Ultimately they did not deserve to make the playoffs, the lack of scoring, special teams, forwards too old to produce, or backcheck, inability to get games to overtime with the last two seasons very flawed teams that many past years would not have qualified or finished below Doug Weight's 2017 team with 94 points/12 games over. The coaching was a problem. Sorokin faced fewer shots, but also had to play with virtually no breaks after Varlamov was supposed to be out for a day. They did compete as we saw few clunkers, this team did not come out and mail in too many games, and beat Winnipeg, Florida, Washington, and did not look out of place vs top teams but found ways to lose.
New York Eliminated
