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Originally Posted by Fire of the Phoenix
It's possible but this is hardly last year's team. The way things currently look, .500 over the last 74 games is a lot more likely than 19 games over .500
Last year's team played well during the 8 game skid. This year's team has looked mostly awful going 2-6.
It hasn't been bad luck that's held them back either, they've more than deserved each loss. During that 8 game skid, they deserved to win at least 4 of those games IMO. The trend for each team is is opposite directions.
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Did they? That's not what I recollect. Even so, I'd say they deserved to win last night, so that makes at least 3 of the games this year they deserved to win (obviously the two wins make up the other two). Puts them pretty much at the same point during that skid last year, and it took a miraculous comeback against L.A. to get confidence back in the team.
During that skid they looked pretty much like they do to start this year. Disorganized, poor compete levels, low offensive output, shoddy goaltending, low confidence. I remember people saying then how this was what the team really was, and then they went on to a pretty high winning percentage and a playoff spot.
Since they proved me wrong several times last year, I will never write off this group of players.