Quoting: HOCKEYBOY448
Personally don’t think this team is very good. They’re awful against good teams and really good against bad teams. As of now I think they’d get bounced in 4 games against anyone in a 1st round matchup. Might be a decent learning experience to get some playoff experience, but I really can’t see them making a trade to drastically improve their odds.
Eh, I mean with Shesterkin at full health, Lindgren in the lineup, and a solid RW to play with Strome and Panarin we'd be pretty good. Plus Lafreniere hasn't even broken out yet.
I mean if you watched the game against Florida, we were very competitive. If you think about it, if Shesterkin was at full strength I doubt he'd have let in that Verhaeghe goal, and if it was Lindgren playing with Fox, I think he'd have dealt with the Weegar goal too. That's not even talking about the amount of insane chances that Zibanejad had, or the amount of posts that were hit by the likes of Strome. I'm not trying to say we deserved to win that game, and I'm not meaning to excuse the Rangers, there's a lot that needs to be worked on, but we weren't exactly outplayed. Nor would I say we were outplayed by Vegas 2 weeks ago, or by the Preds before that. We got embarrassed by the Avs twice but we don't need to talk about that. All I'm saying is that was a home game against Florida, who were at (basically) full strength, with Bobrovsky playing very well, and it could've gone either way, I don't think it's fair to say this team "isn't very good", or that we'd get swept in the playoffs against any playoff team. I'm not saying we're cup contenders, but there's definitely something here.