Agreed with everything you said. Also, the more I read Souhan, the more I think he is a windbag. I just shook my head when he wrote his most recent article about the Wild. I think most realistic people felt making the playoffs would be an acceptable outcome. Huge roster turnover and no training camp. They raised expectations with their run in the middle of the season, but to expect them to go deep in the playoffs wasn't terribly realistic.