Central Standings - Poll 1

[Styles]

Vote for who you think will be first in points in the Central division for the 2024-2025 season. All potential lines are per daily faceoff to give a bit of a visual on what teams might look like opening night. The polls will be open for two days.

Last Seasons Standings
Dallas Stars (113)
Winnipeg Jets (110)
Colorado Avalanche (107)
Nashville Predators (99)
St. Louis Blues (92)
Minnesota Wild (87)
Arizona Coyotes (77)
Chicago Blackhawks (52)



Chicago Blackhawks Lines

Bertuzzi-Bedard-Teravainen
Hall-Athanasiou-Kurashev
Foligno-Dickinson-Mikheyev
Reichel-Donato-Smith

Vlasic-Jones
Korchinski-Murphy
Martinez-Brodie

Mrazek
Brossiot



Colorado Avalanche Lines

Drouin-MacKinnon-Rantanen
Lehkonen-Mittelstadt-Kovalenko
Wood-Colton-O'Connor
Kelly-Wagner-Kiviranta

Toews-Makar
Girard-Manson
Brannstrom-Kylington

Georgiev
Annunen



Dallas Stars Lines

Robertson-Hintz-Seguin
Benn-Johnston-Stankover
Marchment-Bourque-Duchene
Dadonov-Steel-Blackwell

Harley-Heiskanen
Lindell-Lyubushkin
Smith-Dumba

Oettinger
DeSmith



Minnesota Wild Lines

Kaprisov-Rossi-Zuccarello
Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy
Foligno-Khusnutdinov-Hartman
Lauko-Gaudreau-Trenin

Brodin-Faber
Middleton-Spurgeon
Chisholm-Bogosian

Gustavsson
Fleury



Nashville Predators Lines

Forsberg-O'Reilly-Nyquist
Stamkos-Novak-Marchessault
Jankowski-Sissons-Evangelista
Smith-McCarron-Parssinen

Skjei-Josi
Lauzon-Carrier
Stastney-Schenn

Saros
Wedgewood



St. Louis Blues Lines

Neighbours-Thomas-Kyrou
Saad-Buchnevich-Schenn
Topopchenko-Faksa-Texier
Joseph-Sundqvist-Kapanen

Leddy-Parayko
Perunovich-Faulk
Suter-Kessel

Binnington
Hofer



Utah Hockey Club Lines

Keller-Hayton-Schmaltz
Crouse-Cooley-Guenther
Maccelli-Bjugstad-Doan
Kerfoot-McBain-Stenlund

Sergachev-Durzi
Valimaki-Marino
Cole-Kesselring

Ingram
Vejmelka



Winnipeg Jets Lines

Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi
Ehlers-Namestnikov-Perfetti
Niederreiter-Lowry-Appleton
Barron-Gustafsson-Iafallo

Morrissey-Demelo
Samberg-Pionk
Miller-Stanley

Hellebuyck
Kahkonen







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[Mrfenn92]

Stars

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Went with the Stars, but they had a bad offseason. Took a step back on defense for sure.

In general, I think the central overall has gotten tighter. Top teams got worse, bottom teams got better.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Went with the Stars, but they had a bad offseason. Took a step back on defense for sure.

In general, I think the central overall has gotten tighter. Top teams got worse, bottom teams got better.

They only had Tanev for 19 games last season, and were still the best team in the division before they got him. They also lost Pavelski, but he was a shell of his former self. Suter, Hakanpaa, Faksa, aren't really big losses.

Harley will be better, a full year of Stankhoven, Johnston will get better.

I dont see much of a drop off if any.

 

[TheFridge]

Dallas has the best balance of offense, defense and goaltending. Went with them.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Dallas and it's not close IMO. Winnepeg overachieved last year with Helle winning the Vezina, and they've lost guys like Dillon and are trying to move Ehlers. COL has Nuke in substance abuse LTIR until November, and overall they're top heavy as well. Only team that significantly improved was NASH. Going to be a dogfight to make the play-off's in the Central, and wouldn't surprise me if there are 5 Central teams making the P/O's in the West.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Bunch of mid teams in the central this year. Only Dallas looks legit on paper. Not all that high on Winnipeg or Minny, Nashville signed some good players who are at the point of potential regression, and Colorado has had huge holes develop up front with Landeskog's injury and Nuke's struggles with addiction.

Utah, St. Louis, and the Hawks are gonna be bad. Hawks and Utah are at least on a possible upswing, Blues are gonna be in that tier of teams that drafts 8-14 every year with no playoffs; the most unenviable of positions to be in in the NHL. Not good enough to draft a game breaker, not good enough for the post-season.

 

[Hattrick Kane]

Bunch of mid teams in the central this year. Only Dallas looks legit on paper. Not all that high on Winnipeg or Minny, Nashville signed some good players who are at the point of potential regression, and Colorado has had huge holes develop up front with Landeskog's injury and Nuke's struggles with addiction.

Utah, St. Louis, and the Hawks are gonna be bad. Hawks and Utah are at least on a possible upswing, Blues are gonna be in that tier of teams that drafts 8-14 every year with no playoffs; the most unenviable of positions to be in in the NHL. Not good enough to draft a game breaker, not good enough for the post-season.

I think Utah will surprise. They had that 20 game slide mid season, but other than that, they looked pretty good with an AHL defense they’ve since upgraded. That Guenther-Cooley-Doan line is gonna be disgusting.

St. Louis though, hard agree. And their board is writing in the most mediocre prospects into their almost immediate future lineup. They’re going to be super pissed about Dvorsky especially. I watched him lots in Sudbury this year, he ain’t that good.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Stars have so many young pieces that are just gonna get better.

 

[Pertti]

Avalanche, they got better on trade dead line getting away last off season mistakes and has next season to built team spirit.

 

[EddieTheEagle]

1. Dallas Stars
2. Colorado Avalanche
3. Nashville Predators
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4. Winnipeg Jets
5. Minnesota Wild
6. Utah Hockey Club
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7. St. Louis Blues
8. Chicago Blackhawks

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Stars

 

[EmeticDonut]

Chicago, baby! All the way to the Cup! The decade long dynasty starts now!

 

[Malaka]

They only had Tanev for 19 games last season, and were still the best team in the division before they got him. They also lost Pavelski, but he was a shell of his former self. Suter, Hakanpaa, Faksa, aren't really big losses.

Harley will be better, a full year of Stankhoven, Johnston will get better.

I dont see much of a drop off if any.

Mr. Stevens Point’s very own had nearly 70 points last year and played a full 82 games at 16.5 ATOI per game which is around 2nd line minutes but still left the league in the top ~64 point producers or top 90 per 60

They have the younger talent to make up for it but damn that does put a hole in your team nevermind the leadership. Hawks get him back in 2019 and it changes things honestly.