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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Celebrini had 63 points as a 18 yo. You don’t think those guys will improve ?
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Their collection of forwards are quite good for sure.
Their team defence is still quite the shambles.
They finished in 32nd lace 9 points behind Chicago. Let that sink in a bit.
Chicago finished 7 points behind Nashville, who finished 8 points behind the Flyers and the Bruins.
So, SJ finished 24 points behind the 4th worse team.
They were a team -105 in goal differential, 35 behind the Hawks.
They currently have a huge hill to climb just to be terrible.
They'll need big improvements from the young forwards (some of which is likely guaranteed) to make up a lot of that difference, because guys like Leddy and Orlov will make some difference but they are bottom dmen at best.
Probably the biggest need they have is for Askarov to show he can be a Wolf type goalie.