von Rantala Posted September 16, 2018 Posted September 16, 2018 So i started to make NHL News. Last teams will come after season started because i am very busy in work and cant turn pc on between Monday-thursday. Playoff Prediction East Metropolitan Pittsburgh Washington Columbus Atlantic Tampa Bay Toronto Boston Wild Cards Florida New York I Team who can Surpise and go in Montreal Philadelphia West Central Minnesota Nashville Winnipeg Pasific Vegas Anaheim San Jose Wild Cards St. Louis Los Angeles Teams who can surprise and go in Dallas Edmonton 1 1 Quote
von Rantala Posted September 16, 2018 Author Posted September 16, 2018 Anaheim Captain: Ryan Getzlaf Alternate Captains: Ryan Kesler, Corry Perry Coach: Randy Carlyle GM: Bob Murray Most Underrated: Rickard Rakell and Josh Manson Most Overrated: Corry Perry Biggest Leader: Ryan Getzlaf MVP: John Gibson Goalie Ranking: John Gibson 50-60 game Ryan Miller 25-35 Game All-star line: Richard Rakell – Ryan Getzlaf – Adam Henrique Cam Fowler – Hambus Lindholm John Gibson Second all-star line: Andrew Cogliano – Ryan Kesler – Corey Perry Josh Manson – Brandon Montour Ryan Miller Strong point: Goalies and top four d-group. Team have solid goalie duo. Miller is one of best back up goalies in the league and Gibson can challange in the Vezina. Also they very young D-group remind a lot Nashville group from two-three season ago. Weak point: Wingers, need help to wingers group. Wingers group is thin and would need boost from either Perry or from trade. Playoff prediction: Probably will go to playoffs, can get advang on playing in weaker division than Central. Arizona Captain: Oliver Ekman-Larson Alternate Captains Derek Stepan, Alex Goligoski, Niklas Hjalmarson, Brad Richardson Coach: Rick Tocchet GM: John Chayka Most Underrated: Antti Raanta Most Overrated: Oliver Ekman Larsson Biggest Leader: Derek Stepan MVP: Antti Raanta Goalie Ranking: Antti Raanta 55-65 Darcy Kuemper 20-25 All-star line: Alex Galchenyuk – Derek Stepan – Clayton Keller Oliver Ekman-Larson – Alex Goligoski Antti Raanta Second all-star line: Michael Grabner - Christian Dvorak – Christian Fischer Niklas Hjalmarsson – Jason Demers Darcy Kuemper Strong point: Raanta in the goal, is Vezina levl goalie Weak point: Very thin offensive group, some young players who can raise lvls, but offense group is full of question marks Playoff prediction: Dropp out form playoffs, can surprise and baddle on last playoffs spot, but will dropp out. Quote
von Rantala Posted September 21, 2018 Author Posted September 21, 2018 Boston Captain: Zdeno Chara Alternate Captains: Patrice Bergeron, David Krejci Coach: Bruce Cassidy GM: Don Sweeney Most Underrated: Torey Krug Most Overrated: David Backes Biggest Leader: Zdeno Chara MVP: Patrice Bergeron Goalie Ranking: Tuukka Rask 50-60 Jaroslav Halak 25-35 All-star line: David Pastarnak – Patrice Bergeron – Brad Marchand Torey Krug – Charlie McAvoy Tuukk Rask Second all-star line: Jake DeBrusk – David Krejci – Danton Heinen Zdeno Chara – Brandon Carlo Jaroslav Halak Strong point: First line is one of NHL best, also goalie group is strong Weak point: Secnd line wingers is minor question mark, in there team need help after losing Rick and Riley Nash Playoff prediction: Will be third in they hard division, this division is very even and fight will be hard, will be in last wild card or third position in division. Will need help to go longer in the playoffs. Buffalo Captain: - Alternate Captains: Jach Eichel, Kyle Okposo, Zach Bogosian Coach: Phil Housley GM: Jason Botterill Most Underrated: Marco Scandella Most Overrated: Jason Pomminville Biggest Leader: Jason Pomminville and Marco Scandella MVP: Jack Eichel Goalie Ranking: Carter Hutton 45-50 Linus Ulmark 45-50 Goalie acquisition possible All-star line: Jeff Skinner – Jach Eichel – Okposo Rasmus Ristolainen – Marco Scandella Carter Hutton Second all-star line: Vladimir Sobotka – Sam Reinhart – Conor Seary Rasmus Dahlin – Zack Bogosian Linus Ullmark Strong point: Toup 4 D group is young and key to they success Weak point: Team lost big players in last season and this summer like Kane and O'Reilly. Players who came to they spot cant fill leaving players spot. Offence group is weak point. Also Hutton is question mark as starter goalie and Ullmark is rookie. Playoff prediction: Will be last places in the NHL, i know i predicted Vegas in last places too (last year), but i dont think Buffalo can make samekind surprise, they compite last three spot of NHL in coming season. Quote
