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Kings don't start their 40 days in the desert until Thursday. (At Buffalo-Boston-Atlantic Canada-Ducks-Vegas.) We have another lovely trip in December, visiting the entire old Patrick Division and Nashville, too.
If we can survive them, maybe we'll pick up some momentum at home waiting for Doughty to heal. Theoretically, we shouldn't be that much worse than last year's 99 points (Foegele and Jeannot both prospered in the exhibitions, and LaFerriere and Byfield should continue to develop), but the backline could spring a hole at any second, and who knows if Kuemper-Rittich-Copley will be able to cover for them.
I'd like to think we're still better than the Ducks and Sharks and perhaps the Kraken, but as far as the division's big boys go, who knows?
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