Quoting: Wqrrior
everyone is overrated.
they rode a hot streak and most of the media and fans believed thats what the team's average performance is, when really it was a peak.
Toffoli and Petry also were very hot last year in general and that was bound to regress to a mean a bit.
Caufield also isn't half as good as the absurd levels of overhype. He still has potential, of course, but he should be in the AHL and not have ever appeared in a Calder spotlight.
I called them out on this throughout last year, but apparently you aren't allowed to say anything bad about caufield or the habs without being a "habs hater", but here we are a year later and its all happening right as expected. There's nothing surprising about their performance at all, IMO.
gonna disagree with some of those points...
not everyone was overrated but a couple very important players were
hot streak 100% true
toffoli had a 44 goal pace. zero chance he was gonna hit that again lmao
petry had a 63 point pace. again, zero chance he was gonna hit that again at 34 and older
caufield got put in the spotlight too soon. blaming MB for that
those are the three that i can think of off the top of my head (mostly because you talked about it lol). not everyone, but those three were very significant overrates.
then gally fell off a cliff, weber was hurt, savard didnt fit very well, and half the team got hurt