There was another article taking a look at where it went wrong for West and North teams who didn’t make the playoffs
https://eprinkside.com/2021/05/14/no...h-investigates
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What Happened? With the exception of Gaudreau, the stars weren’t stars. Mark Giordano struggled significantly this season, and his pairing with Rasmus Andersson went from one of the league’s best to a total anchor that was far worse than any other on the team. Sean Monahan continued to underperform his contract and seemingly eternally assured spot with Gaudreau, and didn’t even score goals - the one thing he’s supposed to be able to do. Matthew Tkachuk had a down year by his standards. Jacob Markström, who was acquired to finally be the answer in net after years of instability, was actually well below-average. Johnny Hockey was great, Elias Lindholm is still an automatic goal machine, and the depth was mostly fine, but this team ended up where it belonged.
Bright Spots? Holy moly Christopher Tanev. Talk about proving people wrong.
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