wellonegm05*
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The Devils were crap during the first half of 05-06, but were amazing during the first half of 09-10. They followed that up with complete crap over the first half of 10-11 but were good in the second half.
There isn't much rhyme or reason to it. You can't explain every statistical variation with a narrative, because these variations would occur by pure chance even if every team was a carbon copy of each other.
That 05-06 team was a clusterduck of last minute panic roster decisions by Lou post lockout.