Jason Strudwick

So the division has been very strong.

Last year we had 112 points and won the division in the Pacific.

So it's not that we've been the perennial weak link of the four divisions.

This year was a lot of things that go into it.

When you look at 82 games, when you look at the Olympic year, when you look at all the injuries and the things that can happen to a team over the course of a year, I think you make a big mistake

to say this team had 95 points, this team had 102 points, they must be better.

It's just not like that.

And when you look at, you know, something as simple as the overtime losses, which we had, I don't know, we had 20, 17, I can't remember what it was, but we had a tremendous amount of overtime losses.

Well, that's not the overtime you play in the playoffs.

So there's a lot of those things that when you kind of,

When you look at the underlying numbers, I think our team was pretty strong in many respects for most of the season.

And then as I touched on it to begin my answer, when I look at the makeup of our roster, we like the makeup of our roster.

We did when you had me on last time.

We did at the trade deadline after we made the acquisition of Cole Smith, Nick Dowd.

We added Rasmus Andersen in January prior to that.

So we felt strong that our team was a good team.

Well, he's been really good all year.

And again, when you compare what he'd have in Toronto, 102 points last year, he didn't have 102 points with us.

But the year we got Jack Eichel from Buffalo, he had 36 goals.

The year we won the Cup, I think he had 26.