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Originally Posted by Red
You are comparing a team that was trading their best players for draft picks to a team that traded their 3 top draft picks for established players.
Hardly seems fair.
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You realize the time span here is a couple of years right? I am not sure what team that drafted 4th and 6th that turned into this one that you watched, but I had no aspirations of them overnight becoming a contender because of the harmonic trade. They constantly outplay teams night in and night out, but have a roster who is nearing historic levels of bad when it comes to finishing. On the right wing you have Michael ferland, Michael folik, Garnett Hathaway and troy brouwer every single night. A coach isn't suddenly going to turn a bunch of guys who should barely be in the league minus natural 3rd liner frolik into snipers. He gives them a system where they can generate the largest number of scoring chances you can - which they do.
The actual skill players are almost all having career years carrying the burden that has been the bottom six all year. Had Sam Bennett been a 25+ goal scorer right out of the gate I would be in the same boat as You, but I don't look at this roster and think they're being outcoached on a nightly basis. I see a bunch of dudes who can't hit the net to save their careers make ahl callups look like prime hasek night in and night out