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Outlook For Non-Playoff Teams
by Paul on 04/10/09 at 05:23 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
Over the next two months, the hockey world will focus on the chase for Lord Stanley’s prize. But before we dive headfirst into that wild journey, let’s sign off for this season and look at the teams that won’t make the spring party.
We’ll touch only on the 12 teams that were officially eliminated from the playoffs as of Friday morning. Let’s start with the Western Conference, and we’ll do the East later today:
Edmonton Oilers
Shame on yours truly for picking the Oilers to win the Northwest Division at the start of the season, but it sounds like we contributed to some inflated egos on that team….Dallas Stars
We were told Thursday the Stars’ front office is not thinking about a coaching change. So it appears coach Dave Tippett is likely safe, which probably makes sense. The man loses Brenden Morrow and Sergei Zubov for almost the entire season and Brad Richards for the most important part of the year—the team’s three best players—and people expect the Stars to survive that? Come on, folks; let’s be realistic….
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