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Dude, if you take any team's top 2 forwards and franchise defenseman away from them and replace them with a bunch of kids and you go on to lead the league in rookie games, no one is going to expect you to make the playoffs, let alone contend.
I mean, w/e, I don't really care wtf anyone else thinks because I considered anything done in the playoffs to be a big cherry on the year. Getting stomped on by the Devils sucked bawls, especially with the top teams in the West being eliminated, but overall it's a pretty great year (as opposed to last year's second-round elimination, which was a huge disappointment).
Going forward, this year will be remembered as the beginning of the Claude Giroux era in Philadelphia, plus the year they got Couturier, Schenn, Voracek, Simmonds, Read, Bryzgalov (for better or worse). Going forward the core is going to be Giroux and 4-5 of those guys, plus guys like JVR, Wellwood, Gustafsson, Grossmann. In other words, most of the team's best players were guys who weren't key players or weren't even around in 2010.
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