Ridiculous

Last year Boston was an unstoppable inevitable SC champion...until they weren't.

Nobody in July thought Boston would be unstoppable last year... many picked them to miss the playoffs. I'm saying on paper, this CAR team looks truly unstoppable

Well in the offseason, people were predicting them to miss the playoffs, then Bergeron and Krecji signed and they said maybe not. Their regular season performance+deadline acquisitions is what made people think they would win.

The defense looks like a Championship caliber dcore but upfront, they have guys who are young and good but they need them to be 1) healthy and 2) reach the next level.

NJ on the other hand, has a crazy good top 6 (like a top heavy team) on paper, and their depth was pretty good if they can replicate last year, their dcore is a future championship caliber dcore but maybe they get it done now.

Yeah, NJD offense is definitely better. I'm waiting to see what they do with their remaining cap space on their defense for final judgement; they still have 5.6mil left and only Kevin Bahl to sign, perhaps they'll spend more on someone else. And who knows if those two goalies can replicate their success; the 3 goalies CAR have are always good when healthy, which is certainly an issue with their team.

NYR got considerably worse (than their post-TDL team, anyway) and these guys are all getting considerably better haha... nightmare fuel