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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Unless they go out and sign the top three UFAs available, Chicago will still be terrible. Washington are going to crash hard (they had only three players with more than 35 points this season, and one of them was 39 years old). The Tortorella factor will likely wear off on the Flyers (look at their roster and tell me it’s better than the Flames’) and they’re in cap hell. The Kraken have lost their cap/depth advantage and they don’t have much talent in the pipeline. Unless Fantilli has an amazing sophomore season, the Blue Jackets will still be bad. Utah aren’t guaranteed to improve by leaps and bounds. Lots of teams could be looking at a bottom-5 finish next season.
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Flames are right in there with all those teams. If they trade Markstrom, they will have a bottom 5ish dcore, bottom tenish forward core, and a bottom 5 goalie tandem.