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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I think Chicago is much improved, especially considering their injuries last year. Should be another fun game to watch.
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Disagree. Adding old bums like Smith, Bertuzzi, Maroon, and Brodie, set back a rebuild, IMO. Having 37 yo plugger, Foligno, on PP1 also doesn't inspire confidence.
I like adding a decent defensive forward, like Teravainen, who we lost, initially, due to bad cap management. (Just as seeing Panarin get 1.4PPG kills me, lost to us, because we overpaid for extensions in the 2010s.)
I still want to see Murphy shipped off, as I see him as little more than a pylon, and would just as soon see youngsters, like Phillips or Korchinski get the playing time.
As far as the game, the 'Hawks are terrible if you dump the puck behind the defense, and retrieve. We give up a ton of high danger chances, and depend on Mrazek to bail the defense out.
Offensively, we are dangerous off the rush, not so much if we have to grind and cycle.
I will be lurking today and will see you all in the GT.