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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
It's possible for sure. If you set the over under on points for this team next year at 96 I'd take the under. Finishing in that 85 to 95 point range, seems more likely than in that 97 to 105 point range.
Conroy says he doesn't see them picking bottom 5, but TBH I think it's more that they are very unlikely to get a top 3 pick.
Finishing bottom 3 in the league is tough in the modern era, on average you need to finish about .425 or lower to finish bottom 3, which is sub 70 point season.
In order to finish bottom 3 you really need to intentionally be bad and really go scorched earth on a re-build.
But I do think that they could legitimately finish anywhere from 29th OV to 14th OV - that's just how much parity there is in the NHL, and I think with a rising cap we see even more teams in that range trying to add and take a step next year.
Look at Boston - on Feb 1st they were 16th in the NHL, they ended the season 28th OV.
Will be interesting to see what happens next year but I wouldn't write out a scenario where they do end up picking top 10 but not top 3.
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Boston signed Lindhom, Zadorov and Swayman to big long term deals to compete will be picking 7th. Same goes for Nashville big UFA moves picking 5th.
Things can swing easily.