[bigrangy]

^those are all very reasonable guesses for what each players production will be this year. Obviously, the players sharing 4th line minutes wont put up 30 points, but anyone who plays with backlund is almost a lock for 25 points. Monahan can hopefully step up with more PP production. 52 should be very doable for Brouwer with JG feeding him as well. All 3 d-men should flirt with 50 points, assuming GG lets them play. I'm expecting a big season out of Bennett, and Frolik is as much of a lock for 40 points as you can get.

Calgary has a solid top 6 forwards who can be counted on for 40 points each, the depth is where the question marks show up. Who plays with Backlund, who needs to drag around Bollig, who's only going to play 8 minutes a game etc. Same story on the defense. These questions might have the right answers with new players like Shunk, Tkachuk, healthy Bouma, Chiasson etc, but for now they're still questions. Thankfully, the goaltending shouldn't be a disaster, because that can sink a team before the end of October.