BruinLVGA
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I never said that Matthews was going to regress. As a matter of fact I stated that I thought that he wasn't going to.you said there was a good chance of the Leafs regressing (including Matthews) and Boston finishing ahead of them. No need to pat yourself on the back like this when you got so much wrong
I said multiple times that there were a bunch of extraordinary factors that happened last year for the Leafs + all at the same time - one being the 3 rookies doing what they did - and reasoned that it was way more reasonable for all these things NOT to happen for a second year in a row. Lightning doesn't strike in the same place twice, normally. And if that was indeed the case, it would be likely for the Leafs, who got in the playoffs at the eight seed, to miss this year. Look at what is happening to a team like Edmonton that was so much better than the Leafs last year. If that can happen to a team like that, it could happen to you too.
The Leafs are currently benefitting from the Senators and Canadiens severely under performing. And another thing that I pointed out is that the Leafs were very healthy in 16-17 and that it would have been difficult to repeat that too. It seems like you have been very lucky on that too this season, so far. Count your blessings, pray that won't change.
About the Bruins, I stated that, seeing that we have had 3 seasons between 93 and 96 points, I thought that we would be in the 90s yet again.
I would say that the Bruins have performed better than I thought, considering that we had the following players miss significant time: Rask, Bergeron, Marchand, Bjork, Krejci, Backes, Debrusk, Spooner, etc etc (only Anaheim lost more players than we did): right there it's our #1, #2 lines and a chunk of the line #3 all missing a lot of games. If we had all of them all the time, like you had, we probably would be around where you are in the standings or ahead. Even with that, we're not THAT far away (7 points with 3 games in hand) and there's a lot of hockey left. 2/3rds of the season. We can still be ahead of you.