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22 Comments
The Flames are hoping too many players have a bounce-back season, and many of them are older veterans…
if demko played like demko we would of had a few more wins. now if we can have an average penalty kill then thats a few more wins. that would put us as a playoff team.
Flames were just horribly unlucky. Plus very down year from Markstrom. They kinda should get better.
Preds were decimated by injuries and deadline fire sale. But, well, Saros kept Nashwaukee Predmirals in the race. He can't work this magic all the time. Or can he? And, well, healthy Forsberg would be great to have.
Canucks – wheel of mediocrity keeps spinning, until someone finally makes a rebuilt call.
i think the main standouts for calgary this past season, are the losses vs teams like chicago and san jose
No playoffs my prediction for canucks slow started October November December? Right shot Defense is slow so far age Cole Hronek Myers January Bounce Back same old same old losing Are Division Teams
My Preds will make it, but lack of depth and young legs will deny us a deep run.
probably Preds. It's rare for Canada to have nice things when it comes to the NHL.
1.)nucks 2.)smash 3.)flames
While the Preds are technically the closest on paper, I'm not entirely sure that I've ever seen a team that has nine picks within the first four rounds making the playoffs in a season. They struggle with scoring goals and with Ryan Johansen and Matt Duchene out of the core, I'm not sure that we'll see much offense from Nashville unless someone else breaks out… which I feel is doubtful.
In the long-run, maybe missing the playoffs would be ultimately beneficial to the Preds all things considered.
What was missing for the Canucks in the first half was the penalty kill. Fix that and it is a very different season last year.
Calgary should have a bounce back year, it's really just a question of if markstrom want's to make saves this year or not.
I think the Flames and Preds have a better chance of making it over the Canucks
I think Rick Tocchet as Canucks coach will be an advantage over other contending teams near playoffs edge..
If the Canucks are in this conversation why aren’t the Blues? The Blues have one bad season (still better than the Canucks) and now we completely write them off?
Based off your end of video analysis its definitely the Canucks
Some of those stats you take with a grain of salt they are VAGUE stats.
I simply look at a simple stat and that is plus minus you NEED to be a plus unless you have an amazing powerplay you cannot consistently win a minus team.I can explain WHY those other stats like unblocked shots etc etc are not accurate indicators but would take me way too long.
I can look at a team like Ottawa last year they like Calgary could have made the playoffs if not for some big minute guys having a MINUS stat.Debrincat and Batherson were useless if he is on the ice for double the goals against than they score.
You can't say goaltending is ever a difference and this has been proven over many years as goalies move from team to team their stats reflect the teams quality.Binnington went from goat to invisible Kuemper goat to invisible Patrick Roy Goat to shipped out gets back on a good team Colorado and wins the cup Colorado was actually a VERY good team expected to win the cup even before Roy arrived.
“At least they got a point”
If the team in question has that six or seven times a year, that’s not bad. That’s a huge boost if a good team has a rough night.
When you get to ten, are you really a good team?
Let’s look at a comparable to the 2022-23 Flames, Florida Panthers circa 2011-12.
38-26-18 for 94 points and first in the South East Division. They drew the #3 seed and faced off against the 102 point, #6 seed New Jersey Devils.
The series was competitive, Florida was in no way a bad team. Up 3-2 in the series Florida held all the cards. Game 6 in Jersey heads to OT, the first game in the series to do so.
So anyways we’re off to Game 7 in Florida. Once again the game heads to over time and the Panthers…. Survive! This could be the TSN Turning Point! Adam Henrique silences the crowd 3:47 in to OT2.
Never trust a team that has 12+ Loser Points, they are a deceptive group of teams they are.
I think that the Canucks now have the organizational alignment and the on-ice talent to begin year one of a steady rise in the ranks. Flames are a mixed bag of older players and are likely on the way down. And the Preds are just beginning to reconceptualize who they are. Actually I could see them possibly outperforming their depth, but the near future seems hazy.
The preds have a lot of young forwards who had great streches last year Novak, glass, parssinen, evangelista, tomisino if at least one or two of them can take another step next year I think nashville gets in, novak was actually 20th in the league in points per 60 mins, was higher than guys like crosby, mathews
I'm hoping the Canucks get there. If they get a full season out of Demko they should be in the running. Who knows how many more wins they would have gotten last season if they'd had another twenty-five starts from Demko. They only needed six.
Preds for sure. Calgary could easily make the playoffs if they hustle in the coming season. As to the hapless, poorly run, working from within a siege mentality, poorly coached, horrible owners…nah, they are not going anywhere this year. Now their farm team, a way different story. Rooting for them all the way.
Why are you saying "buoyed" like an American yokel? "Buoyant", "Buoyancy", "Buoyed", "Buoy" – it's all the same root word and it's all pronounced the same way. No one in the world says "boo-ee-an-cee" or "Boo-ee-ant".