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The New Division

I see Boston and Montreal maybe falling back a bit this year, although by no means are they bad. Detroit seems on the way down but they can still hurt you and will compete for a spot.

the sens should be good as well, but I seriously doubt they will get anything like .936 or .941 out of their goalies over a full season. Ryan plus a healthy Hot Karl should boost their offence enough to compensate for it though.

Tampa can score, but yzerman needs to add more help in net and on D for them to make the playoffs. Florida will probably be quite bad again and I think have no shot. Buffalo I think is trending downwards as they will trade Miller and Vanek at some point to continue the rebuild.
 
Leafs and Sens should be the two heavyweights, Habs and Wings in the next tier.

But only if Price can stop a puck. If not, they're going to draft high.
 
I think the last thing that will happen in our entire division is a collapse of the sens goaltending. I worry about a lot of things, our goaltending is probably the last thing I worry about. We have a goalie in his prime playing fantastic hockey for three years now. Behind him we have a young, huge, technically sound goalie who might be even better.
 
1. Hot Karl >> Phaneuf
2. Methot >> Gardiner
3. Cowen>= Franson
4. Gunnarsson> Phillips
5. Weircioch >> Ranger
6. Corvo = Liles/fraser

Our depth beyond #6>> yours
 
I'm gonna go ahead and disagree strongly. Cowen is already showing signs of being an elite shutdown defenceman, with some offence as well.
 
Methot's career high is 17 points. Unless he is Scott Stevens without the puck, I don't see the argument here.

But apparently he is "substantially better" than Gardiner. And somehow Cowen is on the same level as Franson. Lehner is better than Schneider.

:drink
 
theREALkoreaboy said:
I think the last thing that will happen in our entire division is a collapse of the sens goaltending. I worry about a lot of things, our goaltending is probably the last thing I worry about. We have a goalie in his prime playing fantastic hockey for three years now. Behind him we have a young, huge, technically sound goalie who might be even better.
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I don't think people are suggesting that Anderson will go back to playing .905 hockey. Even if he "collapses" back to .920, that's a good chunk of goals you need to make up for next year.
 
Your defence tends to look better than it is when your goalie is .936-.941. we'll see how the sens do this season when Anderson will have to play more than 25-30 games.
 
Methot is good. He's pretty solid. He's not there to put up points, though his numbers will go up if he's paired with Karlsson.

I actually think our D is pretty suspect. Phillips is declining, wiercioch is pretty raw. I actually liked what I saw from Gryba.

Lots of things you could pick apart about the Ottawa D. Cowen is the least of our problems back there. He looks pretty good to me though.
 
leaffan2005 said:
Methot's career high is 17 points. Unless he is Scott Stevens without the puck, I don't see the argument here.

But apparently he is "substantially better" than Gardiner. And somehow Cowen is on the same level as Franson. Lehner is better than Schneider.

:drink
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You heard that methot is one of the top defencemen in Canada, right? Don't believe me? Talk to Steve yzerman and hockey Canada.

And I didn't say that Lehner is better than Schneider. I've said that I think it's entirely plausible that within two years, we will all say that. Lehner is already excellent, and he shows signs of being a stud, elite no.1 goalie. I think Lehner has a very good chance to be a star in this league.
 
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