Fact is this team actually has a very good team on paper. In theory, they should be far, far away from a last place team. And that's what seems appalling about those predictions.
Just none of our top players decided to come prepared into this 'unexpected' season, and have stunk it up early (with the odd exception of Jbo). However, that does not necessarily guarantee that that will be the case over the next 40+ games.
Basically, if Cammy and Iginla were putting up points at their normal pace and Kiprusoff was putting up his usual numbers, we wouldn't be in this boat at all.
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