I get credulous' point. Elite talent always trumps depth. Canucks have Boeser, and he's coming off a health scare, and DeBrusk, who has been nothing more than an adequate top-6 producer, then a bunch of guys who are good complimentary players but aren't threats. Like last season, I don't think this is a deep forward group but a wide one. Granted, part of that is you expect the two-top six centres to buoy most of the offense (and obviously that comes with concerns over Pettersson) and be two legitimate #1 centres.
I'm also not concerned since offensive players are usually pretty easy to add during the trade deadline.
Yeah the forward depth isn’t crazy amazing, what’s amazing is having Quinn and Hronek driving offense for about 25 min a night.
If you think about it, having 3 90+ point players (Quinn, Miller, Petey) is like having a baseline of scoring 2 goals per game. Garland’s line will give you .5goals. So with that, it’s reasonable to expect that we’ll score at the very least 2.5 goals per game. I think with the winger depth, we should be able to squeeze more and get closer to 3 goals per game.
If the PK can be as good as what we’ve seen so far in preseason, we’ll probably be positive in special team battles. We average 2.7GAA last season with a pretty mid PK. I think it’s realistic to see an improvement where we give up like 2.5GAA.
So it’s reasonable to expect us to be good in the regular season. Those averages don’t matter as much in the post season but it’s very likely we’ll get help at TDL. I think we need like 1LHD and 1 more forward. If we get that then we are pretty scary.
