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Originally Posted by trackercowe
I see where you're going, but I would put a few more teams ahead of Tampa right now. Pittsburgh and San Jose are still better teams todat, at least until Tampa can win a playoff round. Then I would also put Minnesota and Dallas ahead of them, especially with the moves those teams made in the off-season. Tampa is definitely a team on the rise, but I don't think they'd be nearly as good playing the California teams multiple teams every year.
For me they would be right around Colorado, which I think is a pretty fair assessment right now on where both teams are at.
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I agree with the Colorado comparison, very similar teams with both teams biggest weakenss being their questionable back end. Tampa's D was embrassed in the Montreal series last year and they haven't done much to improve their D core. Until that changes I don't thnk they're is any way you can call them elite, on the rise sure, but elite no way. At least not yet.