No, not worried we'll be average, worried we'll be just a wee bit less horrible than 1-3 other bad teams.
When I said hovering around .500 I really meant like 5 games under which the way the league is these days is pretty close to the bottom in January.
I just don't see how we're not awful next season. We were the worst possession team in the league, and we just bought out the player who was, by far, our best possession player. Enroth and Neuvirth are going to be under siege for most of the season. I don't see either giving us the goaltending that Miller provided during his time here last season. Nor do I see us beating the percentages as the Leafs did for a period a time; we don't have Bernier-level goaltending, we don't have elite finishers around the net, and we're not going to have a PP that can help offset our 5-on-5 woes.
We had a -91 goal differential last year. That was the worst 82-game mark since the 2005-06 Blues, which occurred at a time when teams were patching rosters together after the first lockout. Looking the last three 82-game seasons, the 29th place team has had an average goal differential of -61.6. Think about that! We could improve by roughly 25-30 goals--a huge improvement--and still be the odds-on favorite to finish dead last.