Whenever you accumulate a group of players for a team that are young and new, and comprise most of that team, you really can't predict exactly how it will go. Many will assume, but that's all they can do. The Blue Jackets were supposed to do next to nothing, and have zero impact in the playoff race. The year before that the Senators were predicted to be the same, and just in the Beginning phase of a full on rebuild. Both cases the teams were counted out entirely. Here it's the same, but nothing is "impossible".
All you need is for a team of young, energetic guys to gel together unexpectedly, and most importantly your starting goaltender to get into a grove and string some wins. We have zero, absolutely zero idea what our two new guys are about. Berra a little, and he looked great, but the situations can't be compared. But it can happen whether its a team of Sedins, Crosbys and Ovechkins or a group of nobodies from nowhereville. It's happened before and will happen again.
If anything significant does happen with the team this year though, it'll be due to a strong team game. They have to win by committee, cause it's undeniable that we have a lack of true star power.
And I won't be surprised to see our dominance vs the Oil continue. If the latter portion of last year is any indication (the kids smoked em).
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