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Adam wrote on Wed, 23 October 2019 02:07

It's not often you need to be concerned about a 7-2-1 team, but there is a lot of red flags here.


No kidding. There have been red flags since the first game, but we are negative Nellies if we mention any areas of concern.

McDavid and Draisaitl are awesome. We already knew that. Neal got off to a great start, don't think even the most optimistic fan could have predicted a Gretzky record breaking start - so that was nice. Bear is a nice revelation. And the goaltending has actually been pretty good. So certainly some positives.

But the big 2 can't play 26min/night - it is simply not sustainable over an 82 game season.

The good news is that the top end of the roster is good. The D is not bad and looks promising for years to come. But that bottom 6 is historically bad.

The aggregated stats line for the bottom 10 forwards reads:

70GP, 1G, 4A, 5Pts, +/- -20, 67 SOG. Like Adam mentions, makes game planning pretty easy.



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