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Originally Posted by Monahammer
Have you ever eaten carb free food? They make it with basically all the same ingredients, they sub in the carb stuff for texture-matching things that provide similar flavours, and yet you mix it all together and bake it and it tastes nothing like the original product.
That's the flames team you are describing. I think it is pretty foolish to think it was going to come out of the oven a contender right away when you swapped the main ingredients for facsimiles.
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Didn't the Panthers do the same thing. They made significant changes to their team - and it led to a championship.
You make changes you think are good for your team. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
Jonathan Huberdeau was coming off a season where he produced more assists than anyone else in the entire history of the NHL for a LWer.