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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I think Huberdeau improves, Kadri slows a bit, and Coleman is about the same as this year. I think the drop off in those guys is made up by an uptick from the under 25 guys.
This isn’t a fluke season. It’s not like a lot of luck is going this team’s way. Their expected goals are pretty closely in line with their actual goals. This is a season where, on average, everyone is playing to the level you expect them to play. For every guy that might be a bit better, you’ve got a guy that’s a bit worse.
The things I see as most unsustainable are the guys underperforming against potential or still growing. Wolf, for example, has more to give than .906 and 2.55, and I think he’ll prove that over the next calendar year.
I get the fact that we don’t have an elite forward coming down the pipe. But it’s not like there’s an elite forward that they’d be replacing. I don’t see them being a whole lot better next year, but I would need more convincing than “they won’t get better” to convince me they’ll get a whole lot worse.
You think they’re going to tie for the second longest playoff drought in NHL history?
That’s a monumental failure.
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That is the issue, we have no elite talent coming in so how is this team going to stay the same or get any better?
Kadri and Backlund are going to fall off a cliff and they are our only 2 natural centers.
The team is bottom of the league in goals for, PK, faceoffs, HDCF and a negative goal difference and somehow in a playoff spot. If this isn't a fluke, I don't know what is.
We just don't have enough game breaking young talent coming into make a difference, we are likely to be much worse next season. We actually are bad this year, the record just doesn't indicate it thanks to Wolf.