von Rantala Posted September 22, 2018 Author Posted September 22, 2018 Calgary Captain: Mark Giordano Alternate Captains: Sean Monahan, Mikael Backlund Coach: Bill Peters GM: Brad Treliving Most Underrated: Mikael Backlund, Michael Frolik Most Overrated: T.J. Brodie Biggest Leader: Mark Giordano MVP: Johnny Gaudreau Goalie Ranking: Mike Smith 50-55 David Rittich 15-20 Jon Gillies 10-15 Possible goalie acquisition All-star line: Johnny Gaudreau – Sean Monahan – James Neal Mark Giordano – Travis Hamonic Mike Smith Second all-star line: Matthew Tkachuk – Mikael Backlund – Elias Lindholm Noah Hanifin – T.J. Brodie David Rittich Strong point: Offensive Group Weak point: Back up goalie situation. Gillies once one of most hyped goalie prospect, but is he ready to be back up goalie. They could take better back up before season opener. Good to remember also that they starter is already 36 year old. Playoff prediction: I believe they take playoff spot in this year, maybe wild card or third spot in they division. Carolina Captain: Justin Williams Alternate Captains: Jordan Staal, Justin Faulk Coach: Rod Brind'Amour GM: Don Waddell Most Underrated: Sebastian Aho, Dougie Hamilton Most Overrated: Scott Darling Biggest Leader: Jordan Staal MVP: Sebastian Aho Goalie Ranking: Petr Mrazek 45-55 Scott Darling 35-45 All-star line: Teuvo Teräväinen – Sebastian Aho – Jordan Staal Dougie Hamilton – Jacob Slavin Petr Mrazek Second all-star line: Andrei Svechnikov – Victor Rask – Justin Williams Bree Pesce – Justin Faulk Scott Darling Strong point: Defence group is one of NHL bests Weak point: Lack of Wide in the offence group. First line is good, but after top 3. There is not big names and they will truly need help on that group. Playoff prediction: Will drop out. Offence group and goalies not good enough for playoff run. Mrazek could surprise in goal. Quote
von Rantala Posted September 24, 2018 Author Posted September 24, 2018 Chicago Captain: Jonathan Toews Alternate Captains: Duncan Keith, Brent Seabrook Coach: Joel Quenneville GM: Stan Bowman Most Underrated: Corey Crawford Most Overrated: Brandon Saad Biggest Leader: Jonathan Toews MVP: Corey Crawford Goalie Ranking: Corey Crawford 50-60 (if healthy) Cam Ward 25-35 All-star line: Alex DiBrincat – Jonathan Toews – Patrick Kane Duncan Keith – Brent Seabrook Corey Crawford Second all-star line: Brandon Saad – Nick Schmaltz – Artyom Anisimov Jan Rutta – Connor Murphy Cam Ward Strong point: Goalies. Crawford if healthy is top 5 goalies if not even top 3. Was last season MVP for team. Weak point: Offensive group lack of wideness what they had in past years when they made long playoff runs. Also D-group would need help. Toews and Kane big contracts tie teams hands a lot. Probably some forward trade coming. Playoff prediction: For current team. I predict they will be out of playoffs. They lack of wideness in the top 6 in forward group same as 4-6 d-mans could be better. Crawford, great coach and GM can get them to playoffs tho. So they compite on last playoff spot, but dont be surprised if they drop out. I believe they could still make some forward trade before season or in mid-season. Colorado Captain: Gabriel Landeskog Alternate Captains: MacKinnon, Erik Johnson Coach: Jared Bednar GM: Joe Sakic Most Underrated: Mikko Rantanen Most Overrated: Gabriel Landskog Biggest Leader: Mikko Rantanen MVP: Nathan MacKinnon Goalie Ranking: Semyon Varlamov 40-45 Philipp Grubauer 40-45 All-star line: Gabriel Landeskog – Nathan MacKinnon – Mikko Rantanen Tyson Barrie - Erik Johnson Semyon Varlamov Second all-star line: Tyson Jost – Aalexander Kerfoot – Carl Söderberg Ian Cole – Samuel Girard Philipp Grubauer Strong point: Goalies and first line. Weak point: Team second line and offensive wideness is big weakness to team also they dont have good enough d-group to go in the playoffs. Playoff prediction: Probably will be last place in Central division. Last season was exception because they had NHL hottest line, this year only one good line and goalies dont be enough to go in the playoffs. Quote
