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Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsJul. 11, 2022 at 11:59 p.m.
Thread: Richard Lindsay Hart
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>X27</b></div><div>Not according to people who know better than us.
I agree McDavid is more of a threat and far more exciting - even capable of being a far better game breaker... but, I don't think he's as complete a player as Mathews. A consensus on who is better is splitting hairs really... the difference is 0.5 - 1% either way. McDavid destroys defense... Mathews humiliates goaltenders.</div></div>

Matthews won the Lindsay and Hart and he deserved them, but I don’t think that means he’s better than McDavid. McDavid is still better. Even this season McDavid still put up more points than Matthews. I still take McDavid over Matthews any day but it’s no shame being the second best player in the league. Matthews is incredible.
Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsJul. 9, 2022 at 1:16 a.m.
Thread: Proven Anatomy of a Champion - My Essay
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>X27</b></div><div>Everything about your essay is flawed the moment you claim that no team has won a Stanley Cup with a 10 million dollar player while ignoring the following...
- no significant cap increase in two years (to ignore this is a glaring error... the difference in that lost cap space is literally the equivalent of Tampa being able to spend 9 million over the cap)
- ignoring the fact that Tampa Won two cups while using a roster significantly above the cap because of LTIR.
- Colorado has been able to take advantage of having a 10-12 million dollar player who signed a long term deal before anyone realized he was worth 10-12 million... that's just luck</div></div>

Adding to what was said by X27 here, teams like Colorado and Tampa had superstars that out perform their contract, basically shows that paying people based on their impact (i.e., giving the top players a large portion of their cap) would have worked had it not been for the flat cap. Which just means that now Tor needs to get lucky with their bottom 6 and other role players, and goaltending, so that they have players playing beyond their contracts. I wonder though why didn't Boston win recently (perhaps in 2019) with all those stars with 6m cap hits.

That being said their is no real formula to a winning team, any team that makes it to the post-season can win at the end of the day, but only one does each season. There are people being paid to analyze things because there are people paid to "build" winning teams. So, things are analyzed and aspects of championship teams are copied or people hope to copy (get yourself a Vesi, and now it's get yourself a Makar or both). In the end though, a series can be determined by a bad call, a missed call, a lucky bounce, or an untimely mistake. So, perhaps one day a team with a 10m+ AAV player will win but it's a matter of fortune.