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BlueWhiteBlood said:All I meant is that we saw lots of Gardiner and I could make a pretty good judgement on him and that Grabovski and Kulemin looked exactly as strong as they were last year.
Where it didn't tell me anything, was that the "full team" never seemed to be on the ice at the same time, so I can't really make any kind of judgment on what kind of team we have as a unit at all.
I think, and I think your own post says you agree, is that while big picture statements about the team are very hard to make after watching pre-season games that statements about individuals are fairer.
There are things to take out of the pre-season about specific players that are good and bad. Grabo looks pretty good, Komisarek doesn't. Gardiner looks closer than we thought, Kadri looks farther away than we might hope.
Kulemin doesn't appear to have taken a step back, Connolly may have to be stuffed with newspaper and packaged with styrofoam peanuts on long flights.
But in terms of team-wide predictions those shouldn't be too heavily influenced by the pre-season and should really be about the level of talent on the club as we've seen from players' past performances.