The way I look at it is no one on this team had a really good season last year (except Kipper). That was still good enough for 9th in the West. We've since added Wideman, Hudler and Baerstchi, and the only player we've lost of any note is Jokinen. Granted this could be the year age finally catches up with Iggy and Kipper, we have tons of question marks at center, and we have a whole new coaching system to get up to speed on in a shortened schedule, but I still think too many things would have to go wrong for us to drop all the way to 14/15 in the division. Meanwhile only a few things have to go right for us to squeak into the playoffs.
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