If this is their plan there will be rule changes coming quick.

They still finish 2nd in the division and playoffs bracket.loose in 6 to Tampa Bay eventual B2B champs

Interesting take here...what rules would be broken? The current rules allow for this assuming no other team placed a claim on the player. The same rule states that if the player goes back on waivers, the original team (EDM here) can claim him back an put him immediately in the AHL or Taxi.

Darn, too bad we will ‘loose’ to Tampa Bay.

If you have teams claiming players just to trade them then that goes against what the system was designed for.

Well, to be honest, the Canes claimed him as insurance for a 3rd goalie in the event Nedeljkovic didn’t clear.

I don’t see TBL going back to back without Kucherov.

Would you have seen them winning it without Stamkos in the beginning of last year?

Kucherov > stamkos.

Besides it’s too hard to go back to back when you’re missing your 3rd best forward one year and your best player the next season.

Even if Kucherov is back for the playoffs 4 month recovery makes it 9 days before season end

Agreed but Kucherov comes back for the playoffs you really betting against them. I’m not in fact I have cash on them.

They could do it, but it’s extremely difficult going back to back. I would know, I’m a pens fan. There’s a reason they are the only team to do it in the salary cap era

And what put the Penguins over the top in that second year the HBK well it’s going to be the Coleman Gourde Goodrow line that’s the same thing for this lightning team

I think you mean “HBK” line and that was really only a thing in 2016. It didn’t work as well in 2017 and as a result they didn’t play together. It is still incredibly difficult to go back to back. Not saying they won’t, but many good teams have failed in that quest.

Yeah I talk into the phone and I fixed it I have really big hands in a really small phone so when I talk into it it doesn’t always say what I say

Carolina have never lost in the 2nd round. If they get past round 1, you're going to be bitterly disappointed my friend. They either go deep or bottom out.

Do you have some short term memory problem I don’t know about? Didn’t they just get bounced in their 2nd playoff round by Boston in 2020? Hearing cypress hill in the background

Nope. 1st round of the playoffs. Play-ins aren't playoffs sherlock

Hey Sherlock they counted as playoff stats and records there playoff played under playoff rules

Played under playoff rules

Nope, they counted as POSTSEASON. Not playoffs. There is a difference