Doing better than expected and being a good team are completely different things.
No doubt this team is either playing above their level, or were underrated, either way this team does have glaring weaknesses and struggling to beat 2 bad teams is telling.
We have a stretch coming up, next week I believe where we have 3, or 4 games against pretty good teams. Will definitely need to play well and only lose 1 in regulation to make it seem like this team might actually be able to eliminate someone in the playoffs.
There is one glaring weakness on this team, the PP. It stinks and no one can say other wise.
Goaltending was an issue, but since Weber has come back Price has traveled back in time and its 2015 again.
I mean this team is sitting in 4th place in the east, 1 point behind TOR. Better than Wash, Pens and CBJ.
There are no "bad teams" in today's NHL. This isn't pre cap era. On any given night any team can beat any team.
The Knights lost to the Panthers on Saturday what does that tell you about them? CBJ lost to the Blues, Wild lost to the Hawks. If "good" teams always beat bad teams then we would all be rich of mise-o-jeu.
I will take a series against any team. Pens have been pretty iffy this year up and down. Bruins, any series against them is a coin toss regardless of RS record. Leafs, well they have yet to win a round so I take those odds.
The only clear cut team is TB, but they are better then everyone out there.
This team is still young and growing. We don't need to win a cup this year but getting in some playoff games will be great for this group of young players. Sports is about competition in real life not whats on paper.