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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Fair enough, I think that roster could be better, it could be worse or it could be the same. If all the players that had career years fall off (Zadorov, Backlund, Coleman, Dube) and the players who had off years don’t significantly improve they could be worse. If those players have good-great years again and the players who had terrible years have good years they could be better and if some combination of players having good years and players having bad years happens they could have a similar result.
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Backlund - everyone keeps predicting a fall off for him every year. One day it will happen. But it hasn’t yet. I don’t see why Dube or Zadorov will decline. And Coleman didn’t have a career year. His last years in NJ and TB were much better. But he’s not a real up and down guy to begin with.
The guys that had good years last year had marginally better years than before. The guys who had bad years (Markstrom/Huberdeau especially) were much worse than their averages. So all things being equal, I think they play better.