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Originally Posted by dammage79
The optics are more positive, they won a round. And honestly if they make it out of this round and the conference finals, I still think substantial moves will be made in the offseason.
For me, winning the play in against WPG and then sputtering out in round 1 is quite literally the worst case scenario I was hoping against. Yet here we are...
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I agree with this. The optics are way better if we make it to round 2, but the main and underlying problem remains: as long as Gaudreau and Monahan, ie. our top players, don't pick it up significantly, this core is not a Stanley Cup contender. A hot goalie, good depth and special teams might win us a round but probably won't win us 4 if our top players dont start playing like top players.