[Cali Panthers Fan]

Love the video AC. A few thoughts watching after watching all that again.

1) Hiller was huge at times last year. Lots of big moments in those early comeback wins and in the playoffs early on. Doesn't even show the Chicago game where he stole points from them. He's inconsistent, for sure, but when he's on he's such an excellent goalie. Hope he finds more consistency this year.

2) There's a lot of luck in these comebacks. Sure, effort and determination can create lucky bounces, but there sure were a LOT of lucky goals, especially in the first half of the season. When people tout PDO as a measure of luck, they don't even need to do that, just look at some of those highlights (Brodie's winner against Boston comes to mind).

3) Bouma is clutch. He had some great goals at key moments in those comebacks, and he actually has a pretty good shot now. Anyone who believes that last year was a fluke needs to watch how he plays. He'll definitely get around 15 goals again this year.

It just seems to me that those early comebacks were a team still figuring out how to win. It happened less as the season went on as more and more wins came from doing it the right way, but they still knew how to comeback when they needed to. That experience will go a long way to making them a difficult team to play against.