My thoughts the morning after...
We have a solid D-core. Really like it moving forward and would love to see the young guys slowly take the reigns from Gio.
We have depth up front, and four "pretty good" lines/ Unfortunately, we have no game breakers. JG and Monny are complete passengers 5v5 (well documented). Looking at every other Canadian team, outside of maybe MTL and Ottawa, they all have at least one or two. You need a game breaker in this league, and we just don't have it. Love Chucky and Lindy, as they're both great players, but they too are not game breakers.
And I don't like the "cue the overreactions" comments. It's not an overreaction; we have a huge sample size for our core. We are headed for another mediocre season, and I think we'll be in tough to make playoffs in this division. I could see us finishing 5th.
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