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Look at the bright side.
Hey Oil country.
I know its not too #### hot right now. We are down 0-3 in a best of 7 and it ####ing sucks looking at potentially being swept. But you need to look at the good things that came from this season.
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* Darnell Nurse is a legit top pairing D-man.
* Jesse Puljujarvi is the winger McDavid needed.
* Larsson is back in form and looking to take a sweet heart deal for the team.
* A bloated contract is likely on the way out in the expansion draft.
* Dylan Holloway is a legit top prospect.
* Bouchard is a top 4 dman on this team looking at a log jam.
* Broberg is here next year with Bakersfield
* McLeod is a legit top 9 forward with top 6 potential
* Yamamoto will be out of his sophomore slump
* A lot of cap is being freed up and many of the stop gaps won't be back.
* Benson and Marody will likely be in the show.
* Kris Russel will be making 1.25M
* Barrie will be gone I will miss his offence but I believe Bouchard is the better player in offense and defensive responsibilities.
* Kahun and Yamamoto will be up for new contracts and they won't be getting massive raises.
* Nuge may likely take a sweetheart deal.
We are a **FEW** pieces from being a play off team that goes beyond the first round. I didn't feel this year was it (I did not expect us to be potentially swept)
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Again, no one had us making the play offs. We had too much cap tied up in pieces that can't play to their salary.
We did not make massive moves to bring in talent at trade deadline. We did not ship picks out for magic beans and we did not sign massive contracts and NMC's
Yet..
Ken found pieces that made us better for ####ing cheap. Smith at 1.5, Barrie, Kahun. Some did not pan out like Turris but he is on a 1.65 deal for two years. There is potential he can come back next season and be effective in a bottom 6 role if not its money off the books after a season.
Also shout out to PTO gem Devin Shore I love this guy.
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We need to only look at Winnipeg to see what is coming. They are a deep skilled team that built through the draft in Atlanta before coming north. They failed to make the play offs and kept building. They are now reaping the rewards of that.
They have a team that knows what it takes to win and what its like to fail.
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**Draisaitl and McDavid won't give up on this team they love this city, love the fans and they want to build something here.**
I don't know about you... but I got to feel excitement for the play offs for the first time in 4 years. And we will be back next year.
**We will finish 1st in the pacific.**
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Is any point on that list even remotely true?