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Originally Posted by TheSquatch

I thought the team was going to be good at the start of last season. I was wrong. Covid bubble, coaching, whatever, it all went poorly.

But I saw no real reason to think that the team would be a ton better this year. Sutter's record last season was identical to Ward's, no miracle there. I saw Monahan as just... needing replacement, and had no hope for that. And Gaudreau had a poor year, and we lost Gio, so I mean... yikes.

Suddenly Sutter is a genius, Lindholm is a 1C making Monahan blessedly irrelevant, and the D core has been totally re-shaped by Kylington coming through and Gudbrandson actually not being a donkey.

And they're winning and winning and winning.. so I mean, jeez, I'll eat it, my expectations were for another middling year.

Gaudreau had a poor year? He was nearly ppg