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Originally Posted by Bingo
So many unlikely things happening ...
Calgary goes 8-2-0
Vancouver starts to slide
Jets implode with Kane
Kings get in a huge funk
Unreal.
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I wouldn't call any of those things particularly unlikely.
Lots of teams go 8-2-0 at some point in the season. Even bad teams can have hot streaks. (It certainly isn't any less likely than going 0-7-1.)
We've been expecting Vancouver to slide as the Sedins and other key players get older, with not much in the pipeline to replace them.
Kane has always been a bit of a loose cannon, and anyway he hasn't been such a big contributor in Winnipeg that his absence is likely to make the whole team implode. It's been an entertaining freak show, but the Jets may actually be a better team now that Kane is sidelined for surgery.
The Kings have always been a team that got into the playoffs by the skin of their teeth and then made magic happen. They're built for the postseason. Sooner or later they were bound to have an off year, and they didn't have much margin for error when that happened.
However, I will certainly enjoy watching all these things as they happen.