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					Originally Posted by  Paulie Walnuts
					 
				 
				They have good seasons depends on if you value the regular season or not. Over 82 games if you put up the wins they do I would say yes they are contenders.  
 
The playoffs can be a crapshoot sometimes the best team doesn't always win due to luck and streaks.  
 
I still think your aim should be to finish as high as you can and not rely on just getting in because those Cinderella stories are rare. 
			
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Fair.  But some posters clearly don't think the regular season even matters if you don't make a bang in the POs, as far as if you are a contender or not, and that a rebuild is necessary if you are not.  So at the end of the day it's just a word people use that has a lot of fuzz around it for me.