LegionOfDoom91
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There is a very real likelihood that their goaltending absolutely implodes. Ersson and Fedotov carry massive amounts of risk. Very good teams have their seasons sunk by goaltending. A low end bubble team with an all but assured bottom 3-5 PP? And people in hockey always overreact to it: fired coaches, blaming the defense (true or not). Nothing sinks morale faster. Of course, we'll have to deal with the overcorrection. But that's the most likely way they pick 5-10.
The 2020-2021 Flyers were pretty much bang average everywhere but goaltending which was god awful & sunk them otherwise. Otherwise being average everywhere else probably would have been enough to get them into the playoffs even if they didn’t have a particularly high ceiling beyond it. But you weren’t allowed to criticize Hart back then so it got blamed solely on the defense & other goalies.