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Flyers
Capitals
Lightning
Wings
San Jose
Chicago
everyone else is hit or miss as far as offense. Pittsburgh, while successful, is very top heavy and succeptable to a tight D, and Colorado is very young and goes on streaks. Vancoucer up until recently has had a tough time getting their offense going, but have potential.
as far as goalies, Thomas and Price are on fire, and Quick is very steady. Pavlec is a surprise considering his inconsistency last season. Miller is still elite, but Buffalo's defense has been sold off over the last couple of seasons, so he has a tough road ahead. Hiller is in that same boat, great player on an OK team.
But as far as defense and goalies go, yes there are some good ones, but overall their success is do mostly to the watered down talent pool that exists in the league. Too many teams, and too little elite level scoring to go around. So no matter how much they change the goalie equipment, remove lines, and supe-up sticks, scoring is not going to rise by much because its hard to put together a complete line of elite talent anymore, much less a team full of it.
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