Cautiously optimistic. IMO the biggest question marks coming into the year were:
1. Finding an effective 2nd D pair
2. Generating offence from the middle 6 forwards
I was reasonably confident Markstrom would bounce back under Sutter, team D would be solid, and the top line would score some goals. But so far we're 2/2 on the things I was worried about. As long as Kylington keeps it up over a larger sample of games I'm feeling good about our D, and Backlund-Coleman looks like instant chemistry on the "3rd" line. I'm lukewarm about the other 2 lines though - unless Mangiapane scores 50 we'll need more out of Monahan and Dube. Definitely more good than bad though
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