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Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC
I can't give you a complete breakdown of why, but basically everything is wrong. They are last in scoring, last in penalty minutes, and 29th in scoring defense. Their entire first line is hurt. Now Cam Ward is out for a month.
It is a mess. And it doesn't appear to have hit bottom yet.
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Other than the points you noted:
- Old, decrepit defense. They let the one talent they had back there (Babchuk) go to Russia.
- The fascination with bringing back players whose ship has already sailed (Cullen, Aaron Ward, Cole)
- Cole's injury issues.
- Rod Brind'amour's roid shipments finally stopped?
- The fact that the Southeast may actually be not half bad this year with improving teams in Atlanta and Tampa. That's a lot of "free wins" that went by the wayside.
That's just off the top of my head. And yeah, no way have they hit bottom yet.