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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
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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16 OTLs, posts, calls, confidence etc are symptoms of the personel, not random luck.
Those things have happened because the players aren't good enough.
I agree they are better than bad, and goaltending is the biggest issue but it's not a team that's anywhere near being a contender.
Management now needs to look at massive contracts to players who aren't going to make them a contender and figure out what to do.
Not a good spot to be in. Maybe not a disaster, but if the goal is to compete for a championship, it's close.