Most likely to least likely team to reach the finals in the Western Conference? Rank them

[Ghetty Green]

Dallas
Edmonton
Vegas
Winnipeg
Colorado
LA
Nashville
Vancouver

 

[nightonthesun]

Vegas
Peg
Dallas
Oil
avs
Nucks
Preds
Kings

 

[Czechboy]

Tier 1... AVS, knights and stars
Tier 2 ... Jets, Oiler, Nucks
Tier 3 ... Preds and LA

Having said that . If Preds or LA won the cup, I wouldn't.be surprised.

AVS have georgiev
Knights have to build chemistry fast and seem to often have an injured goalie or 3
Jets have no real weakness
Nucks have no real weakness (Demko needs to be what his fanbase thinks he is)
Stars have no real weakness.
Oilers have the D issues
Preds have no glaring weakness
LA may have goalie issues

 

[BCNate]

I see Vegas as a pretty easy out for Dallas if they play in round 1.

 

[winnipegger]

Edmonton
Winnipeg
Dallas

The rest are losers and won't win anything.

 

[Artemi Panarin]

Colorado
Dallas
Vegas
Vancouver
Winnipeg
Los Angeles
Nashville





Edmonton

 

[vancityluongo]

dallas
winnipeg
vancouver
colorado
edmonton
vegas
nashville
la

 

[Blue Shakehead]

Dallas is the clear favorite
Avs- still a formidable team, despite a rough weekend
Vegas- not underestimating the Cup champs
Edmonton- 2 of the best in the world but now have to break through in a big way
Winnipeg- deep from top to bottom, but no elite forwards or D
Vancouver- real wildcard since they're so unproven...could go deep or fizzle in the 1st round
LA- good team, but goaltending is iffy and scoring could be a problem
Nashville- only cause they were a surprise in the 2nd half...maybe another cinderalla run

Josh Morrissey is a 70 point defenseman who doesn't play with a couple 100+ point forwards to inflate his stats. More importantly, he is actually elite at both offense and defense. It would be hard to find a more complete defenseman in the conference. Carry on....

 

[Raistlin]

I love how everyone is bearish on Vancouver, to be honest they have every reason to be a team just happy to be there, but Hughes and Tocchet seem to be able to get the team performing very well as underdogs.

I team that will exceed expectations will be L.A., if they have Talbot in a groove, they will be an extremely hard out with Kopitar/Dubois/Danault down the middle and a solid D core.

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Josh Morrissey is a 70 point defenseman who doesn't play with a couple 100+ point forwards to inflate his stats. More importantly, he is actually elite at both offense and defense. It would be hard to find a more complete defenseman in the conference. Carry on....

He only plays with a Vezina winner to inflate his stats…solid argument

 

[eviohh26]

LA is the least likely. Most likely is Dallas.

 

[Stealth JD]

Dallas
Nashville
Winnipeg
Vegas
Oilers
Avalanche
Canucks
Kings

 

[FlappyGiraffe]

He only plays with a Vezina winner to inflate his stats…solid argument

He sure is racking up the assists on all of the goals Helle has scored this season!

 

[HanSolo]

I think it's pretty funny how last year people commonly ranked Vegas around 4-6 while I felt that was their year. While this year I feel like they're going to bomb and there's a lot of people that have them top 3. Not to say I think I'm right (and some genius) and they're wrong necessarily. Just amusing to see the shift.

 

[Blue Shakehead]

He only plays with a Vezina winner to inflate his stats…solid argument

Excellent point, well argued.

I think it's pretty funny how last year people commonly ranked Vegas around 4-6 while I felt that was their year. While this year I feel like they're going to bomb and there's a lot of people that have them top 3. Not to say I think I'm right (and some genius) and they're wrong

It’s impossible to handicap the Hertl + Stone version of the 2024 playoff Knights, so everyone is just putting them in the top 3. Which is reasonable.

Dallas is the real deal and they could easily lose. That series should go at least 6 games. In fact, any team in the west could lose in round 1 and it wouldn’t be a real “upset”. The biggest surprise would be a sweep.

 

[SensFactor]

Knights
Oilers
Avs
Stars
Jets
Canucks
Kings
Preds

 

[olafsson]

Edmonton will choke with their D and G issues, again. Many seasons wasted and they still haven’t addressed these gaping holes

 

[Ol' Jase]

Edmonton will choke with their D and G issues, again. Many seasons wasted and they still haven’t addressed these gaping holes

You haven’t watched an Oilers game in a long time, have you?

 

[syz]

Beyond Dallas I have no idea. I like Colorado but Avs/Jets is a coinflip tbh. Same with Oilers/Kings or Oilers/Knights. Don't really believe in the Canucks at all.

Dallas is the only team in the west where losing in R1 would be a surprise to me, but even then there's a chance that they could draw a magically healthy Vegas squad.

 

[Spirits]

Vegas
Dallas
Colorado
Winnipeg

Only Western teams with a chance, and I don't think Colorado has much of one.

 

[Gjman2019]

Stars
Oilers
Knights
Av's
Jets
Canucks
Preds
Kings.

 

[Grigowski]

Edmonton, Vancouver, Colorado, Dallas and Vegas are all capable of making it to the cup final, it will all depend on which goalie is going to get hot.

So the AVs are out because our "starter" is cold like a dead fish.

 

[Siludin]

Vancouver/Nash could go either way. Whoever makes it out of this doesn’t get past EDM imo.

Canucks won every game against both Nashville and Edmonton this season.

 

[syz]

Canucks won every game against both Nashville and Edmonton this season.

Canucks played 0 games against the Oilers that featured a remotely healthy McDavid and still probably only deserved to win 1 of them. Not to say that Demko still couldn't end up stealing a series anyways.

 

[nucks88]

Dallas
Vancouver
Jets
Avs
LA
Vegas
Preds
Oilers