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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Well looking at it fairly:
Goaltending: Advantage Islanders - I'd say that Sorokin and Wolf is pretty equal, but Varlamov is way better than our back ups.
Defense: Advantage Islanders: Romanov, Pulock, Pelech, Schaefer, Mayfield, DeAngelo, and Boqvist is better than our defense with Pulock and Pelech being a bonafide top pair.
Forwards: Probably advantage to the Flames overall, but it's close and neither team has a great forward group. If Barzal and Horvat have bounceback seasons then the Islanders are probably better.
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The original quote was the Islander are "much better".
The Flames had 96 points last year, the Islanders had 82.
Even if we try to look at things on paper, the fact that the Flames were 14 points better last year, largely with the same squads, makes it hard to defend a statement that NYI is "much better".