Speculation: Second Half Predictions

[SniperHF]

Since previous predictions were a bit of a hot topic, let's make all new ones!

1. Dvorak will average around 15 minutes per game in the second half.

2. Mike Smith's ever-increasing theatrics will get him a 1 game suspension.

3. Hanzal will be "injured" when traded and it won't actually impact the return much (remember the Z deal). I guess that means I'm also predicting they actually trade him

4. Vrbata will not be traded.

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[GiveAFlyingPuck]

Someone will post the Clubber Lang picture.

 

[Muppet]

The season will be abruptly cancelled after 70 games, when a certain President gets upset at something on Twitter and begins a nuclear exchange with another country.

 

[_Del_]

They gave LeBlanc nuclear codes?!

 

[Muppet]

They gave LeBlanc nuclear codes?!

He'd delay the launch by two weeks.

 

[RemoAZ]

We will have the worst record in the league and pick 3rd.

 

[Spirit of Lindgren]

The Coyotes will feel badly enough about how the season went that they will do what the Dbacks did and not raise the price of season tickets.

 

[Llewzaher]

We will have the worst record in the league and pick 3rd.

Worst record in the league and pick 4th.

 

[Sinurgy]

The Coyotes will finish last, finally draft #1 overall, take Nolan Patrick and he will be the next Patrik Stefan.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Doan announces retirement.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Someone will post the Clubber Lang picture.

Gotta do it for the youngsters that may have missed this classic

 

[MIGs Dog]

...the next Patrik Stefan.

Just looked at the 1999 first rd. Wow! Overall a bad draft class. 2/3 of those guys I never heard of.

 

[Lawson of Anarchy]

OEL admits ongoing wrist injury and undergoes ligament surgery.
Richardson returns and finishes the season on a PPG streak.

 

[FinnishCoyote]

Domi comes back and Killer D's plays amazingly rest of the season.

 

[Kaibur]

Tucson will win the Calder Cup and the Coyotes will finish dead last.

 

[cobra427]

We extend Hanzal, trade Stone, keep Verby. Our second half point total is higher than the first half(going out on a limb).

 

[rt]

Worst record in the league and pick 4th.

Correct.

 

[kihekah19*]

Chayka makes the deal of the century and brings in Ovechkin and Malkin and we finally have the coveted Russian Connection complementing Burmistrov.

 

[Summer Rose]

Smith's play drops off (or he gets injured and can't play). We're 30th in the league after the TDL. Smith goes on a lights-out streak to elevate us to 27th. Hanzal gets traded at the deadline for a high value because the state of the league is very few sellers and a lot of buyers.

We win the draft lottery in a weak draft year. Doan retires. Chayka gets fired but not Tippett. We make some shuffle moves prior to the expansion draft. Our relocation to Kansas City is announced on July 30th. Tucson Roadrunners move up to Phoenix and become affiliated with Las Vegas. Some AHL franchise somewhere (I don't care to cynically/sarcastically or seriously predict where it will be) gets created to serve as Kansas City's affiliate.

 

[Lilhoody]

Tucson Roadrunners move up to Phoenix and become affiliated with Las Vegas. Some AHL franchise somewhere (I don't care to cynically/sarcastically or seriously predict where it will be) gets created to serve as Kansas City's affiliate.

I can live with this.

 

[Matias Maccete]

I can live with this.

Me too, that plus asu's division 1 hockey would be good enough. Still not nhl quality, but a decent consolation.

 

[AZviaNJ]

1. Coyotes finish 29th and draft 3rd (hello Nico)

2. Smith comes back from ASG weekend and is a complete train wreck until a season ending injury in Dallas Feb 24

3. Doan announces retirement on March 1.

4. Hanzal traded to Montreal for McCarron, Plekanec (25% retained) and 2018 2nd (best of the 3 MTL has). Plekanec helps AZ reach cap floor in '17-'18, Mtl clears cap space

5. Stone (50% retained) traded to NYR for 2017 3rd and 2018 2nd (lowest of the 2 they have)

6. Vrbata and 2017 Det 3rd (owned by AZ) traded to Chicago for 2017 1st.

 

[howlincoyote2k1]

The Coyotes will finish last, finally draft #1 overall, take Nolan Patrick and he will be the next Patrik Stefan.

Precisely what I was about to say.

 

[_Del_]

The Coyotes will finish last, finally draft #1 overall, take Nolan Patrick and he will be the next Patrik Stefan.

I can see this, but I can also see it being more Coyotes to take him, have him completely dazzle with over a ppg, we barely miss the playoffs, and then he has a shoulder/knee injury in the last month of his rookie season and never hits more than 40 pts again before Europe or early retirement.

 

[ClassLessCoyote]

Doan gets traded to the Jets and will win his 1st cup in Winnipeg.