GDT: Around The League 24/25. Parity, blessed parity.

[K1984]

The Panthers are probably just bored with the regular season. For a team that returned the entire core of a Cup winning team and a Cup finals team the year before they have to be considered an elite team still. Other than that, I don't see much in the east in terms of elite teams. The west has 4-6 depending on what one thinks of the Jets and Wild.

Unfortunately I think the Panthers will go through the Eastern playoffs again with relative ease only to match whichever team wins the war out west to show up beaten, bruised, and worn out.

The competitive imbalance in the Conferences is unfair, but it's life I guess. Very likely that more than one team that goes out in the first round out West could have a very good shot at getting to the Final if they were just in the other conference.

 

[CupofOil]

Oddly enough, I think this may be the Leaf's year to go deep. Imo they are playing worse than last year, but on paper they have improved in defense and goaltending. I still don't believe in that core, but it's like you say where it seems the rest of the conference has fallen off.

That is kind of funny because that's what it took for the Raptors to win it all too

They could, the east is ripe for the taking. The Leafs ran it elite teams like the Bruins, Lightning and Panthers in years past but none of those teams are as formidable this season and I do think Berube is a better coach for a playoff run than Keefe so it's possible but that core is allergic to clutch outside of Nylander so it's hard to win 4 playoff series when a core consistently shrinks in the big moments.

 

[CanadasTeam99]

Canucks were called out last year by several astute posters on here for their unbelievable and unsustainable shooting %, and it has come to pass this year, as they slip back to the norm.

I laugh at how bad their "stars" are.

Boeser is more invisible than RNH. Just brutal player. Drives nothing. Does nothing. Had a goal bounce off of him in Toronto. Pure pp merchant

Demko is like 883 and two wins in eight starts.

They deserve all of this humility

Miller got four points in mtl then none in four games lol

All I hear about weak skinny Pete is how he was selke like in Toronto lol. He's looked so bad this year that fans and media are reverting to him being just great defensively..

Like Mathews back in the day. Leaf fans started talking about puck retrievals,, blocks, etc. Lol

 

[K1984]

I laugh at how bad their "stars" are.

Boeser is more invisible than RNH. Just brutal player. Drives nothing. Does nothing. Had a goal bounce off of him in Toronto. Pure pp merchant

Demko is like 883 and two wins in eight starts.

They deserve all of this humility

Miller got four points in mtl then none in four games lol

All I hear about weak skinny Pete is how he was selke like in Toronto lol. He's looked so bad this year that fans and media are reverting to him being just great defensively..

Like Mathews back in the day. Leaf fans started talking about puck retrievals,, blocks, etc. Lol

Want to laugh? One of those fools thought that was so amazing that it deserved a thread on the mains.

JT Miller ANOTHER 4 point night