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Originally Posted by moon
They are 2 points back of TC with Bartschi having missed more than 25% of their games. TC has been healthy all year with all their big guns and they still can't pull away from Portland. If he is back there they are likely the favorites over very other team. Sure their GA isn't great but it isn't nearly as bad as suggested.
I don;t think that they will cake walk to the Memorial Cup but they are at worst a top 5 favorite and likely top 2 with Saint John if Portland has all its guys.
Either way keeping him up here for the final 10 games of the season seems pretty silly when looking at the benefit he has from going back both as a player and person.
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I pretty much agree. We already know TriCity and Portland won't be playing each other until the Conference Finals if they do play each other and by that time regular season record's don't mean much. I'd probably take Tri City in a 1st round series, but by the time the conference finals role around, additional factors like fatigue set in and make a big difference.