That said:
I can't remember another year recently when the west has loaded up for the playoffs like this.
Most of the teams are going to be disappointed. A part of me is definitely glad we didn't join in on the frenzy.
Oh, and what Bingo and others have said. We have a lot of question marks still with experience and goaltending, going all in would have been a huge risk, plus we're still one of the best teams in the west.
Yes, I'm definitely sweating a bit more about facing Nashville and Vegas, but it was always going to be unlikely that the rest of the conference is just going to let us walk over them.
Look at it this way: we're the team others in the west are looking up at and thinking "we need to get better to beat them".
It's not such a bad place to be.
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