Although, if there was a year the Jets wanted to suck, it would probably be this one. They could have a 1-2 punch of McDavid/Eichel and Scheifele up the middle.
More league stuff than Devils news, but I have this feeling that there are a quite a few teams that wanna tank this year.
Not like 83-84 Pens style, but just enough to where they make no moves for the better and just ice a bad team. I think there's a few teams who are fine with sucking for McDavid and Eichel.
Winnipeg could very well be one of those teams. Maybe they wanna play Pavelec 70 games and hope he doesn't make any adjustments to his game.
I think Calgary and Buffalo are without a doubt in the sweepstakes, Edmonton too. Ottawa is another team that I think is all aboard for a craptastic season. They'd make it extremely obvious if they were to trade Bobby Ryan out of there.
I think Vancouver's recent fire sale will put them in there too, despite the Miller signing. If they hadn't dealt all those guys for a bunch of crap, I wouldn't think they were going for the sweepstakes this year.
Florida seems like they're close to being in on it too, but they made minor improvements and Luongo will keep them in enough games where they might miss out. They didn't get any worse at all, but I don't think they got too much better.