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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
I get your point but you have to be sensible about it as well. Unless there is a meaningful upgrade made before the season, you can't go into the year with a top 6 of Tkachuk, Lindholm, Toffoli, Mangiapane, Backlund and Dube and expect to be able to do serious damage against any of the top 4-5 teams in the conference. Infact, the majority of the season would be a complete slog with some of the bad teams last season obviously closing the gap on the Flames, if not passing them entirely.
Toss in a pretty lackluster bottom 6 full of plugs outside of Coleman, and this team has 8-12 seed written all over it.
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I feel like a lot of people discredit the contributions of Darryl Sutter here. He is going to use the walking of Gadreau as ammo to turn this team into an even tighter checking and more relentless team.
I remember all the people saying they were going to be terrible last off season too and it looks like they are right back at it again this off season. Trust Sutter hockey!