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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
The Devils were one of the worst teams in the league last year and are pegged to be in lottery territory again this year.
I get the grass is always greener trend, but I'd pump the breaks on glowing about how a team like New Jersey is building until there are some tangible results.
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I mean look at a lot of teams in the league now. Brouwers and Stajans in the bottom six isn't the way to go anymore.
The Oilers and The Ducks (two teams that embarrassed us last season) had bottom sixers filled with players like:
Ducks: Wagner, Shaw, Kase and Ritchie at times
Oilers: Caggiula, Slepyshev, Pakarinen and now they've added Jujar Khaira
While ours is filled with Sam Bennett and then a combination of locker room allstars and outdated plugs like Tanner Glass.
The NHL is moving in a new direction and with defenses and systems being better than ever, you need four lines that can put the puck in the net on any given night. Mark Jankowski not being on this team is criminal and I feel like players such as Morgan Klimchuk and Emile Poirier could slide in other teams' bottom sixes and not look out of place, but on this team, unless you were a top 10 pick then you have virtually no chance of making the roster regardless of how you perform in camp.