Lagoon wrote:Flo The Action wrote:PTFlea wrote:Odd trade for Arizona. Kessel is old, but still effective - or he was in Pittsburgh anyway
What I’m getting from Arizona and the moves they’ve recently made is that they are pissed and want to make the playoffs in a bad way. The rebuild is over.its time to see what they have. No doubt that Tocchet had something to do with this also.
They’re not winning any cups soon but again, the blues winning this year is giving a false sense of hope to a few teams I imagine.
I don’t even just think it was the Blues winning, I think it was Columbus dismantling TB, NYI taking out Pittsburgh, Colorado whooping Calgary and Carolina besting the defending champs.
Arizona should’ve been a playoff team last season. They just got hit with some key long term injuries. They will be a playoff team next year for my money.
Yup all true. But this season was an outlier. There won’t be this many upsets for years to come. Although with the cap going down there is a chance for certain teams to take advantage of the situation and take their team much better.