Preseason Predictions Thread 22-23

[Predsanddead24]

With the season finally upon us figured I'd throw up a thread for people to make their preseason predictions. Here are some of mine:

Regular Season Finish: 2nd Central (108 points)
Playoff Finish: Lose 2nd Round (to Avs)
Goals Leader: Forsberg
Points Leader: Josi

Regular Season Champs:
Central: Avalanche
Pacific: Oilers
Metro: Penguins
Atlantic: Leafs

Award Winners:
Hart: McDavid
Rocket: Matthews
Norris: Makar
Vezina: Saros
Calder: Beniers

Stanley Cup Final: Hurricanes over Flames

Bold Predictions:
Cody Glass puts up 20+ goals and 60+ points
Kraken make the playoffs
Panthers miss the playoffs

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[Scoresberg]

Reg. season finish: 3rd in Central
Playoff finish: 2nd round exit
Goals leader: Forsberg
Points leader: Josi

Reg. season champs:
Central: Avs
Pacific: Oilers
Metro: Canes
Atlantic: Leafs

Hart: Matthews
Art Ross: McDavid
Rocket: Matthews
Norris: Makar
Vezina: Markström
Calder: Power

SC Final: Leafs over Oilers

Bold Predictions:
Pärssinen ends the year as the 3C.
Sens make the playoffs.
Caps miss the playoffs.

 

[Predsanddead24]

SC Final: Leafs over Oilers

Feel like Leafs winning a playoff round (let alone the Cup) should be under bold predictions.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Dang, I can't take potshots at other peoples' bold predictions unless I first fill out mine, I guess...

Regular Season Finish: 3rd Central (102 points) (I don't know, STL or some surprise has to sneak ahead of us somehow)
Playoff Finish: Lose 2nd Round (to Avs)
Goals Leader: Forsberg
Points Leader: Josi

Regular Season Champs:
Central: Avalanche
Pacific: Oilers
Metro: Carolina
Atlantic: Ugh

Award Winners:
Hart: McDavid
Rocket: Matthews
Norris: Makar
Vezina: Shesterkin
Calder: Beniers, Johnson, McTavish, who knows

Stanley Cup Final: Hurricanes over Oilers

Bold Predictions:
From us...
- Jeannot scores 30 goals
- Carrier gets > 40 pts (which makes us hate him!?)
- Lankinen makes us want to re-sign him
Not bold enough? Sorry.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Cody Glass puts up 20+ goals and 60+ points

Wow, I'd be happy with 9g, 20a from him. He took a ton of shots (for a change) in the AHL last year, and still only got 14g. 20+ in the NHL is... very bold indeed!

 

[Predsanddead24]

Wow, I'd be happy with 9g, 20a from him. He took a ton of shots (for a change) in the AHL last year, and still only got 14g. 20+ in the NHL is... very bold indeed!

I mean I'll be happy if he sticks in the lineup all season as a solid contributor too, but it's not really a bold prediction if it's likely to happen!

 

[ShagDaddy]

Reg. season finish: 3rd in Central
Playoff finish: 2nd round exit
Goals leader: Duchene
Points leader: Josi

Bold predictions:
Tanner Jeannot gets 30+ goals
Forsberg and Duchene both score 40+ goals

 

[AintLifeGrand]

Reg. season finish: 3rd in Central
Playoff finish: 3rd round exit
Goals leader: Jeannot
Points leader: Josi

Bold predictions:
Tanner Jeannot gets 40+ goals
Glass hits 50 pts

 

[adsfan]

Reg. season finish: 3rd in Central, 100 points
Playoff finish: 2nd round exit
Goals leader: Jeannot
Points leader: Josi

Division Champs: Colorado

Bold predictions:
Tanner Jeannot gets 30+ goals

Not so bold prediction:
Glass with 10 goals and 30 points.

 

[jumb0]

Regular Season Finish: WC 1
Playoff Finish: Lose 2nd Round
Goals Leader: Forsberg
Points Leader: Josi

Regular Season Champs:
Central: Avalanche
Pacific: Oilers
Metro: Rangers
Atlantic: Lightning

Award Winners:
Hart: McDavid
Rocket: Draisaitl
Norris: Josi
Vezina: Vasilevskiy
Calder: Power

Stanley Cup Final: Avalanche over Hurricanes

Bold Predictions:
Poile makes a splash at the deadline
Jeannot gets 30 goals

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Jeannot scoring 30 goals doesn't seem all that bold anymore...

