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Originally Posted by Locke
We're not talking about 'Upper Echelon' or 'Top 5 Teams in the NHL' but they should be comfortably in a playoff spot. One of the top 16 teams in the NHL.
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The only teams comfortably in a playoff spot just over the mid-way point of a season ARE upper echelon teams.
This just underscores where there is an apparent disconnect.
Either you believe the team is elite, and therefore expected them to be sittin' pretty right now, or you don't - in which case they are largely meeting expectations.
Right now they are one of the top 16 teams in the NHL.
Indeed they probably expect to make the playoffs, but I also think they probably knew it would be a fight. Because it is a fight for most.