Definitely better than:

1 Anaheim Ducks
2 Chicago Blackhawks
3 Columbus Blue Jackets
4 San Jose Sharks
5 Montreal Canadiens
6 Arizona Coyotes
7 Philadelphia Flyers
8 Detroit Red Wings

Likely better than

9 St. Louis Blues
10 Washington Capitals
11 Seattle Kraken

Probably better than

12 Nashville Predators
13 Ottawa Senators

On par with

13 Buffalo Sabres
14 Florida Panthers
15 New York Islanders
16 Calgary Flames
17 Winnipeg Jets

Are we still easily a bottom 10 team with no chance at the playoffs 🤔

Wild how far they've come with no upgrades. Genuinely wonder what the key to their success was. You also said there were a fringe wildcard team, so we're both wrong.

Yeah I definitely didn’t expect us to be this good. But we did significantly upgrad our defense (adding Hronek, Cole, Soucy, Zadorov and buying out OEL) and improved our depth players (Blueger, Suter, and Lafferty, while Joshua and Hoglander also improved a ton this season). Boeser bouncing back and having a career year has been huge as well

Don't see Roy being put on a carousel. He should spend the entire year in Laval. Pearson will be a 4th liner for us. Let him play Top line PK. Also brings good leadership and SC pedigree. Armia should spend the entire season in the pressbox.