Maelmoor
Registered User
I have a positive feeling, if we can remain somewhat healthy I would put us in the cup contender category, not favourites but we will challenge for it.
This team still has Cup potential. It isn't an easy road, but they are good enough to beat anybody. The question is, will they?
Keys to the Cup
Top 6 no year ending injuries before Dec 1
Can this D get it done defensively.
Will the goaltending be good enough.
It's gonna come down to secondary goal scoring.
We know the D is gonna be weak - most likely. We also know that we have a young goalie in front of a weak D.
If we're gonna win games it's gonna be because someone other than Stamkos and Kucherov are scoring goals.
All-in for Dahlin.
I don't get all the people on the main board picking us to win the division. I say 2nd and we win the first round.
If we don't win the cup it'll be 100% Vasilevskiy's fault.
He's NHL ready right now, certainly in a year.Probably because all they see is the injuries to our biggies and us being able to go from the bottom of the Eastern Conference to 1 point out of the playoffs while fielding a 1/3 AHL roster. They probably didn't notice the apathetic first part of the season or see that we kept losing points to bottom ranked teams. They know that when (and IF) we are healthy, we are a definite threat and will be hungrier for missing out.
BTW, Dahlin is a LHD. Not gonna be paired with Heddy. He'd be the LHD coming up behind Sergachev/Koekkoek in the somewhat distant future if we were even lucky enough to draft him. How high a pick do we have in the 2018 Draft?
That's an odd way to spell Crosby.If we don't win the cup it'll be 100% Vasilevskiy's fault.
Agreed.
But what if he has 15 consecutive postseason shutouts and then gives up 1 goal in each of the last 4 games of the Finals to lose 1-0 each game/lose the series? 110% his fault?
Yes.
If you aren't joking in all of these threads roasting Vasi, you need to check his stats post Bishop trade.
I still suck at identifying sarcasm.
Seriously, I still don't know if you are being serious or not.
Also why not try at least one of Dahlin and Sergachev with VH?