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Originally Posted by Hackey
Your kind of assuming everything goes right which is never does. You point out all these things that could go right but fail to mention the things that could wrong. It will likely be a combination of both. If a couple more go right we could be slightly better. If a couple more go wrong we could be slightly worse. I don't think we should expect a significant change in either direction. In my opinion a lot went right last year and we were still 27th. Bottom 5 is likely where the team will be.
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A lot went right as the young guys got a lot of opportunity and ice time.
The problem with that is winning.
Chicago's top 10 highest paid players missed a total of 64 games
Toews, Jonathan » 6
Kane, Patrick » 13
Sharp, Patrick » 4
Seabrook, Brent » 0
Keith, Duncan » 3
Hossa, Marian » 10
Bickell, Bryan » 23
Hjalmarsson, N. » 1
Oduya, Johnny » 5
Leddy, Nick » 0
The Flames highest paid 10 players missed a total of 205 games
Cammalleri, Mike 19
Wideman, Dennis »36
Giordano, Mark » 18
Hudler, Jiri » 8
Jones, David » 34
Stajan, Matt » 19
Smid, Ladislav » 9
Ramo, Karri » 15
Glencross, Curtis » 44
Brodie, T.J. » 1
Chicago had 107 pts -- an 18 pt clearance on the 9th place team.
Would the impact of losing 141 more man-games out of their core been worth 9 wins.... The Flames had Wideman play 22 games with a broken hand as well ie do the Hawks make the playoffs with Seabrook and Kieth missing the same amount of games as Wideman and Gio?
Should we count on the Hawks having the same injury problem this year as the Flames did? The top Hawks have played a lot more hockey over the Last 2 years than the top Flames..... Higher probability of injury?
It seems that the same injury risk factor exists for all teams at the start of the season.
Teams with the high injury rate and man games missed of their top players are more likely to miss the playoffs.