Did anyone claim they weren’t? When comparing to last season however, Muzzin did not play at all and Brodie was pretty bad. Not sure what them once being good for us has to do with comparing this year to last year?
Yep, and pretty much everyone has acknowledged that. I actually wouldn’t sleep on Stolarz though. Not going to suggest he definitely takes this opportunity and really grabs it, but I see potential.
Lots went wrong last year and we comfortably made the playoffs so I’m going to need you to elaborate on how exactly we fell apart?
Lots went spectacularly wrong in the playoffs and we still pushed a very good bruins team to the brink. Is anyone satisfied with losing round 1? No of course not.
Losing round one is a possibly for sure, but without knowing how the new coaching goes or an opponent or how the new guys fit or what we do at the deadline, there’s literally nothing to base your loser, defeatist bs “I think they will likely lose in the first found, even if things go right” take on.
The D is improved by a much greater margin than the offense has been impacted. They lost Bertuzzi, big whoop. He was slow and just does not handle the puck well.
Goaltending has always potentially improved by a good amount over what we got last year.