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Originally Posted by JTech780
I think we need to figure out why an entire team pulled a no show for 5 playoff games. That is more concerning than any kind of roster construction. If it was a couple of players who didn't bring their intensity level up, then I would look at roster construction, but since it was the whole team, there is something bigger at play.
Was it that they don't have the experience required, is that Peters was going I to his first playoffs as a head coach or was it that they clinched too early and didn't have to play any meaningful games for a month while Colorado had to play at a playoff level for month just to get into the playoffs.
When I look back Colorado was playing at playoff level intensity and we were still playing regular season hockey.
I think you make some tweaks to the team, but I would give this core and coaching staff another year to figure it out before I make sweeping changes.
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It wasn't the whole team though. Up front it was Lindholm, flashes of Johnny, Backlund, flashes of Frolik, Bennett and the fourth line, all who played hard enough to win.
The defense was mostly young and suffering from a lack of backchecking from any of the forward core not mentioned above.
Smith played great.
Any of the forward core not named above should be considered expendable, and there are some really good pieces there, just perhaps not for this team. I would make an allowance for Tkachuk, who looked like the definition of a player in his first playoff game. You can grow out of that.