On paper and in theory this team was actually built perfectly to grind out a couple long series playing sandpaper 5 on 5 hockey.
You cant really account for chemistry beforehand though. Hard to predict. But even then if they got .910 goaltending as one would expect this team would probably go pretty far.
The fact that they've dealt with bottom 5-10 goaltending and are still hanging around in the dying days actually speaks to how well the team was constructed to battle in the western conference, despite everything going against them - luck, posts, calls, confidence, locker room shenanigans, etc...
I wouldn't be so quick to undersell every piece here and call it a disaster.
Half of those 16 OTLs go the other way and were having very different conversations today.
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