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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Yep, on one hand the Jets improved, travel will be more fair with their new opponents, hopefully they remain healthy and they have a bit better odds of making the playoffs in a 7 team division, 14 team conference but they are coming from the worst division in the NHL. Chicago's pretty much a lock for 1 of the spots, and I would give St. Louis and Minnesota better odds in claiming the other divisional spots over the Jets. Putting them into that wildcard hunt with 3 last place teams in Nashville, Dallas, and Colorado and whatever Pacific teams but I don't know about giving them the inside track without Pavelec having a big year.
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Minnesota had 55 pts playing in a division with Calgary, Edmonton and Colorado...
Winnipeg 51 pts playing against Carolina, Tampa and Florida....
The top teams Washington and Vancouver were about even.
Work in the travel and Winnipeg likely had a better season than Minnesota last year.
Minnesota lose Clutterbuck and Setegouchi and Bouchard, Cullen and add Cooke , nino N. Ballard and Blum
Minny had very few injuries last season ...
There is significant parity among the teams that spend to the cap.