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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Very unlikely that Anaheim and LA maintain these paces.
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Anaheim is a talented young team with an elite goalie. Their success might be unsustainable but we're a couple weeks away from American Thanksgiving and it's rare that teams who are in a spot at that point don't manage to stumble in.
LA is winning games the exact same way Calgary is winning games. They have a shutdown centre (Danault/Backlund) taking on tough matchups, a shutdown centre (Kopitar/Lindholm) in an offensive role, and then some young players sprinked throughout taking advantage of offensive zone opportunities and puck possession. They don't even have Quentin Byfield back yet, which will really round out their forward group. If you expect LA to fall off, then you probably expect Calgary to fall off too.