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trentmccleary said:
No. That's a league average offense. Last year they were a bubble team-in (the playoffs). There isn't much reason to expect notable internal improvements among existing players.
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They had unsustainably bad goaltending for much of the year, to go along with unsustainably bad injury luck. So thats two compelling reasons to expect “internal improvements” just by some regression to the mean.

Sens were possibly the trendiest “dark horse” pick going into this year’s playoffs; depending on the rest of the moves they make I could absolutely see them reprising that role next season.
 
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Forward group has got to be the smallest, slowest and softest in the NHL by a country mile and they don't even have high-end talent to compensate. Really ugly.

Defense looks adequate, but nothing spectacular.

Ullmark seems unpredictable and unreliable.

If Travis Green gets that rag-tag crew into the playoffs he should be a lock for the Jack Adams.
 
Iggys Dome said:
That bottom six is not good. Top line is eh and 2nd line is fine.

To answer your question, barring any more moves as it stands Ottawa is worse.
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It obviously lacks a Top-6 forward, which is by far the main mission for Staios this summer (needs a good backup goalie too). I put Kaliyev as a placeholder (who lead the AHL in goals last season). Even though I'd be curious to see what Kaliyev could do in that role for a full season, you can't really afford that so there's obviously a gigantic hole on LW

But OP's lineup is not optimal, we can agree on that. However, this roster below is very deep and all 4 lines can produce offense and the last 3 lines can be good defensively. Hopefully Staios find a good 2-way forward for line #1

Kaliyev - Stützle - Batherson
Eklund - Cozens - Zetterlund
Halliday - Pinto - Giroux
Foegele - Greig - Amadio

nogatco rd said:
They had unsustainably bad goaltending for much of the year, to go along with unsustainably bad injury luck. So thats two compelling reasons to expect “internal improvements” just by some regression to the mean.

Sens were possibly the trendiest “dark horse” pick going into this year’s playoffs; depending on the rest of the moves they make I could absolutely see them reprising that role next season.
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"Healthy seasons" don't happen very often for Ottawa though... they'd need to have Habs luck for once (their 6 best players missed a whooping total of 3 games lol)

Defense can be very good though

Sanderson - Zub (58.1% xGF%)
Chabot - Spence (64.4% xGF%)
Kleven - Yakemchuk
Matinpalo

MoneyManny said:
We had a good playoff run, your posts are blatant jealousy.
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Not really, he's just responding to blatant trolling. Look at the initial post he quoted.
 
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Conservative prediction for Ottawa IMO,

52 wins (combined regulation and OT) 20 losses, 10 OTLs - 114 points. 4th in the Atlantic.
 
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