2025 NHL Draft: Lose a ton for Porter Martone

[coooldude]

Last I checked, we were top or near the top of league at scoring with the goalie pulled. For everyone referring to what our record might be if we won more in OT/SO, you should do the same exercise for if the puck luck went the other way.

We are still a bottom 5 team and probably a bottom 3 team. However if Celebrini and Russian Granny Smith line keep playing as well as they are, we may not be the worst team.

 

[Juxtaposer]

Last I checked, we were top or near the top of league at scoring with the goalie pulled. For everyone referring to what our record might be if we won more in OT/SO, you should do the same exercise for if the puck luck went the other way.

We are still a bottom 5 team and probably a bottom 3 team. However if Celebrini and Russian Granny Smith line keep playing as well as they are, we may not be the worst team.

What we have going for us is that even if Anaheim is worse than us, Dostal is excellent and should win them a bunch of games they don't deserve to be in.

I don't think anyone but Chicago ends up worse than us because of that.

 

[OverTheLine]

We just gotta lose enough to get top four and I'm happy. I want Schaefer the most for positional need, but honestly I feel any of him and Hagens/Martone/Misa could end up having the best career. Although I think Schaefer and Hagens feel the most likely of the batch I would be over the moon with Martone or Misa.

After this draft, we probably need to get the hell out of the basement before any stench of losing culture starts to stick to the kids.

 

[sampler]

What we have going for us is that even if Anaheim is worse than us, Dostal is excellent and should win them a bunch of games they don't deserve to be in.

I don't think anyone but Chicago ends up worse than us because of that.

I’d take that bet. We had a horrific start, but really not bad of late. Why does everyone seem to think the sharks are such bottom feeders? 9-6-3, and pretty much every game very close. Does that really seem like a bottom feeder? I get that the level of competition is not the highest but it’s not like they are getting pure luck and the kids are improving.

 

[weastern bias]

I’d take that bet.

 

[DG93]

What we have going for us is that even if Anaheim is worse than us, Dostal is excellent and should win them a bunch of games they don't deserve to be in.

I don't think anyone but Chicago ends up worse than us because of that.

Chicago really does have 2024-2025 Sharks vibes, especially with Nazar and Korchinski moving backwards yikes

 

[coooldude]

Holy moly, I just paid closer attention when looking at the December schedule. I don't think anyone should be worried about us being close to a wildcard on 1/1.

 

[Lebanezer]

Holy moly, I just paid closer attention when looking at the December schedule. I don't think anyone should be worried about us being close to a wildcard on 1/1.

That's what we all think, but it's gonna go something like this:

Washington: Win
Tampa: Win
Florida: Loss
Carolina: Loss
St. Louis: Win
Utah: Win
Winnipeg: Loss
Colorado: Win
Edmonton: Loss
Vancouver: Win
Vegas: Loss
Calgary: Win
Philadelphia: Win

 

[vortexy]

Washington: Loss
Tampa: Loss
Florida: Loss
Carolina: Loss
St. Louis: Loss?
Utah: Win?
Winnipeg: Loss
Colorado: Loss
Edmonton: Loss
Vancouver: Loss
Vegas: Loss
Calgary: Win
Philadelphia: Win

Looks good to me sign me up for that top 4 pick! Our wins have mostly been versus teams that are not Stanley cup contenders other than New Jersey and that's also a game where we did not deserve to win at all (Blackwood carry). Don't get me wrong the games we have had have been very fun and exciting but I am expecting the team to have a very rough month which is absolutely FINE, 9 out of the 13 games are against true Stanley cup contenders.

In terms of the standings I am quite confident we will be bottom 3, I want bottom 2 though to guarantee a top 4 pick. I am only mainly concerned about Chicago and Montreal being lower than us when all is said and done.

 

[coooldude]

Washington: Loss
Tampa: Loss
Florida: Loss
Carolina: Loss
St. Louis: Loss?
Utah: Win?
Winnipeg: Loss
Colorado: Loss
Edmonton: Loss
Vancouver: Loss
Vegas: Loss
Calgary: Win
Philadelphia: Win

Looks good to me sign me up for that top 4 pick! Our wins have mostly been versus teams that are not Stanley cup contenders other than New Jersey and that's also a game where we did not deserve to win at all (Blackwood carry). Don't get me wrong the games we have had have been very fun and exciting but I am expecting the team to have a very rough month which is absolutely FINE, 9 out of the 13 games are against true Stanley cup contenders.

In terms of the standings I am quite confident we will be bottom 3, I want bottom 2 though to guarantee a top 4 pick. I am only mainly concerned about Chicago and Montreal being lower than us when all is said and done.

You've got us going 3-10 (0.230) for 6 points. It's dire but possible.

If we hold serve on our points% of 0.426 we should get 11 points on the trip (5-7-1). Beat every non-playoff team (UTA, STL, COL) and steal 2 games out of the remaining 10, gets us to 5. That would be a pretty solid performance.

Our last 13 games, we played 5 playoff teams and went 2-3 (0.400) - MIN, NJD, NYR, DAL, LAK. We got outplayed in all of those games but stole 2. So assuming we keep a similar pace to the last 13, we would project to win 4 of 10 vs. playoff teams and go 3-2-3 pace (0.563) against everyone else in 3 games. Which is... 12-13 points. 6-6-1 or 5-5-3 at best. This would be an incredible performance.

My guess is we find a way to 4 wins and 2 OTL's, or 5 wins. 10 points out of possible 26 = 0.385 and pacing between MTL and CHI's current rate. We'll see.