The Atlantic: NHL’s Okay-est division

[Blowfish]

As a bruin fan I'm very worried. F ugly! This may be the year Sens and Sabres bounce one or more the bruins leafs or bolts. Panthers gearing up for another cup.

 

[hangman005]

Late November is when I start caring about standings whatsoever.

Does anyone really think the Canucks will finish 5th and Oilers will finish 7th in the Pacific? Or the Avs will finish 6th in the Central? The current Atlantic standings right now mean nothing.

No... but we can always dream

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Good news is the Wings have played like garbage and are 4-3, usually when they are garbage it's more like 1-5-1 or 0-6-1.

Bad news they have played like shit.

I'm also not too bothered about two losses being from the Rangers who have been killing everyone.

 

[dirtydanglez]

We expecting Calgary to make a run this year? Or is it to early to jump to just that specific conclusion?

unless they change conferences i dont see how they could do that.

 

[benfranklin]

It does kindof suck. Boston has to regress at some point. Tor will accept one day that this core isnt doing it and they need actual D and G. Florida is legit. Ill give Ott the maybe because their young guys have to put it together eventually. Everyone else sucks

 

[Mad Dog Tannen]

Crazy that’s your takeaway in a post about 8 different teams. Not everything is a personal attack on the leafs

I thought the exact same thing. Weird response and take away, but leaf fans are so used to getting dumped on they look for it everywhere even if it doesn’t exist.

The only thing I was trying to comment (and my OP was def too long and rambly) was this:

“Going into the season, the Atlantic div looked like the scariest division. So far it’s looked absolutely meh”.

Like others have said, still early. But right now the mehs are off the charts.

As far as point totals being low because of inter division cannibalism of points - Atlantic as a whole has played the least amount of games within the div. More games vs metro and the west.

 

[Mad Dog Tannen]

This division gets more “mid” with each passing day. 2 pt spread from 2nd to 8th. Everyone’s 4-4-1. lol. They all almost have identical goals for…..so weird.

 

[SnowblindNYR]

aside from florida, nyr, and nj the entire east doesn't look good. the heavy weights are in the west again.

Carolina? I feel like they've looked better than NJ.

 

[dirtydanglez]

Carolina? I feel like they've looked better than NJ.

maybe. they lost a lot of talent in the offseason though

 

[PuckPuckGoose]

Any objective person looking at Toronto realized they were a weaker team this season than last season. Plus the Leafs suffer chronically from being soft, fragile and heartless.

They played two seasons over their heads. Last season and this current one is simply reversion to mediocrity...a regression to normalcy.

You are anything but objective. I see you bring up Toronto in every thread you possibly can, whether they're on topic or not. It's obsessive behavior.

 

[Pavels Dog]

This division gets more “mid” with each passing day. 2 pt spread from 2nd to 8th. Everyone’s 4-4-1. lol. They all almost have identical goals for…..so weird.

Not sure why people don't understand that the more competitive teams are the more points get spread out.
Boston beat Montreal and Toronto
Buffalo beat Detroit and Florida
Ottawa beat Tampa and Florida
Montreal beat Ottawa and Toronto

These teams are taking points from eachother. Other divisions look less "mid" because they have punching bags like Philly, Chicago, San Jose etc.