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Originally Posted by ukyo
You're being overly pessimistic in order to lower your own expectations for this season, aren't you?
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No....I just removed my homer glasses a long time ago and realized that a player is not better and does not have more potential than those of other teams just because they wear a Kings jersey.
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Originally Posted by ukyo
OK... let's not just pick some random names, let's go lineup by lineup, and let's highlight the players that are under 27 (I'm arbitrarily picking 27 since I don't know what the "prime" age is for hockey and they use 27 in baseball). You're telling me that you don't think that this lineup:
Los Angeles
F: Frolov-Kopitar-Williams
F: Purcell-Stoll-Brown
F: Simmonds-Handzus-Moller
D: Doughty-Drewiske
D: Greene-Quincey
D: Johnson-O'Donnell
G: Quick
has more potential for improvement this season than the following lineups?:......
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Honestly?.......no.
The Kings have some great young players...but other than Doughty none of them are considered elite. That does not give them an advantage over any other team that has one elite prospect with a handful of great ones. Pittsburgh and Chicago had/have the edge over other teams because they had/have more than one elite player (Chicago=Kane/Toews).....(Pittsburgh=Crosby/Malkin).