I think both these teams have the potential to make the playoffs in their very first season if things go really well for them, but there is a great chance that this first season will largely be spent focusing more on behind the scenes work instead and the on-ice product will take some time to find it’s proper shape and form. It will take time and good leadership for the locker room to gel together and also the managing team will have their work cut out for them, deciding roles within their organization, setting up their own operating precedures, not to mention their coaching team having to draw up a game plan from scratch using players that don’t have much history playing together. Having to deal with all that at once will be a tough challenge and thus it wouldn’t surprise me if they did both miss the playoffs this season.