With all due respect my responses:
I'm responding to the above not the general argument about how strong this team is.
1) What does that have to do with anything if we're icing nowhere close this team in the regular season? This is literally almost a different team. You might as well complain about some other team losing to a bad Devils team. And the Devils played their two best players while we sat probably our top 5 best players, at least.
2) Skjei didn't play tonight, so tonight's performance is not relevant. Staal, fine.
3) Fine on this point about Lundqvist though once again his performance today was behind a team that will barely resemble the team he'll play behind.
4) That's fair, but once again, not overly relevant to this game. Most of these guys won't even play and those that will other than maybe Buch and Chytil will be depth guys.
5) That's fair, but their #1 center and probably second-best player (Kakko is young) didn't play this game.
6) Trouba didn't even play this game.
7) Ok, but see #4.
Basically, your post was looking at the worst-case scenario and every issue with the team and ignoring all the positives. I get that you were building a case for an argument you made but reading that you'd think we were a bottom of the barrel team. Also, tonight's game wasn't evidence for any of those things other than maybe Staal and Lundqvist.