von Rantala Posted September 30, 2018 Author Posted September 30, 2018 Columbus Captain: Nick Foligno Alternate Captains: Boone Jenner, Brandon Dubinsky Coach: John Tortorella GM: Jarmo Kekäläinen Most Underrated: Zach Werenski, Pierre-Luc Dubois Most Overrated: Nick Foligno Biggest Leader: Boone Jenner MVP: Sergei Bobrovski Goalie Ranking: Sergei Bobrovski 55-65 Joonas Korpisalo 20-30 All-star line: Artemi Panarin – Pierre-Luc Dubois – Cam Atkinson Seth Jones – Zach Werenski Sergei Bobrovski Second all-star line: Boone Jenner – Alexander Wennberg – Oliver Bjorkstrand David Savard – Markus Nutivaara Joonas Korpisalo Strong point: Goalies and defence group Weak point: Center group need help. Coach. Tortorella is coach who is not long living in his teams, because his style eat team atmophere and motivation. Is this season when he got fired? Playoff prediction: I think team should have gone longer last year playoffs, they have good team, i dont like Tortorella style to coach and i dont think he is right guy to lead this team to long playoff run. Go to playoffs but dropp in first or second round. Dallas Captain: Jamie Benn Alternate Captains: Jason Spezza, Tyler Seguin, Alexander Radulov, John Klingberg Coach: Jim Montgomery GM: Jim Nill Most Underrated: Radek Faksa, Esa Lindell Most Overrated: Anton Khudobin Biggest Leader: Jamie Benn MVP: Tyler Seguin Goalie Ranking: Ben Bishop 50-60 Anton Khudobin 25-35 All-star line: Jamie Benn – Tyler Seguin – Alexander Radulov John Klingberg – Esa Lindell Ben Bishop Second all-star line: Mattias Janmark – Radek Faksa – Jason Spezza Marc Methot – Miro Heiskanen Anton Khudobin Strong point: First line in NHL best's. Young d-group can be NHL best in coming seasons Weak point: New coach is question mark? Can he lead team to playoffs, roster is good enough to go in there. Second line would need help. Too much one line team. Playoff prediction: Team is bubble team. Sometimes new coach give you boost what you need. Spezza and Hanzal will benefit on new coach. Hitchock used them wrongly. Will wait Spezza come back to 50+ point man and Hanzal to 40-50 point man. Also team have young players who can product a lot more than last year. If team would play in east it would be playoff team, now its bubble team who can go to playoffs or not. Bishop was not big improvement in goal comparated to Lehtonen and Niemi in past two season. So they have to fix overall defence before they can go to playoffs. Detroit Captain: Henrik Zetterberg Alternate Captains: Justin Abdlekader, Niklas Kronwall Coach: Jeff Blashill GM: Ken Holland Most Underrated: Thomas Vanek Most Overrated: Justin Abdelkader Biggest Leader: Henrik Zetterberg MVP: Dylan Larkin Goalie Ranking: Jimmy Howard 40-50 Jonathan Bernier 35-45 All-star line: Henrik Zetterberg – Dylan Larkin – Thomas Vanek Mike Green – Niklas Kronwall Jimmy Howard Second all-star line: Gustav Nyquist – Fans Nielsen – Anthony Mantha Danny DeKeyser – Trevor Daley Jonathan Bernier Strong point: Solid and good goalie duo Weak point: Team should make total rebuilt, they still have old veterans in key roles when young players is not good enought to be in top 3 or top 6 roles (except Mantha and Larkin). I think its team time to change GM. Holland once best GM in the Hockey but now he havent been able to keep Detroit in the playoff train. Offense and defence group are not good enough to compite Playoff spot Playoff prediction: Will be in lasts spot of NHL in coming season. When team start rebuild what is needed? Zetterberg probably will lose whole season and have to retire and he is team MVP when healthy in age of 38. Quote
