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Originally Posted by fleury
Fair question. I thought they’d be better but last couple years’ playoff teams were terrible. Outskated, outhustled, couldn’t score. And nothing changed with the core year to year. So it was predictable to some degree. To the bad and inconsistent degree they played was not really but the signs were there from previous playoff performances with this core.
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New coach, new goaltender, mostly new defensive corps, new support pieces.
The team was substantially different that the last time they were in the playoffs. How would anyone predict they'd play the same?