I don’t know. There are certainly questions about the team. Look at the past 5 years
- They blew it up and the young core started to take over. They rallied under Hartley and overachieved.
- They got off to a brutal start that they never dug out of, and quit on Hartley in his last year
- They made the playoffs and choked for Gulutzan.
- They sucked and then quit on Gulutzan (also around ASG time and kind of when the team cut ties with Jagr)
- They choked with Peters
I still can’t help but think a lot of the blame on this exit lies on coaching. Peters had the ‘rebuild complete’ roster, the best team on paper in many, many years. They rolled through the league Nov through January.
We saw a mediocre team post all star break, when games get more competitive. They got the weak division but SJ put up one stinker of a run down the stretch.
Team pace was brutal against Colorado. Failure to adapt was frankly baffling, and you don’t get repeatedly outshot 50-20 when you have a solid game plan.
No. The post all-star team wouldn’t beat any other team in the playoffs
It sucks to have to wait a year to see if they can figure out how to fix what stinks
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