Your 2024-2025 hot takes

[HockeyVirus]

With the season set to open in a few days with Devils vs Sabres in Europe, it feels right to get all of your hot takes out there now before the real games start. The hotter the better.

I'll start:

1. The Bruins have their playoff spot taken by either the Sabres or Senators and miss for the first time in a while.
2. Utah makes the playoffs
3. Leafs win the cup

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[Sol]

Arizona will get 0 points this year. BOOK it.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Arizona will get 0 points this year. BOOK it.

The Kings will face the Oilers in round 1

 

[Snap]

Kessel signs to a contender and gets another cup.

Dylan Guenther puts up 50 goals, meshes with Cooley who goes 20/60.

Demko wins a Vezina playing through his new found injury.

Woll and Stolarz both get injured long term. Matt Murray carries the Leafs to a playoff spot.

Hot enough?

 

[Bgav]

Sabres make the playoffs. Not sure this is even a hot take - on paper they look pretty good.

 

[Szechwan]

1. The Leafs have their playoff spot taken by either the Sabres or Senators and miss for the first time in a while.
2. Bruins make the playoffs
3. Utah win the cup

 

[BaileyFan]

Hockey Club not only make the playoffs but reach the 3rd round.
Predators miss.
Sabres and Red Wings both get in.

 

[Kryten]

Canucks win the cup

 

[Mr Kot]

Ottawa makes playoffs. One of their biggest weaknesses has been patched. If they can get going out of the gate, they can push someone out I think.

Swayman will be traded. His cost is too high with too much uncertainty. Probably gonna be wrong on this 95% of the time though.

Adam Fox will win Norris this year. He's overlooked often and I think he will take it up a notch this year.

Carolina will drop into wild card territory.

New Jersey will win their division.

Nurse will finally not be infuriating as a player this year.

 

[Strangle]

Bruins finally miss the playoffs (but I also said that last year)

Marner scores over 127 points for a Leaf record in a contract year

Maple Leafs win the cup in 4 straight 7 game series the first time they hit the second season without Boston around

 

[Hacketts]

Xhekaj for Lady Byng

 

[All Mod Cons]

George Parros suspends a guy for a dangerous play on a Leaf.

The Leafs manage to go the whole season without a player getting a suspension above 3 games in length.

 

[Gabrielor]

Sabres end this miserable drought. It's time.

 

[BKarchitect]

Korpisalo starts 40 games and puts up a top 10 GAA and top 10 SV%.

Nashville makes the Cup Finals after adding another top 4 blueliner at the deadline.

Utah has a top 10 offense in GPG.

Timo Meier scores 40 goals and the Devils finish 1st in the East in the regular season.

Stutzle, Byfield and Lafreniere all go over 1.00 PPG.

Makar has a 100+ point season and wins the Norris.

Svechnikov has 45+ goals.

 

[Sheppy]

Korpisalo wins the vezina....

...

?

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Sabres end this miserable drought. It's time.

Nope. Jets and Sabres drought both continue another year at least

 

[AuraSphere]

Could see the devils having a big year

 

[LevelingSolo]

Devils rebound and win the division

Ovie breaks the record

Sabres FINALLY end the drought

Golden Knights miss the playoffs

Derek Lalonde is fired by Xmas and replaced by Quenneville

 

[LemonSauceD]

Jim Benning gets hired.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Kings are an 80 point team and miss the playoffs. Rob Blake is fired and Bergevin takes over.
In before this is actually a reasonable take.

Canucks win the cup

Stealing this for future use.

 

[TheGroceryStick]

With the season set to open in a few days with Devils vs Sabres in Europe, it feels right to get all of your hot takes out there now before the real games start. The hotter the better.

I'll start:

1. The Bruins have their playoff spot taken by either the Sabres or Senators and miss for the first time in a while.
2. Utah makes the playoffs
3. Leafs win the cup

Lava take

 

[hamzarocks]

1 of Gretzky's single season records:

Goal Scoring, Assists, Pt Streak, or Pts record is broken this year

 

[brentashton]

Swayman wins the Vezina






playing in Denver.


Edit - sorry @Sheppy

 

[Nathaniel Skywalker]

1 of Gretzky's single season records:

Goal Scoring, Assists, Pt Streak, or Pts record is broken this year

All unbreakable. Only dude who could of was 66.

 

[hamzarocks]

All unbreakable. Only dude who could of was 66.

Yeah extremely unlikely they ever break atleast as the league is currently.

In the future if the league decides to shrink goalie equipment a bit more, increase Avg PPs and have coaches run 5 forward systems and I could see the point streak or goals record broken