OldTimeHockey
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Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:Well, that's the most optimistic take you can put on it, I guess. As I see it, JVR is a big question mark and McClement's impact will be modest at best. The goaltending is even weaker going in than last year, and, for all the knocks on Schenn, the D is arguably weaker as well. Those 2 factors right there would lead me to predict that we could have a year like MTL did last year.
Not turning this into another referendum on Burke, but on the narrow question posed by the thread, his performance this offseason has been pretty thin.
And Nutman: you may be right about Carlyle, though. That is an X-factor -- Wilson definitely held the team back. If Carlyle gets the team playing cohesively like PHX does, then they might challenge for an 8th spot.
While I agree with most of what you said, how is the goaltending weaker than last year? Is there really a difference between Reimer/Gustavsson and Reimer/Scrivens?
i personally prefer Scrivens over Gustavsson. And in fact, like I've stated before, I think Scriven may even have a brighter future than Reimer(again, just my opinion).
So that leaves the question mark that is Reimer. I think many Leaf fans and the local media, played too much into Reimer's run at the end of the the 10/11 season. He was a question mark coming into last year and is once again one coming into this year.