I'm over the whole shit about "good teams", "bad teams". Every team in the NHL can beat anyone else on a nightly basis, seen that happen 5000000 times, 2 games ago people were crowing about how the Leafs had turned over a new (well) leaf, and then Columbus and St. Louis tuned their ass back to back.
We made Pittsburgh look bad because we suffocated them, but we did similar things in the Dallas game, Dallas had nothing going for almost 2 full periods. Carolina game we did a lot of positive things too, just made a few unfortunate mistakes in the 3rd and they jumped all over every mistake.
I don't care anymore about the opponent. We can play with anyone and then some when we are on our game, regular season is just about getting into the groove eventually, it's a marathon, not a sprint. I ain't afraid of anyone else, yeah some other teams have some good players, we do too, so it's like "f*** off, and drop the puck" at this point.
I don't look at any other team as some kind of benchmark anymore, past that point after last season. Regular season is just about building our game.