Speculation: Your teams strengths and weaknesses

[Majorityof1]

St. Louis Blues

Strengths:
- Forward depth out the wazoo; rolling 4 scoring lines
- Strong defense
- Lots of youth being injected into lineup

Weaknesses:
- The powerplay coaching was a disaster last year; has to improve
- Allen a question mark as starting goalie
- We don't have a traditional 4th line, it's just a bunch of kids; this may or may not become a weakness, we'll have to see

Good list. I don't think the lack of a 4th line is a weakness unless the kids don't perform. I do think it will be troublesome when we try to inject 4th line scrubs in as injury call-ups. I'd say the youth is a potential double edged sword so it fits both positives and negatives. I'll just add a couple more to the above.

Negatives (going here first because I am a pessimist):
- Rookie mistakes/fatigue - 4 rookies (Schmaltz, Thomas, Kyrou, Blais) + Barbashev and Dunn with < 100 games.
- No Elite level talent - 80+ points or award consideration, although Pietrangelo and Tarasenko are close but need to take over games more consistently

Positives:
- Don't need to play match-ups, solid face-offs and defensive skill with all Cs

 

[EdJovanovski]

Strengths:
Center
Right Wing
Goaltending

Weaknesses:
Left Wing, especially right handed shots
Defense

 

[Mattavarner]

Leafs
Strengths - Will have without question the best defence in the league, right up there with Nashville and SJ.

Weakness - Will have a very hard time scoring goals this year, will have to win alot of games 1-0 or 2-1

 

[Evgeny Oliker]

Strengths:
Center
Right Wing
Goaltending

Weaknesses:
Left Wing, especially right handed shots
Defense

This is very generous.

My opinion:

Strengths:
Depth overall - Despite the rebuild, we still can have 4 scoring lines and 3 decent D pairings
Center depth - some decent centers for sure, but no one elite
Left wing depth - Kreider, Vesey, Namestnikov, Spooner

Weaknesses:
No blue chip prospects
Goaltending - After Lundqvist, the future is uncertain

 

[EdJovanovski]

This is very generous.

My opinion:

Strengths:
Depth overall - Despite the rebuild, we still can have 4 scoring lines and 3 decent D pairings
Center depth - some decent centers for sure, but no one elite
Left wing depth - Kreider, Vesey, Namestnikov, Spooner

Weaknesses:
No blue chip prospects
Goaltending - After Lundqvist, the future is uncertain

We have the best goalie prospect on the planet

 

[Just Linda]

We have the best goalie prospect on the planet

When did you get Hart?

 

[shadow1]

Strength: Defense.

• Erik Johnson, Tyson Barrie, Sam Girard, Ian Cole, Nikita Zadorov, Patrick Nemeth, Mark Barberio, with Connor Timmins (IR) on the cusp. Easily the best group Colorado has had in a decade.

Weakness: Right wing.

• Left wing is more or less okay (Landeskog, Kerfoot, Nieto, Calvert), but on the right side, things get really grim after Rantanen. Colin Wilson, Gabriel Bourque, Sheldon Dries, and Sven Andrighetto (IR) round out that group.

 

[Artanis]

Ottawa

Strength : We're a team!
Weakness : Everything else.

 

[rynryn]

Wild
S: competent at every facet of the game
W: outstanding in nothing. (but defensive scoring i guess)

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Is anyone actually able to read this?

Who the hell cares? It's funny!

 

[Voodoo Glow Skulls]

Canes
Strength
Defense 1-7

Weakness
Proven centers
Goaltending
Proven scorers 3-9

Strength: Top 5 prospect pool.

 

[stokes84]

Buffalo

Strengths: A ton of young talent.

Weaknesses: All of our talent is young.

 

[DFC]

TB

Strengths: Scoring, depth, and franchise-level players at C, D, G, and W.

Weaknesses: I don't know how we manage to play so weak defensively with this personnel, but we always underachieve in our own end. Always.

 

[YP44]

LA:

Strength: Veteran leadership
Weakness: Aging club

 

[indigobuffalo]

Leafs

Strengths

Our offence is pretty great -)Tavares, Matthews, Kadri, Marner, Nylander, Marleau....
Left side defence is decent -) Rielly, Gards, Dermott, Borgman, Rosen, Marincin

Weaknesses

Right side Defence -) Lacking a top pairing defenceman...
Goalie Depth after Andersen ugh -) Sparks isn't great, if andy goes down we will be running either a combo of Sparks, Kaskasiou or Sparks, Mcadam.. Not good....

How 2015 of you.

Leafs have Zaitsev, Ozhiganov, and Liljegren (future #1 RHD) on the right side. Not sure I would call that a weakness. It’s certainly a belief held by the hockey illiterate, though.

I would agree goaltending depth is an area of concern for the moment. Not sure it’s dire, could sign Mason or Lehtonen in a pinch.

 

[Just Linda]

Added strength.....you got rid of that trouble maker John Tavares. (kidding, too soon?)

I wouldn’t say too soon, they gave him 9 years

 

[Jarey Curry]

Speed and high end skill up front

Inexperience

 

[miscs75]

Islanders

Strengths:
Coaching
Top 6 forwards (Barzal, Lee, Beauvillier, Bailey)
Ryan Pulock (the rest of the blueline is suspect)

Weaknesses:
Everything else

 

[KingCanadain1976]

LA:

Strength: Veteran leadership
Weakness: Aging club

I would add strong defense good pk as strengths and pp and goal scoreeing as weakness

 

[Canucks1096]

Strengths

Pettersson

Weaknesses

Everything

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Lightning:

Strengths: C, W, LHD, PP
Weaknesses: PK, PK, team defense, PK

 

[VoluntaryDom]

Although tbf our PK was great against the panthers we’ll see if it’s a fluke or not

 

[Scott Stevens]

So far?

Elias as a strength

Most of the rest as a weakness

Any positive things happening through skill and ability pretty much start and end with #40.

The rest of the team hasn’t done much outside of what any other average cast of nhl level characters can accomplish.