There are only two bad teams in the NHL

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Last year's bad teams are playing quite well. Ottawa and Anaheim look really good. Even Chicago has been decent. League parity is way up.
No one is out of the playoff race in the Eastern Conference. Thus far, there have been only 2 truly bad teams.

Unfortunately, one of them is the Blues. And the other bad team has won 2 in a row.

If we beat the Rangers tonight, suddenly this team is 5-3-4 so far through November, with points in each of their last 4 games, at a 58% points percentage, which is the equivalent of a 95 point team.

How did that go?

After losing 2-3 in NY, the Blues are 4-4-4 so far through November, with points in 3 of their last 4 games, at a 50% points percentage, which is the equivalent of an 82pt team.

When a single game sways your stats that much, perhaps it's too early to call. This team appears to be a loser, as they did last year and other recent years until the 2nd half of the season.

This team is basically riding on 20.5 y/o Dvorsky to take over. Over course Thomas is still only 26.6 and was doing well at 19 with 13min ATOI. Remember his struggles through his early 20s? Injuries and whatnot. Played only 99 games his 20/21 years, then ripped 77pts in 72 games at 22, finally getting 18min+ a night.

Without trading away prospects we want to keep and draft picks we should keep, it will be hard to upgrade this team in a real way. The conservative route is let the team prove it one way or another, sell whatever vets you can at the deadline if you're still a loser. Unless Army has some real serious moves in mind, it's hard to see anything materializing that would make sense.

The team struggled with consistency for nearly the entirety of last season, then something clicked after the break. This year is much the same. Some nights they give you what appears to be false hope. One of the worst starts to a season at home in history. Is this like a Gloria thing where we're hoping to catch them on a rebound again like last season (and, yes, 2019)?

I'd probably be ok if Army traded our 1st rounder this year for a legit piece or two to make that happen. Or a 2nd for someone like Fowler. Maybe he can dump a player or two.

In 11 games through October they were a pathetic 3-6-2 for a 36% pts percentage. Current: 43%

Trending in the right direction, improving from pathetic to mildly pathetic, but I wonder what will be enough for Army to decide which direction to take, and what he's looking at for options.