So hard for me to predict. I'm a HUGE believer in Darryl Sutter, and I'm an almost equally HUGE disbeliever in this core. They've folded like a cheap tent multiple times in the past as soon as something started to go wrong... but Darryl is a game changer (pun sort of intended).
Might be rose coloured glasses at work, but I think I side with Darryl on this one. The Iginla led core didn't look like it was going anywhere until Darryl stepped behind the bench, and just as surely it slipped back once he left. My best guess today is that this will be the same.
As others have mentioned, Darryl gets more than the sum of the parts out of his teams pretty much every time.
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