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Originally Posted by Sofa GM
Based on what we have done, and what others in the Pacific have done, we are not finishing ahead of Edmonton or Vancouver
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Edmonton is pretty much the exact same team. What they did do is add an aging expensive blueliner that can't play any more. They traded away one of their better defensemen in Bear (as sad as that is) for some depth on the bottom lines, when they needed better defense. Then they added a slow as sin blueliner that will look right at home in those garish orange uniforms, because the guy is a traffic cone. Still no depth, still no defense, and still crappy goaltending. Edmonton is the same as they were last season.
Not sure Vancouver really improved either. Any team that adds OEL is in for a looooooong season. I just don't see the sum of the parts that Vancouver added making them much better than they were last season, when the Flames, having a terrible year, made the Canucks their bitch. If there is one team we can blame our draft position on, it's the Vancouver Canucks. Don't expect them to be any better this season as well. For every good move they made, they made a bad to balance it out. And then you still have OEL. The give that keeps giving (it away).