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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I believe most of the media had Vegas, Edmonton and Vancouver as the 3 teams with a few saying the Flames had a shot for top 3 but I don’t think many had them winning the division. The flames having everything go right leads to a division title while Seattle doing well is more like the 2015 Flames where just making it is what mattered.
Calgary was the surprise team last year. Losing number 1 Dman and replacing him with some third pair muscle while also adding some cheap and expensive gritty bottom 6 forwards turned out to be great.
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That's not accurate. The preseason picking was VGS 1st, EDM and CGY as a pickem 2-3, with VAN and LAK as teams that might surprise. Very few actually slotted the Nucks into the top 3
Conversely, SEA was on almost everyone's Bedard list thsi year