In the 95 playoffs when the wings were huge favorites to beat the devils no one realized that the devils lost to new york the year before in 7 games. of course the rangers went on to win the cup. In 97 phily was favored to beat us and we just took out colorodo in 6 in which colorodo swept the eastern conference champion the year before. My point is if this is any indication of who to watch out for? Buffalo lost in 7 games with all those injuries last year in the conference finals. Do you think we have improved enough over last year, and who in the western conference has improved over what they did last year ? obiviously anaheim added pronger San jose added guerin and nashville added dumont and forsberg. Under this thinking has Detroit improved theirselves as much or more as the other teams have? By the way sorry I spell so bad.