oobga
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Interesting discussion. I'd add though that team depth contributed massively to keeping the puck out with a 94.3% playoff PK that was actually outscoring opposition. 18-19 penalties killed in the final. Now I venture this is not a repeatable event. Certainly harder with 3 contributing d-men gone this summer, Ceci, Desharnais, Broberg and a secondary forward McLeod.
A massive factor in their playoff success in a largely thankless role done by the team's support players.
I do doubt that happens again, even still having the main PK guys, aside from Ceci and McLeod. That was an amazing run, kinda like some coach bump winning streaks, or 2 guys putting up points not seen for 3 decades for their position.
Stories and crazy things will change every year. A lot of things will be different next season, different guys will break out, others will struggle. Just gotta try to make sure we have the best team possible with as few obvious weaknesses as we can manage to help our odds as much as possible. I'm pretty sure most would agree that setting up ourselves for Nurse-Ceci again would not be a great idea for that. Especially since we know Broberg didn't even want to be here, we were setting up for that very nicely. Still gotta hope Bowman has another move though.