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Originally Posted by Commandant
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Hahaha! What?!
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Originally Posted by Kenny MacMillan
"...much more damning, it shows that this team just does not have much depth on their roster. Giordano, Brodie and Hamilton are among the best top three defenders in the league. However, behind them, Smid, Engelland, Jokipakka and Wideman are among the worst group of bottom three defenders in the NHL."
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Come on. Most NHL teams struggle to ice "good" second and third defense pairings, and I seriously doubt that there are many teams whose collection of bottom three defensemen looks much better.
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Up front it’s a similar story. A team with Gaudreau, Monahan, Bennett, Frolik and Backlund has a tremendous foundation. However, when Colborne is your sixth best forward, you may just find yourself missing the playoffs by ten points like the Flames did this season.
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Joe Colborne outscored Mikael Granlund, Gustav Nyquist, Nino Niederreiter, Chris Kreider and Chris Kunitz in fewer games played last season. If he is the team's sixth best forward, then that should be good enough to at least make the playoffs. If they miss the post-season by 10 points it is likely because of their inability to keep goals against down, which has been a problem for the last two seasons.