von Rantala Posted October 7, 2018 Author Posted October 7, 2018 Edmonton Captain: Connor McDavid Alternate Captains: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Mulan Lucic, Adam Larsson Coach: Todd McLellan GM: Peter Chiarelli Most Underrated: Kyle Brodziak Most Overrated: Milan Lucic, Adam Larsson Biggest Leader: Conor McDavid, Kriss Russell MVP: Conor McDavid Goalie Ranking: Mikko Koskinen 35-45 Cam Talbot 35-45 All-star line: Leon Draisaitl – Connor McDavid – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Darnell Nurse – Oscar Klefbom Cam Talbot Second all-star line: Milan Lucic – Ryan Strome – Kailer Yamamoto Kris Russel – Matt Benning Mikko Koskinen Strong point: Goalies and Center group. I wait that Koskinen will take number one slot in team. I am not Koskinen fan, but he is very very good goalie, so is Talbot too, but i think Koskinen can be very good starter in the NHL. Weak point: Defence group need to better. EDM havent fixed that in more than five years, they have team who can go to playoffs if they add better defenders and second line forward to group. Playoff prediction: Bubble team, could go in if goalies play great season and team secondary offense raise levl little bit. Need help to d-group. If team dropp its time to kick Chiarelli who has done awfull job as GM. Florida Captain: Aleksander Barkov Alternate Captains: Vincent Trocheck, Aaron Ekblad, Keith Yandle, Jonathan Huberdeau Coach: Bob Boughner GM: Dale Tallon Most Underrated: Vincent Trocheck, Aleksander Barkov Most Overrated: James Reimer Biggest Leader: Derek MacKenzie, Roberto Luongo MVP: Aleksander Barkov Goalie Ranking: Roberto Luongo 40-50 James Reimer 35-45 All-star line: Jonathan Huberdeau – Alexander Barkov – Vincent Trocheck Keith Yandle – Aaron Ekblad Roberto Luongo Second all-star line: Mike Hoffman – Nick Bjugstad – Evgenii Dadonov Mike Matheson – Mark Pysyk James Reimer Strong point: Offensive group is one of NHL best's they top 9 is very good and very young. In top 6 all are below 30 year old and all top 6 players can make plus 60 points easily also top 9 is good. Weak point: Top 3 d group is good, but next three is not good enough to long playoff run. Need one more good defender in group but is close to salary cap. Also team could need little bit better back up than Reimer. Is Luongo capable to lead team to long playoff run in age of 39. Also second year coach is minor question mark also. Playoff prediction: Will go to playoffs. In paper Florida team is very good team, so its a lot on coach hands if he can lead them to playoffs. How much Luongo can play and can he still be high lvl also will be biggest factor. Los Angeles Captain: Anze Kopitar Alternate Captains: Jeff Carter, Drew Doughty Coach: John Stevens GM: Rob Blake Most Underrated: Jake Muzzin Most Overrated: Tanner Pearson Biggest Leader: Anze Kopitar MVP: Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar Goalie Ranking: Jonathan Quick 55-65 Peter Budaj 20-25 All-star line: Jeff Carter – Anze Kopitar – Tyler Toffoli Drew Doughty – Jake Muzzin Jonathan Quick Second all-star line: Ilya Kovalchuk – Adrian Kempe – Dustin Brown Alec Martinez – Dion Phaneuf Peter Budaj Strong point: NHL best's core group. Quick, Doughty, Kopitar and Carter. Many teams core group is not so good as they core. D-group also they strong point as center group. Weak point: I think Dustin Brown season from last year was just one good season and he go back to 30 points range and thats mean they would need more help to wingers group. Ilya Kovalchuk is big question mark, can he do what Jagr made when he came back from KHL? I dont think so. I think Kovalchuk will be in 40-45 points range. Playoff prediction: Will go to playoffs and there they are always been good, because so good core. Core need more help from others. Quote
