Predict your final four in the year 2028-29

[Dakinjor]

ill do you one better ill name the best player in the world in 2058, slava voynov jr

 

[Wry n Ginger]

We're at a lull until the cup finals start. Nothing else is happening so what the hell. Pick your Conference finalists in five years

West:
Minnesota: I just see them retooling on the fly. Wallstedt should be a legit 1, and they have the young talent in Yurok and Rossi and Boldy not to mention KK will only be 32.
Vancouver Canucks: Dunno, they just seem like they have a team that will age well. Hughes and EP40 will still be under 30, They have some nice prospects and Demko/Sivlovs is still a good young combination

East:
Montreal: I think they've done a nice job stockpiling talent at all the right positions and if Fowler can be a legit 1 then good on them, Caufield, Slaf and Suzuki still in their mid to late 20s and they have some great D-prospects in the system who should be core pieces in 5 years (Hutson, Rein, Mallioux,
New Jersey: Great mix already and 5 years of seasoning for the super young kids like Mercer, Hughes and Nemec will be like Colorado acouple years back. Goaltending is always gonna be an issue until it isn't, but at worst, Shmid, Daws, Brennan couple be at least serviceable and still under the age of 30.

In five years?



No...that's just stupid talk...stop.

Everyone stop being morons please. There is no valid excuse for trying to predict rosters and results that many years from now.


Go find a porn site or something until July 1st or the draft or....I dunno...just stahp...

 

[CanadienShark]

San Jose slaughtering Chicago. And Vegas enroute as an added bonus.

Montreal demolishing NYR. Taking down Boston and Toronto on the way.

You're welcome, HF. I'm just here to help.

 

[CanadienShark]

Montréal - Détroit
Edmõnton - Cölorado

FTFY.

 

[MNRube]

Really like what Anaheim has going. Carlsson, McTavish, Gauthier, Mintyukov & Silayev could be a ridiculous core

 

[Crosby2010]

Chicago wins the Cup in 2029.

Okay, full disclosure, I have no idea. Just guessing that by then even a semi-competent GM will be smart enough to build the blocks around Bedard. If the Hawks won a Cup in 2010 three years after getting the 1st overall pick, then why not the current Hawks 6 years after?

 

[Our Lady Peace]

East: Detroit Red Wings / New Jersey Devils
West: Utah Utahs / Anaheim Mighty Ducks

 

[ORRFForever]

Anaheim, Buffalo, Dallas, Ottawa

 

[Thechozen1]

Avalanche
Canucks
Devils
Red Wings

 

[VaporTrail]

East: Quebec vs Hartford
West: Kansas City vs Houston

 

[CascadiaPuck]

Utah
Chicago
NYR
Montreal

Total shots in the dark.

I mean no disrespect with this, but it’s weird to see some people picking the Oilers. Assuming they keep McDavid and Draisaitl, those guys will be in their early 30s by then. I’m sure they’ll be good, but their peak is now and I don’t see shocking levels of young talent with them.

(FWIW: wouldn’t pick the Canucks either. JT Miller is unlikely to be who he is by then and I wonder what that’ll mean for the team.)

 

[Bixby Snyder]

Utah
Dallas
Columbus
Nashville

 

[TheBeard]

Utah
Chicago
NYR
Montreal

Total shots in the dark.

I mean no disrespect with this, but it’s weird to see some people picking the Oilers. Assuming they keep McDavid and Draisaitl, those guys will be in their early 30s by then. I’m sure they’ll be good, but their peak is now and I don’t see shocking levels of young talent with them.

(FWIW: wouldn’t pick the Canucks either. JT Miller is unlikely to be who he is by then and I wonder what that’ll mean for the team.)

I mean what will the Rangers have? Igor will be 34, Planarian will be late 30s, even Fox will be early 30s.

 

[centipede2233]

Utah, NJ, Detroit and Anaheim

I think Detroit will land drasaitl or mcdavid or both.

 

[CascadiaPuck]

I mean what will the Rangers have? Igor will be 34, Planarian will be late 30s, even Fox will be early 30s.

Picked the Rangers because I feel like the city at some point will be the most likely place to draw key free agents to make a great team. Again though: an absolute shot in the dark.

 

[Norwegianoiler]

Houston Gunslingers
Atlanta Door-Revolvers
San Diego Supergulls
San Antonio The-other-kind-of-Rangers

But certainly not Quebec.

 

[BlueSeal]

Season cancelled due to COVID 2: Electric Boogaloo!

 

[McShogun99]

Utah-Houston
Quebec-Hamilton

Change Quebec-Hamilton to Atlanta-Jacksonville and I'd agree with you.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Anaheim, Chicago, Montreal, Atlanta

 

[tfwnogf]

Toronto - after trading mitch marner, and winning their 3rd cup in a row, they are the favourites to take it again in 2029
New York Rangers - somehow have made the conference final every year and lost
Chicago - 80 goal scorer Connor Bedard couldn't do it without his partner in crime mitch marner
Vegas - mark stone on ltir (this time he got a nasty paper cut on his pinky, well so he says anyway) allows them to add all 3 hughes brothers and a super ancient crosby

 

[adsfan]

West:
Dallas:
Prime Johnston, Stankoven, Bourque, Harley, Bichsel
Heiskanen, Robertson, Hintz, Oettinger etc all not terribly old

Utah:
I really like their prospects and what they're building there. Give them 5 years, I think they could make it

HM: Colorado. MacKinnon + Makar will still be around

East:
Buffalo: At some point all these high end draft picks are really gonna add up
New Jersey

HM: Ottawa

Dallas will get knocked out by Nashville.

Just like the Admirals knocked out the Texas Stars two years in a row in the AHL.

 

[adsfan]

Chicago wins the Cup in 2029.

Okay, full disclosure, I have no idea. Just guessing that by then even a semi-competent GM will be smart enough to build the blocks around Bedard. If the Hawks won a Cup in 2010 three years after getting the 1st overall pick, then why not the current Hawks 6 years after?

Chicago is relegated to the AHL to make room for team #36; the Memphis Riverboat Gamblers.

Something about past "misdeeds".

 

[jimmysheva]

Edmonton / Colorado / Toronto / New Jersey