I'll be optimistic and say they are a wild card team. Right now, I see the standings shaking out something like this:
Central:
Stars
Avalanche
Wild
Pacific:
Golden Knights
Oilers
Kraken/Kings
I have the bottom of the standings like this:
Coyotes
Blackhawks
Ducks
Sharks
That leaves the following fighting for the last two Wild Card spots:
Kraken/Kings
Flames
Predators
Blues
Jets
Canucks
Kraken are just a solid team. Good depth throughout the line-up but lacking a true gamebreaker. The biggest factor for their continued success will be if Beniers takes another step or has a bit of a sophomore slump.
I am really down on the Kings. While they certainly added a great talent in Dubois, but gave up quite a bit of scoring depth to do it, and retained Gavrikov. The main problem is their goaltending tandem of Copley and Talbot is extremely suspect. The line-up is strong but if that goaltending goes the way I think, they may end up treading water until they can come up with a better solution.
Flames should have a giant asterisk as I don't think the roster they have now is how they'll start the season. One of the first things Conroy said was he felt it was a mistake going into Gaudreau's last season without a clear answer. Lindholm, Backlund, Hanifin, Tanev, Zadorov, and Kylington are all upcoming UFAs. On top of them, their top-6 is significantly weaker without Toffoli. This is a team that needs a lot of players to perform the exact opposite as they did last season.
Not quite sure what Trotz's plan is for the Predators. He did a good job of clearing out the cruft and improving the culture but O'Reilly and Schenn have lost several steps and are expected to play above what they are capable of. I have 3 of the top-6 wingers as Tomasino, Evangelista, and Nyquist. One step back for Josi and Saros and this team is in complete collapse.
The Blues are nearly the exact same as last season. They've added Hayes and will have full seasons of Vrana, Blais, and Kapanene but the defence is identical. Actually that's not fair, the defence is another year older. That's four players that need to stop regression and at least two of them will need to have bounce-back seasons. To make matters worse, there's no safety net behind Binnington. It's a team where the top-line needs to carry the vast majority of the production and hope the rest can tread water.
I don't f***ing know about the Jets, man. Will Scheifele and Hellebuyck start the season on the team? Traded early on? Not traded? Be mopey? Beyond that, can this team be healthy? How will Iafallo and Vilardi fit in? Every season I look at the Jets and figure they are roughly a wild card team. This is the first season in a while that they look quite different and I still have come to the same conclusion. I'd probably have them just on the outside looking in and a lot depends on what they do with Scheifele and Hellebuyck.
A lot of these question are the same for the Canucks. Health, production, bounce-back seasons, how will new players fit in, etc. I think there's an outside change of grabbing the 3rd pacific spot but a lot more needs to go right over the course of the entire season to make that happen. So, really, it comes down to 6 teams fighting for two spots.