Id say playoff dreams died last....time to start dreaming about what next years team will look like
When you subtract a team's top six scorers from the previous season (including their top defensive pair) and replace them with basically Rudolfs Balcers and a revolving door of PTOs, that team is probably not going to be very good. I like watching this team, but they didn't really ever look like they were going to be in the playoffs.
I think they were hoping for guys like Chartier, Roy and Sandberg to take a step forward and instead two of those guys were hurt for a lot of the year and the other was mostly invisible.
We could've used some more forward depth, and we had no real standout defensemen. Oh well. Next year does look like it'll be a better team.