Yeah I don’t understand the doom and gloom mentality. We see surprise teams in this league pop up virtually every year.
A 5-12, injury-riddled squad who had an undebatable bad head coach and resides in an awful division is just the type of candidate to be that sort of team.
Add pieces at just the right spots, hit a homerun at HC, have a good draft, and suddenly you’re right back in the thick of things.
The margin separating good teams from average or even bad teams is a lot thinner than people realize.
I mean, are we going to contend to be some 15-2 juggernaut anytime soon? Probably not. But we aren’t far away from at least being a factor.