Your pick for worst team in the league this season?
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CalderSchmalder
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Going out on a limb here but it's gonna be a different season for Barry Trotz with the Isles this year than it was in DC last year, I think.
Correct. He wont win a cup. But the Isles, in all of their patheticness, wont be last. Ottawa had that locked up
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The Rangers have actively said they are rebuilding and their fire sale was particularly aggressive last year. No reason to think they won't continue to blow the team up. I think they are a sleeper for last place.
Its Ottawa. Anyone who says different is....is....ok, nice.
I'm trying to be nice now.
I'm trying to be nice now.
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This pretty much sums it up.Which western conference teams are we going to get points from,never mind beat outright? Every other team has upgraded in the off-season or made lateral moves to stay competitive,while we lost 3 of our top 5 scorers and replaced them with overpaid 4th liners and left our putrid defense as-is.Our best player in pre-season was a 19 y/o rookie,after that we have one decent line and the rest are probably 4th liners or waiver material on a good team.
It is certainly going to be a team north of the border.
Take your pick from Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa. They are all putrid.
Take your pick from Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa. They are all putrid.
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sabremike
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The Islanders have Barzal, Beauvilier, Lee, Bailey and Eberle. The Devils have the league MVP and Nico. No way in hell either even come close to the bottom.
Vegas is my sleeper pick, their best d-man got caught popping vitamins followed by a lot of bottom pairing d-man. Flower is due of his usual slow season.
KirkAlbuquerque
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Vancouver or Ottawa. I don't think either have much talent past maybe 3 or 4 players, and they don't have the reliable goaltending to bail them out. Montreal atleast has that. Arizona might have that and has more depth than either team. Sabres are a true wild card, they have played below their expected talent level and lost ROR but added Dahlin, and I have no idea if Hutton or Ulmark can be a competent starter.
As a football fan I get real nervous if my team goes undefeated in the preseason.
Montreal isn't good, but they're not even remotely close to being the worst in the NHL.
Wouldn't surprise me if the rags bottomed out completely, but we'll see.
Like many, I'm inclined to say Ottawa will be worst due to the last 3 months of their tire fire being out of control, but I look at the rosters &, pound for pound, Vancouver are still worse and their tire fire is still quietly blazing. Vancouver's front office is just as big of a mess and their owner is just Melnyk with money. The way they unceremoniously cut Linden is a harbinger of things to come.
This year Vancouver are pinning everything on Pettersson, Horvat & Boeser, but Boeser doesn't look the same and still looks like he's recovering. He had an awful pre-season and he's going from playing with guys like Henrik & Daniel who commanded the opposition's attention to now everyone will go at him with out any worry. The lose of the Sedins is going to be bigger than some are thinking (and they were trash last year WITH them. Now imagine them without and they replaced them with nothing), This is going to be an absolutely terrible hockey team especially if/when Tanev goes down.
Wouldn't surprise me if the rags bottomed out completely, but we'll see.
Like many, I'm inclined to say Ottawa will be worst due to the last 3 months of their tire fire being out of control, but I look at the rosters &, pound for pound, Vancouver are still worse and their tire fire is still quietly blazing. Vancouver's front office is just as big of a mess and their owner is just Melnyk with money. The way they unceremoniously cut Linden is a harbinger of things to come.
This year Vancouver are pinning everything on Pettersson, Horvat & Boeser, but Boeser doesn't look the same and still looks like he's recovering. He had an awful pre-season and he's going from playing with guys like Henrik & Daniel who commanded the opposition's attention to now everyone will go at him with out any worry. The lose of the Sedins is going to be bigger than some are thinking (and they were trash last year WITH them. Now imagine them without and they replaced them with nothing), This is going to be an absolutely terrible hockey team especially if/when Tanev goes down.
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Tough to fathom how Ottawa and Vancouver won't both finish at the bottom of the league. Not sure which one will finish dead last, but I'd guess the Sens because then they'll have the best shot at first overall in the draft, and we all know that Vancouver never gets first overall in the draft. Simply does not happen.
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Relax junior, it’s just a post.
I am not quite sure you know what the word always means, Heck if they won the lottery in 2016 they would have had Matthews, and the leafs with Laine.
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