Maybe it is bolder these days to predict regressions for some of these guys!

 

[Predsanddead24]

Jeannot scoring 30 goals doesn't seem all that bold anymore...

Maybe it is bolder these days to predict regressions for some of these guys!

Yeah if he gets more PP time this season seems pretty reasonable he could net six more goals.

 

[jumb0]

Ok fine....Jeannot DOESNT get 30

 

[Predsanddead24]

Also apparently a bold prediction is someone other than Josi leads the team in points

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I don't really want to be the guy who is cynical/evil enough to actually make negative/regressive bold predictions about our team. But some little voice in the back of my head reminds me that Duchene was truly bad/dumb for us at first, that Granlund was AWOL, that McDonagh was given away by his last team, that Jeannot was never any kind of prospect whatsoever in terms of pedigree until he mysteriously boot-strapped himself into the NHL... it wouldn't be impossible for somebody to come up with bold/evil predictions, I suppose. But I wouldn't actually do it.

 

[herzausstein]

Goals predictions
40+ duchene, forsberg
30+ jeannot
20+ nino, tolvanen, tomasino
10+ sissons, trenin, johansen, granlund, glass

 

[LCPreds]

We will not have a 40 goal scorer.

 

[Predsanddead24]

I'll go with another bold one:

Trenin scores more goals than Jeannot

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I'll go with another bold one:

Trenin scores more goals than Jeannot

Hm, well I'm not sure if it would be totally impossible if Trenin had endeared himself to the organization and signed a long-term team-friendly contract and the whole 3rd line was being kept intact with no PP time, and... Jeannot missed 20-40 games with an injury...

But ok, bold or... ?

And I really like Trenin a lot.

 

[Predsanddead24]

Hm, well I'm not sure if it would be totally impossible if Trenin had endeared himself to the organization and signed a long-term team-friendly contract and the whole 3rd line was being kept intact with no PP time, and... Jeannot missed 20-40 games with an injury...

But ok, bold or... ?

And I really like Trenin a lot.

I'd say this is less crazy than my Glass bold prediction. If we combine regular season and playoffs Trenin had 20 goals to Jeannot's 24 goals so he wasn't that too far behind. Trenin also had a much lower shooting percentage so you would think that may be a bit more sustainable.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I'd say this is less crazy than my Glass bold prediction. If we combine regular season and playoffs Trenin had 20 goals to Jeannot's 24 goals so he wasn't that too far behind. Trenin also had a much lower shooting percentage so you would think that may be a bit more sustainable.

Well, if you want to stack it against your Glass prediction... ok! I will actually be interested in seeing how the Trenin-Preds relationship progresses anyway. I really like Trenin and agree that he has a lot of upside still. He was maybe our best player in the playoffs. I can see him scoring 20+ even with somewhat dismal utilization. While being a tank out there. But I also won't be entirely surprised if he gets a little marginalized and sidelined given the seeming relationship issues.

 

[David Singleton]

Related predictions:
• The Predators power play will at least maintain its effectiveness from last year and should exceed it's output due to...
• Jeannot will get a long look as a net-front presence on the PP which will increase his ice time and add 6-8 goals to his overall total (roughly 30 goal season, give or take)...
• The continued effectiveness of the PP will help at least one of Forsberg and Duchene reach the 40 goal plateau again, and both will reach 30 goals.
• Finally, the second PP unit will chip in a bit more this year. There are enough new players (Nino, McDonagh, Glass) or players that should experience year-over-year growth/opportunity (Tomasino, Jeannot, and Tolvanen) that two effective units are possible.

(injuries notwithstanding)

 

[glenngineer]

Fil stays healthy and breaks the 50 goal mark this year.

 

[sparkle twin]

Preds finish 3rd in Central, win the first round and ride that all the way to the Cup.

 

[hido]

I’m going to call mine stupid predictions:
- Saros unfortunately gets injured again. Askarov finishes the season as a Pred.
- We are on the bubble at the trade deadline and this board has way too many posts about trading for Kane (which we don’t do although Poile thinks real hard about it).
- We somehow squeak into the playoffs and get bounced in the 1st, again. This may not be stupid.
- David Poile takes a step back at the end of the season. Senior Emeritus GM or something.
- My season tickets still get a lot more expensive (that’s definitely NOT a stupid prediction)

In reality, I’m very much looking forward to this season.