Yes, I know preseason isn't even over, but we saw these teams last year, FA is pretty much gone, and we know enough, so what are your predictions then?

Here are my terrible ones:
Eastern Conference:
1. Washington Capitals
2. Buffalo Sabres
3. Pittsburgh Penguins
4. Philadelphia Flyers
5. Boston Bruins
6. Ottawa Senators
7. Tampa Bay Bolts
8. Carolina Hurricanes
9. New Jersey Devils
10. Montreal Candiens
11. New York Rangers
12. Toronto Make Beliefs
13. Atlanta Thrashers
14. Florida Panthers
15. New York Islanders

Western Conference:
1. San Jose Sharks
2. Chicago Blackhawks
3. Vancouver Canucks
4. Los Angeles Kings
5. Detroit Redwings
6. Phoenix Coyotes
7. Colorado Avalanche
8. Nashville Predators
9. Calgary Flames
10. Dallas Stars
11. Columbus Bluejackets
12. Anaheim Ducks
13. Minnesota Wild
14. St. Louis Blues
15. Edmonton Oilers

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The only thing I strongly disagree with is New Jersey. I think they will compete with Pittsburgh to win the division, and you have them out of the playoffs. They will be just as good as last year.

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I only said that as Broduer is really slowing down, yes they did have the lowest Goal Against last year as a team still, but I'm not so sure he has much left in him.

I think Philly is much stronger then people are anticipating, they might have made the playoffs on a measly shootout win, but stability in goal will do wonders for them, well as long as they don't have a shit ton of injuries.

I did forget Kovalchuk was with Jersey too for a bit.

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Yeah seriously when the hell will Broduer be bad? Come on. Every year we say "he's not going to be good. He's too old". He defies the laws of physics! (Just like NHL 11 online.)

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And Carolina's way too high. Unless Eric Staal carries the team ala Ovechkin 2007-2008.

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Carolina too high. St. Louis too low.

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Here are mine
East
1. Pittsburgh - Fleury rebounds and they have nice depth on defense
2. Boston - Rask takes them to this spot
3. Washington - very weak division, will most likely get beat in the first round unless they get a goalie
4. Buffalo - Ryan Miller
5. New Jersey - lots of depth on d but lacking scoring other than Kovie and Parise
6. Tampa - addition of Simon Gagne helps out and Stmakos will have a huge year
7. Montreal - loss of halak is going to kill them but if Mike Camalarri shows up like he did in the playoffs they will get in
8. Philly - still not really sold on Leighton and the loss of Gagne is going to hurt
9. Atlanta - Chicago's may put them in but they might face the cup hangover
10. Ottawa - loss of Volchenkov is going to really hurt this douchebag organization
11. NY Islanders - will show improvement but not enough to get in the playoffs
12. Carolina - hill billy south gets another taste of rookies again
13. Florida - Voukoun is the only reason they will not be dead last
14. Toronto - I don't care if they might have improved this team but they lack at forward so much it not even funny
15. NY Rangers - Gabourik is all this team has and when your behind Toronto your GM should be fired

West
1. LA - this could be finally there year
2. Chicago - core players are still together
3. Vancouver - very weak division
4. Phoenix - last year was no fluke, they actually look better than last year
5. San Jose - no real change except in net
6. Detroit - team is still good but old age might hurt this team
7. St. Louis - Halak is a huge but they still lack forward depth
8. Colorado - year 2 of youth movement
9. Nashville - loss of Hamhuis is going to hurt this cheap team
10. Dallas - Turco not hear probably means they miss
11. Anaheim - rebuilding is good for this team, could surprise teams
12. Columbus - Rick Nash finally asks if he can get out of hear
13. Calgary - Slow and old and along with Rick Nash, Iggy finally gets out of this mess that the Sutters have created
14. Edmonton - Hall would need to play every position for them to even have a shot of making it
15. Minnesota - boring ass team that is just reeling

Don't make fun of this, this took me half an hour to come up with

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Plus the Flyers got rid of Gagne to make room for the floater Zherdev. They could win the conference but they could also really suck with lots of questions

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I don't agree, because Carolina played exceptionally well the second half of the year, you seem to forget they were in the running for the final playoff spot with like 5-10 games remaining, but would have had to win out.

Had they not started the year so badly, they would have been 7th or 8th last year easily. One of the hottest teams after the Olympic break.

St Louis, well I never seen them play so I sorta forgot about them really, I also totally forgot they had Halak, if that's the case, they compete for a playoff spot easily then.

Obviously anyone can make predictions about it too.

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East
1. New Jersey
2. Washington
3. Buffalo
4. Philly
5. Boston
6. Pittsburgh
7. Montreal
8. Tampa Bay

West
1. Vancouver
2. San Jose
3. Detroit
4. Chicago
5. LA
6. Nashville
7. Anaheim
8. Calgary

If Carey Price doesn't work out in Montreal, the goal-tending situation could get ugly.

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