Fair enough, at least here your talking about more than just how far we made it. My issue though is that even if we accept that the roster was better in the playoffs, the same issues happened. We sat back too early in games, we gave up leads, we sucked on the PP.
I just don't see support for Boucher as a coach so much as just saying the roster was better or worse and that's the explanation of the results. Heck, go back to the playoff GDT, and it's not like confidence was ever all that high. There were lots of complaints then too.
I do agree that the team wasn't just lucky, there was more to it than that, they had some great performances, but, I'm not convinced that the team as assembled for the playoffs was better than say Washington, or the Penguins, or Columbus. We weren't clearly better than Toronto imo, and a healthy Boston team could have given us trouble. I liked us against NYR, more because of the way we matched up though. Basically, we could beat any of those teams but weren't a sure thing by any stretch, and in many cases, imo were the underdogs. Could we repeat if it was all done again, sure, but I think the odds are against it.