With hockey being as random as it is, it's not surprising to see almost similar rosters have dramatically different results from one year to the next. Tampa Bay from no playoffs to being one of the Cup favorites, New Jersey from bottom of the league to playoff chaser, Colorado being a laughing stock to a darkhorse to make the playoffs and Edmonton being no good in the playoffs and being no good at the bottom of the league again.
Yet Calgary doesn't really show much in the way of breaking out into anything positive despite all the metrics that show otherwise. Are we to expect that with the likes of Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Hamilton and Smith ALREADY having career years that somehow this team will take that next major step into being at the top of their division?
The only consistency shown so far is that of mediocrity. Treliving's got his hands tied in terms of roster movement as this is the team he's gambled to put together. The only move left is the coach before all cards are on the table.
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