While Edmonton's season thus far has been successful, sometimes you have to wonder what would have been had they retained a lot of their free agents, improving their team by nearly 4,000 TPE cumulatively, most notably they would be able to replace their well below average third pairing defensemen, Denver Wolfe and Danila Zhernov. If they were able to retain Tor Tuck and Brady McIntyre and add them to an already successful defensive core, one can only begin to wonder what would be able to happen. As often times they find themselves allowing goals that a lot more competent defensemen would not be allowed. Edmonton currently has the 4th highest goals scored and the 5th lowest goals allowed, but if they were to fix their third pairing defense one would have to think they would be scoring more goals and allowing a few less, making them an even better team than they already are.