News Article: Are You Surprised By This?

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No Canadian bias involved. It's NHL Network. Otherwise Toronto would be there somewhere.




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PS Please Oct 4 come soon so we can talk about real hockey.
 
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I wish we could have cover photos, this would so be mine. This is going to be a fun year.

Do TO fans know yet? It could crash the board.
 

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No I'm not suprised, it's was a horrible list though. I could be wrong but all players on our team who made the list where ranked on the list behind where they ranked in points last season. I hate having to bring up Matthews but seriously... Scheifele, Wheeler and Laine don't crack Top 20 but he's number 8...
 

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Zero suprises in seeing this. Last season with the emergence of Scheifele as a PPG player, Ehlers as a stud, and Laine as a breakout rookie we valulted past most teams as far as combined high end scoring talent.

The problem is we had crappy goaltending, poor discipline, crappy PK, injury issues, and bad coaching and yes I know the record is stuck,the record is stuck, the record is...........

The real question this year is will our goaltending, discipline, and coaching allow our skill advantage to take over?? We have the horses but that and 5 bucks won't get you anywhere in this league if you leak in net. Pens were going nowhere championship wise until Matt Murray arrived and they flipped coaches and they havehe highest top end skill.
 
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I wish we could have cover photos, this would so be mine. This is going to be a fun year.

Do TO fans know yet? It could crash the board.

They have the 8th best player / 4th best center in the world, they don't care. :sarcasm:
 

HannuJ

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i hate having Laine on this list.
he's arguably nowhere near being a top 50 player...yet.
 

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Zero suprises in seeing this. Last season with the emergence of Scheifele as a PPG player, Ehlers as a stud, and Laine as a breakout rookie we valulted past most teams as far as combined high end scoring talent.

The problem is we had crappy goaltending, poor discipline, crappy PK, injury issues, and bad coaching and yes I know the record is stuck,the record is stuck, the record is...........

The real question this year is will our goaltending, discipline, and coaching allow our skill advantage to take over?? We have the horses but that and 5 bucks won't get you anywhere in this league if you leak in net. Pens were going nowhere championship wise until Matt Murray arrived and they flipped coaches and they havehe highest top end skill.

Pretty much agree. We have tremendous talent on the roster, it really now falls on the coach to show he can utilize it properly. Not at all surprised by the ranking.
 

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If games were decided by top6 scoring only, I'd put a lot of money on the Jets making it to the SCF.
 

GJF

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Dear person that made that graphical chart,

why not put those 6 tied teams with smaller logos next to each other in 2 rows of 3 logos instead of having a pretty much useless fourth section in there, absolutely wasting the chance of information with having a placeholder NHL logo instead?

your graphics and media-information nerd,

GJF
 

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Surprised they arent higher. Wheeler, Scheif, Laine, Ehlers, Little, Perrault, Buff, Trouba ????? Who has 8 players like that?
 

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If , and i mean IF we get goaltending , this is a very good team . We have speed , size , scoring and if healthy , one of the best group of 6 defensemen in the league . Goaltending , goaltending , goaltending is what will make or break us .
 

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If , and i mean IF we get goaltending , this is a very good team . We have speed , size , scoring and if healthy , one of the best group of 6 defensemen in the league . Goaltending , goaltending , goaltending is what will make or break us .
I'd add it also depends on how fast we get into our 8-10 depth D and other significant injuries.
 

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It's a very arbitrary thing but it lends a lot of credence to the talk of us having a top 5 roster, minimum top 10. Still think there's an outside chance we finish top 10 in the league this year with Maurice at the helm. We will see...
 

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They have the 8th best player / 4th best center in the world, they don't care. :sarcasm:

I meant that a NHL network didn't mention TO directly in the tweet since, ya know, it NEEDS to be mentioned that they have the best in every article/post/thread on this board
 

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They have the 8th best player / 4th best center in the world, they don't care. :sarcasm:
It's bizarre that a rookie gets this kind of rank and McDavid is ranked higher than a back to back cup and Smythe winner, or really anyone on that list.

Hype/Hope/Projection ≠ Greatness

I liked AM34 going into the draft last year but I'm sick of this :(
 

Maukkis

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Better get used to seeing Matthews ~25 spots higher than he should be. That's an opinion that you can sell to Leafs fans.
 

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