There's no doubt that almost everything that could go wrong went wrong to start the season and I'm sure that eventually Monahan, Brodie, Gio, Elliott, etc will get back to their career norms. However I'm not sure they can afford to wait until the calendar turns to 2017 for these players to get their games back. It's not like the Sharks, Ducks, and Kings have played to their potential so I feel like they probably need to be ahead of those teams right now to be able to ride out the poor play of the top players in hopes they pick things up.
Also while it's easy to look at points and say they are right there but this team has played and lost more games than the other 29 teams so they are further behind the 8-ball than simply looking at points would indicate.
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