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Originally Posted by Mathgod
Imagine for a minute...
- Huby and Kadri have bounce back years under coaching that allows them to play to their strengths.
- Kylly returns and bolsters the team's depth on the blue line.
- Wolf either pushes Marky to play better or replaces him as the starter at some point.
- Mang comes back fully healthy and plays closer to the way he did in his 35 goal campaign.
- Young talent from the Wranglers are given more of a chance to push for roster spots than they had under Sutter.
- Overall lack of negative vibe between players and coach, resulting in more consistent play than we saw from the team last year.
- Actually practicing the power play.
- Actually practicing 3 on 3 and the shootout.
Tons of reasons to think the upcoming season will be much better than last. This is a talented roster that should not only have made the playoffs but been a hard out once they got there. Granted, any major personnel changes to the roster would throw a wrench into the outlook for the upcoming season.
Connie & Co have complicated decisions ahead. This offseason will not be an easy one to navigate.
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That is a lot of things you are hoping all go right for us to be an ok-ish team at best? You say this is a talented team that should be a hard out but there is no reason to think that at all. This is a mediocre team that would be an easy out in the play-offs. They don't have game changers, they aren't a team that is hard to play against or can lock down other teams, they have a mediocre defense core with zero #1 guys or guys who can make a difference.
That is the issue that I see whenever people talk about all the positives that could happen even if you take the most optimistic of views the likely outcome is still so underwhelming. When you need that level of luck to go right to just get to maybe the 2nd round, to me, it is clear that continuing to try and win is not the way to go.