Your 2023 season hot takes!

[Prarievarg]

Cooley wins the Calder

 

[Indrid Cold]

Buffalo doesn't just squeak into the playoffs but is a top 8 team in the NHL.

This is the one I agree with. I'm rooting for them until my Wings are back competing. But, I have a sneaky feeling Buffalo wins the division.

 

[Rob Brown]

Except they didn't regress and finish middle of the pack.

 

[SkeeterPumpkinEater]

Columbus blue jackets make the playoffs.

 

[King Karl]

Except they didn't regress and finish middle of the pack.

Oh yeah... Let's just gloss over that part.

 

[PuckG]

Bergeron unretires on game 82. Nicely rested for a B's playoff run. He'll later tell us it's called pulling a 'Lightning'.

Wouldn’t it be a “Golden Lightening?”

 

[the_fan]

There won’t be a single complaint about the refs all season long

 

[Rob Brown]

Oh yeah... Let's just gloss over that part.

...you made it seem like you were a genius for predicting something that never happened. Well done.

 

[AuroraBorealis]

The Pens will have at least one goddamn player shoot over 15% this time.

 

[Kobe Armstrong]

Arizona makes the playoffs and is top 10 in GF and GA

 

[kvladimir]

The Arizona Coyotes will make the 2024 playoffs. The Boston Bruins will not.

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Guy Boucher takes over the Leafs in December

 

[KrisLeturnover]

Tristan Jarry has a bounce-back season and receives at least some Vezina votes.

 

[PettersonHughes]

Tampa narrowly misses the playoffs given all the roster subtractions they've had to make depleting their depth and the teams around them getting better (probably leapfrogged by Buffalo).

Florida somehow turns Ekman Larsson back into a top-pairing defender (Canucks fans everywhere hoping I'm wrong about this one).

 

[brentashton]

Pittsburgh Hockey Writer votes for McDavid as Hart MVP.

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Cooley wins the Calder

I'd say that lukewarm take. Cooley is a superstar in the making.

 

[The Red Line]

If Lafreniere break out this upcoming season, the Rangers will faceoff the Devils in the conference final

They play in the same division and the Devils are already better so... Which of these teams is a Wild Card team then? You're basically saying the hot take is the Rangers will be worse this season than last season, which actually isn't a hot take at all.

Edit: ah I see this a retrospective thread, but this post was made a few days ago so my critique still stands.

 

[CBJx614]

Jackets not only make the playoffs but make it past the first round.

 

[PavelBure10]

Canucks finally squeak into the playoffs, first time in which feels like a 1000 years.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Anaheim makes it to round two of the postseason

 

[wunderpanda]

dolan threatens to move rangers to hartford
coyotes make playoffs
dumba signs a 1 year deal
panthers trade ekblad

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Boston goes from a record-breaking season to the biggest drop in history and miss the playoffs.
Only 3 teams from the Central make the playoffs.
Carolina wins the Presidents Trophy.

 

[Kevinsane]

The refs finally stand back and let someone pummel Jordan Binnington. The next day a press conference is held where several Blues players apologize for not coming to his defense.

 

[dirtydanglez]

mcdavid 200

 

[Ezekial]

2023-24 Selke winner Dylan Larkin