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Ignoring the unrealistic and extremely lopsided trades (I am willing to bet my life savings that Dubas has JJ hard blacklisted lol) and also the fact that the Penguins are not gonna be a cap team next year...
My main gripe is with the defense. I like Letang, I like Marino, not so much a fan of anything else, like they’re okay, but nothing special. If one of Letang or Marino goes down (cough cough Letang is made of glass) things get ugly super quick. I also don’t know if relying on a goalie with no playoff experience is the play, but he is young and talented so we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. But those four forward lines are lethal and relentless. Physicality, 2-way play, high levels of skill and speed mixed in, that’s literally the forward corps of nightmares for anyone to face. If they don’t beat you by outscoring you they’ll beat you by grinding you into the dirt. So yeah I’d say because there honestly isn’t really a flaw anywhere with their forwards, they have a chance.