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by OctoMod
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These schedules are so wack! We last played on the 27th and the final games before the ASG are today feb 1st!
I’m ok with us getting rest but I have a feeling we will be playing a bunch of back to back and busy weeks down the stretch because of it
Vrana, Soderblom, and Ed all really finding their stride in GR is the best news.
It’s easy to forget how different the team has looked this year compared to what was expected.
Bert’s glass hands in addition to not having vrana took away 50+ goals.
That’s the way she goes, but that’s an important thing to keep in mind while thinking about how the season has gone.
If yzerman knew all this would happen, Im not sure he would have made the moves he made (chiarot, kubalik, Copp), and just let the team be going into the Bedard sweepstakes, while giving guys like simon and soda big club experience.
According to Tankathon we have the second hardest schedule the rest of the way – moving on up the lottery ?
Just for the sake of speculation cause it feels like the off-season, do you think we would be a playoff team if we had Vrana and Bertuzzi healthy for the whole season? Right now we have a -15 goal differential. With them healthy, no way we have a negative diff.
Is it prospect time? Wings future starts after the trade deadline?
I will laugh so hard if the Leafs go out and get Meier and then still get knocked 1st round.
When people are comparing progress between this and last year, thinking we would have been bubble team for wild card spot with healthy roster, you have to take our division into account. Like many here have said, we could have had Horvat as our second C and we are still not competitive against Tampa, Toronto and Boston. We need to stay the course with the rebuild and keep collecting futures until we get to a Devils/Sabres progress level where we have at least 4 or 5 of our players/prospects that are showing star/superstar potential and we can label them as our core. We are still trying to find gems and our core at this point is undetermined.
We have no center depth, Larkin may be traded, 4 NHL dmen and goaltending pipeline is dry.
I can’t wait for Vrana to be back. He’s one of the most enjoyable players in this league to watch. You just never know when he’s going to turn on the jets and score a goal that only the elite-of-elite can score.