Team gets a little bit better. Just not enough to be more then a bubble team, because rest of the West is improving faster. There was no Vegas last year. Winnipeg was not as good. Avs were atrocious. If you are not moving forward, you will be dead end really soon. It's what happened to Oilers: they put all of their post season effort into locking McDavid and Draisaitl, but they forgot to solidify the depth around them. Their team doesn't look weaker, but the competition got better.
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