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Originally Posted by dammage79
The pace some of these bottom seeding teams are playing at in the west right now is mind blowing.
I'm not even mad, I'm more impressed. I really don't think any of CGY, MIN, VAN, WPG, LA or even DAL are going to go away until the last day. Incredible.
Also, huge props to Ottawa in the East, that's some kind of run they're on too.
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So many of these teams were screwed over early-season. Only Winnipeg has no real circumstances to point to, other than taking a bajillion penalties that they've stopped taking.
- Us without Backlund and so we didn't have our top line together, so we had that 8 game L streak.
- Minnesota with their atrocious goaltending before Dubnyk showed up.
- LA with Voynov and then Mike Richards being out of shape
- Vancouver, man I don't know what to make of them. They've persevered through injuries all year.
But only we get screwed over end-season with Gio going down. We can still do this but I'm not going to say any of these teams are
truly better than us when healthy. But I will concede that all these teams are probably better than Anaheim, maybe even Nashville / Chicago-sans-Kane.
I can't see the East winner beating the West in the cup final.