Will keep beating the same drum.
A complete player has: Skill, endurance, high awareness in the O zone and just as high awareness and skill in the D zone, high compete, mental strength, size and physical strength.
EP40 and Hughes have all of those except the last 2. That is reality. They're all world with the puck, with their vision, they have great endurance and are great on both ends of the puck.
They are incomplete players though in the fact that they cannot match up well physically when a playoff type of heavy game gets going. That is their Achilles heel. That is their one deficiency as players.
If you can't see that or admit it that doesn't make it untrue. Both of them are 9/10 players.
Unfortunately, for us that 1 thing they're missing matters in the playoffs.
Sid, Bergeron, Mack, Hedman, Doughty....Real complete players.