Who are your Pre-season Cup Favorites?

[Beukeboom Fan]

Pre-season Cup Favorites

1. Florida
2. Edmonton
3. Rangers
4. Dallas
5. Carolina
6. New Jersey
7. Tampa
8. Vegas

HM: Colorado, Vancouver, Boston

Carolina is an interesting choice in your top 5. Losing Skjei, Pesce, and Teraivanen and replacing them with Ghostibehere, Walker, and Roslovic is a pretty significant downgrade. I have faith in RBA, but he's got his work cut out for him this year.

 

[thaman8765678]

Edmonton's 3rd straight pre-season cup favorite. Dynasty!

The perennial pre season Stanley Cup Champs! A yearly tradition like no other.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

The perennial pre season Stanley Cup Champs! A yearly tradition like no other.

The torch has been passed from Toronto to Edmonton!

I don’t see a clear favourite at this point.
I’d go:
Florida
Dallas
Vegas
Edmonton
Rangers
Carolina
Colorado
Vancouver

 

[Coffey]

The torch has been passed from Toronto to Edmonton!

Well at least one team reached the finals.

 

[PAZ]

Carolina is an interesting choice in your top 5. Losing Skjei, Pesce, and Teraivanen and replacing them with Ghostibehere, Walker, and Roslovic is a pretty significant downgrade. I have faith in RBA, but he's got his work cut out for him this year.

I agree they're downgrades, but Carolina has the assets to fill any holes and some young talent that could potentially surprise. Honestly, 5-10 is basically the same tier imo but Carolina has gone deep the past few years.

 

[sensfan4lifee]

1 - Florida
2 - Vancouver
3 - Edmonton
4 - Dallas
5 - Tampa
6 - Boston
7 - Nashville
8 - Colorado

Are my top contenders

 

[benfranklin]

West
Avs (if healthy coughcough Landy and Nuke)
Stars
Knights

East
Panthers
Rangers

 

[Our Lady Peace]

1. Oilers
2. Stars
3. Hurricanes
4. Rangers
5. Canucks
6. Panthers (they have played a lot of hockey the past 2 seasons and might be destined for an early exit)
7. Avalanche
8. Maple Leafs

 

[SupremeTeam16]

I’m just looking forward to the endless and unrelenting talk about the Edmonton Oilers all season long and how much that’s going to drive a lot of people up the wall.

Hockey media and the league is going to be force feeding fans the Edmonton Oilers so get used to it.

 

[Face Of Bear]

lots of people here havent realized Caronlina took a huge step back and might not even be a playoff team if we're being honest.

 

[Jason316]

1. Colorado
2. Edmonton
3. Vancouver
4. New Jersey
5. Ny Rangers

6. Florida
7. Nashville
8. Boston
9. Carolina
10. Vegas

 

[catters078]

Top tier Cup contenders.

Oilers
Panthers
Canucks
Avs

Tier below, can win cup (but would need health to key players plus probably a deadline acquisition)

Leafs
Bruins
Devils
Stars
Vegas

Tier 3, good teams but would need some charm to go on a deep run

Rangers
Preds
Lightning

 

[Shroud of Orrin]

1. Stars
2. Edmonton
3. Vegas
4. Florida
5. Boston
6. Nashville
7. Tampa
8. Toronto
9. Colorado
10. New Jersey

 

[PolishPrince21]

Maybe we lose to the cup champs for the 4th year in a row.
Gotta be a record.

that would probably be the leafs to the habs back in the day

 

[SoupNazi]

This is why we need a puke reaction emoji.

You watch your mouth or @hangman005 will gift you a lifetime subscription to his OnlyFans.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

The perennial pre season Stanley Cup Champs! A yearly tradition like no other.

At least they get talked about. Who is starting a conversation in the hockey world with hey let's talk about the Calgary flames.

 

[NVious]

Toronto is due

#GoLeafsGo

 

[Xirik]

Definitely not the Devils, I expect them to be at the bottom.

 

[Eyeseeing]

Have to go with Florida.

 

[RI.B FAN]

Definitely not the Devils, I expect them to be at the bottom.

I see Devils as a contender

 

[MNRube]

Nashville with Skjei as their 2D and a 35 year old Josi as their 1D strikes me as a pretender. Clear playoff team but a move or two away still. They do have a hell of a trade chip in Askarov …

 

[Soundgarden]

Nashville with Skjei as their 2D and a 35 year old Josi as their 1D strikes me as a pretender. Clear playoff team but a move or two away still. They do have a hell of a trade chip in Askarov …

Josi is 35...and over a ppg and 2nd in Norris votes like two weeks ago.

 

[MNRube]

Josi is 35...and over a ppg and 2nd in Norris votes like two weeks ago.

Well aware of this. But he’s at an age where things can go south quickly. As are a few other major pieces

 

[CloudYeller]

Dallas and then a bunch of losers*, same as every year. If forced to name some...

2. Edmonton. After the dumpster fire start to last year, changing coaches, mass hysteria, to come from that and end up where they did just shows how much fight this team has in it.
3. Las Vegas. Hate the shenanigans, recognize the talent.
4. Florida. Because I will never admit that any team with a Tkachuk is actually good. Probably should be 2, but I don't even know what a Tkachuk is. Is it some sort of a bus or something? I dunno. Sounds fake.
5. Carolina. Perennial "should make the finals" team for a reason.
6. Toronto. Because I can't get enough Canadian heartbreak but also can't wait to see the bender you bastards go on when any of the teams win a Cup again. Rivers may be set on fire.
7. Rangers. As long as they can continue getting healthy, DeGrom is fire when he returns, Jung keeps being Jung, they still have much of th... oh, wait, wrong Rangers...
7. New York Rangers. They'd probably be better if their Lurch could figure out how to play and stop wasting time taking penalties but whatever.
8. Nashville. The Music City Piss Kitties are the dark yellow horse.



*Definition of loser ignores win/loss records and instead relies on a binary logic test of whether or not a team is the Dallas Stars. If Dallas Stars then NOT loser. If NOT Dallas Stars then loser.

 

[Akrapovince]

If Edmonton dodges Dallas/Colorado/Vegas until the Western Conference Finals they win the cup.