Can we wait and see what the roster looks like before declaring the team "exact same"?
I don't see Bonino, Wheeler, Goodrow, Pitlick, or, Gustaffson for starters and zero percent chance that any of these players are on this team.
Compare apples to apples. Don't compare this roster to last year's post deadline roster (which still isn't the same). Compare opening night rosters to each other because that's a bit more fair.
Also, this deadline we will have A LOT more space to add that "final piece" then we did last year. There are other wild cards - will Kakko take a step, will Chytil stay healthy, will Jones be a mainstay, will Miller take a step, will Smith fit in with KZ, will one of Othmann or Berard make the team, will Estrom make the team, etc...
Let's see where we're at opening night.