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Originally Posted by Five-hole
For the people hand-wringing about being unexpectedly good next year -- good enough to finish outside of the bottom 10 and lose our pick -- compare this year's roster to last year. We finished in the bottom 10 last year, despite getting most of a season out of:
- Hanifin
- Lindholm
- Markstrom
- Zadorov
- Mangiapane
We have replaced those guys with ... Mantha and Bean.
This is a bottom 7- or 8- team, and very likely bottom 4. They'll try hard and be entertaining but you cannot be in the top 2/3rds of the NHL with this D and goaltending.
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We also had career years for Coleman, Sharangovich, Hanifin was on pace to tie his career best, Weegar had a career year.
I can't see Weegar and Coleman combing for 50 goals next season. The drop off may be covered by Kuzmenko, but we will see.