Almost 17 mil in ltir and still a serious STANLEY CUP CONTENDER

What does having people on LTIR impact being a contender?

One happens to be probably the best winger in the league. How many teams could lose a player of Kucherov caliber and still be a serious Stanley Cup contender one Tampa Bay Lightning that’s it

Is Brian Boyle out there anywhere happy to sign a league min to play forward and d?

He lives in Orlando to

Well, Kucherov is not the best winger in the league; imo. Also there are multiple contenders that can lose one of their top players and still be a contender

who is better?

I think that Kucherov is definitely one of the best wingers, but overall I would put someone like Stone, only because he’s a better all around player.
(Note: I don’t hate Kucherov, I like the guy, he’s a great player one of the best in league, but I’d like his overall game to be better)

Kucherov is much better defensively than people think but I’ll even concede top 3 for argument sake who else would be a favorite FOR THE CUP

With the Division realignment Tbay is in a way easier path. No B's, no Leafs, no Habs.

Habs they’d be 5th at best in central. Toronto stayed healthy and got lucky would be third And Toronto is the best team in the Canadian division

Canadian division sucks

Favorites for the cups:
Colorado Avalanche
Vegas Golden Knights
Philadelphia Flyers
Just to name a few cup contenders

Which of those teams if you took their best player off the entire season would still be a serious cup contender. Maybe Colorado

Lol Mack off the Avs. That would be brutal

Yeah without Kucherov everybody will tell you Tampa Bay still a serious Stanley Cup contender

Kucherov is the best player in the league

I don't think it sucks. It just doesn't have that my Iles ahead team. It's got the Leafs and then (maybe with the moves Ottawa made this off season) a division full of wildcard teams. It's possibly the tightest division top to bottom.

And the top team which is Toronto wouldn’t be better than third in any other division division sucks

it’s the NFC east of hockey

Here’s the thing I wasn’t arguing with you about the fact Tampa is a cup contender, everyone knows they are, I was saying that Kucherov wasn’t the best winger, lmao

Central only has Tbay, Dal and Canes all the other teams are playoff pretenders, the Canadian teams only have one pretender, the Sens, all other 6 Canadian teams are legit playoff contenders.

Who is better?

No on stone

I already said Stone is an all around better player, and if you consider Draisital a winger that him. Also Panarin is probably better