Unless the defensemen are much, much worse than I think they are (and have been in the recent past), this team should be a contender. Maybe I am just plain blind or extremely biased; Giordano is a 50-60 point player who is great in his own end. Hamilton should be a 50-60 point offensive specialist. Brodie should be a 40+ point 2-way guy. Hamonic and Stone should be solid defensemen with ability to contribute offensively. The forwards have been mentioned above. Aside from a horrible 4th line (which should be easily fixable), this team is so much less than it can be, and I think that's coaching - it seems like he purposely took a great D group and made it contribute as little as possible. Took away their ability to join the rush. F'ed up Brodie, misuses them on the PP,... Again, maybe I have blinders on, but with a good coach, it seems to me this team should be playing NSH in the WCF...
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