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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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Byfuglien has been out for 9 consecutive games now. I'd say he is just important to the Jets as Gio is to the Flames. Plus Perrault has been out for a long time, he is one of their leading scorers, and didn't they have their top 4 defencemen out for a period of time. I'm pretty sure they have gone through a crapload of injuries.