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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
We'll see if they can score. You don't win games on paper, you win them on the ice. We'll see if this depth down the middle pays off or if this team struggles to find the net. I think they will be better defensively, but see a drop in scoring. That one winger they are missing is a big piece IMO. Like I said, they aren't better, they are different. I could see a repeat top 10 finish from this lineup, just doing it differently. I don't see these changes giving them the horses to pass any of the teams who finished in front of them.
I don't know. I like Kadri as a playoff performer. I think he's going to help out dramatically. Huberdeau and Weegar both got brickbats in Florida for their post-season performances, so that's an unknown. It will depend on deployment and chemistry, which is Sutter's strength. I like the team on paper. Fill that one gap and I see a contender in the post-season.
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On paper is obviously the ony way we can discuss it right now. If you give me two teams that have equally talented players, but one team's forward talent is all on the wings and the other is strong down the middle, I take the latter every time. That's not even counting adding a top pairing D.