesley and Alan Pedersen"
Its almost obnoxious. Every thread for Yzerman they act like he single handed won the cup for them. Every thread for Lidstrom gets the same. When Fedorov vs Gilmour comes up, they act like his clutch playoff play was the cog that turned everything. Shanahan was the missing piece!
The Rangers were the notorious big spenders who ate up most available UFA's whether they fit the mold or not, but most forget that the wings had a nearly identical salary most years and spent huge to keep homegrown talent, trade for missing pieces and sign available UFA's.
In a salary cap era, they would have been boned.
