- Mar 4, 2011
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See, I just don't agree with this. Get this team clicking in all cylinders and it will murder any team it faces. I truly believe that. You still have areas you need to upgrade, but those upgrades are going from Brassard to a 3C who fits better or Maatta to a stronger skating PMD. They're not going from say Greg McKegg to Sheahan.
I'm just not sure we'll ever get rolling to the degree you want with the defense we have in place. Oleksiak and Maatta are just so bad, and JJ is meh. Pettersson is a good start by JR but it's not enough yet.
It's almost Christmas and we're still mediocre. Maybe we'll pull a Florida or Tampa and have a really hot second half. I hope so. But I wouldn't necessarily count on it. Like I said this may just be what we are.
But being mediocre doesn't mean we can't make the playoffs since our competition for the last few playoff spots involves teams that - regardless of our struggles - are definitely much worse than we are at least on paper.