With a skilled group continuing to improve, it's tough to wonder where this team may have ended up had the AHL not been forced to cancel the season.
Still fresh and the emotions of lost r the utica comets - it has left what was a promising push to merely what could have been.
After coming out of the gates with an eight-game winning streak.
Not losing in the month of october - the comets had an up- and-down year but were right in the thick of the playoff race.
Finishing in third place in the north division - this team was potentially the strongest we've seen since the calder cup finals team from the 2014-15 season.
It's a roster head coach trent cull said was fun to coach - and one that he said got better as the year went on.
Trent cull: we are a team that when we first came in we were excited about pushing our boundaries on how we can score goals and i thought we did that, we showed that.
Then i thought quietly i thought lately, especially the last month, we tried to put a little bit more of a demand talking with the players about hay for us to be successful to keep improving we have to make sure we are being a good defense of team first and our goals against i thought had gotten a little high, our i thought our group as a whole did a really good job improving.
I was just more excited about our group than anything else.
He's not wrong - taking a look at the numbers after finishing 19th in the league in scoring last year - this year's squad finished third in goals for...the highest they've been since the 2015-16 season when they were eighth.
They also moved up to 16th in the a-h-l for goals against - much better than being near the bottom at 28th last year.
And their powerplay - operating at over 22 percent was good for fourth in the league.
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The Utica Comets season officially ends at 34-22-3-2, good for third in the North Division