Platinum VIP -=HipKat=- Posted October 7, 2018 Platinum VIP Posted October 7, 2018 On 9/21/2018 at 10:53 AM, von Rantala said: Buffalo Captain: - Alternate Captains: Jach Eichel, Kyle Okposo, Zach Bogosian Coach: Phil Housley GM: Jason Botterill Most Underrated: Marco Scandella Most Overrated: Jason Pomminville Biggest Leader: Jason Pomminville and Marco Scandella MVP: Jack Eichel Goalie Ranking: Carter Hutton 45-50 Linus Ulmark 45-50 Goalie acquisition possible All-star line: Jeff Skinner – Jach Eichel – Okposo Rasmus Ristolainen – Marco Scandella Carter Hutton Second all-star line: Vladimir Sobotka – Sam Reinhart – Conor Seary Rasmus Dahlin – Zack Bogosian Linus Ullmark Strong point: Toup 4 D group is young and key to they success Weak point: Team lost big players in last season and this summer like Kane and O'Reilly. Players who came to they spot cant fill leaving players spot. Offence group is weak point. Also Hutton is question mark as starter goalie and Ullmark is rookie. Playoff prediction: Will be last places in the NHL, i know i predicted Vegas in last places too (last year), but i dont think Buffalo can make samekind surprise, they compite last three spot of NHL in coming season. Now that the lineups are set, and the schedule has begun, still feel the same way? Quote
von Rantala Posted October 13, 2018 Author Posted October 13, 2018 On 10/8/2018 at 1:46 AM, -=HipKat=- said: Now that the lineups are set, and the schedule has begun, still feel the same way? On lineups i just put top three forward from team to first allstar line and next three best to second All-star line. Example in PIT Malkin is in wing and in Toronto Matthews is in wing when Crosby and Tavares take center spots. Because i see that Crosby is little bit better than Malkin and Malkin has played in Wing i use him in there same to Matthews. Tavares is little bit better as overall play in center now, but Matthews probably will go past him. So dont watch too much line compos more who are in the lines. That show my opinion of top 6 in the forward group and top 4 in d- group. Its little bit too early to say yet, if i am honest. Before last season i thought that Housley was best assist coach in the NHL and he could be Jack Adams winner in the future, but i see that he actually failed last season because he wasn't able to improve team. Lehner was solid goalie and they had solid d-group and good offense group last year, but Housley was leading them to worse game than Bylsma, even that Bylsma didnt have so good team to coach. They also lost couple key players what made they team weaker. On those i based my opinion. I hope they will play better this year and could surprise all. Housley is still good coach, they also have couple dynasty players like Ristolainen, Eichel and Dahlin. Hutton started well in goal, but its too early to say anything, i am surprised if iam honest that he has got all games, because i waited they share load to goalies evenly. Let see 1 Quote
von Rantala Posted October 13, 2018 Author Posted October 13, 2018 Minnesota Captain: Mikko Koivu Alternate Captains: Zach Parise, Ryan Suter Coach: Bruce Boudreau GM: Paul Fenton Most Underrated: Mikko Koivu, Ryan Suter Most Overrated: Charlie Coyle Biggest Leader: Mikko Koivu MVP: Ryan Suter Goalie Ranking: Devan Dubnyk 55-65 Alex Stalock 20-25 All-star line: Jason Zucker – Eric Staal – Mikael Granlund Ryan Suter – Matt Dumba Devan Dubnyk Second all-star line: Zach Parise – Mikko Koivu – Nino Niederreiter Jonas Brodin – Jared Spurgeon Alex Stalock Strong point: Team Forward group is very good, one of widest. Wild have Greenway, Kunin, Eriksson Ek, Seeler, Belpedio, Soucy coming to roster in coming season and they make it very wide and very good. Team also have huge amount of leaders in group. Ex captains or ex Alternate or current Captains/Alternate list is probably longest in the NHL. Weak point: Back up goalie is not good enough if Dubnyk injured, Lehtonen is still free so i hope Wild take him. Also playoff curse have to get broken. Washington broke it last year, so now its Wild time. Also Bruce is known for not trusting veteran players as much as young players, hopefully that not make any negative atmosphere in locker room. Playoff prediction: Will go to playoffs and will be big challanger for the cup as long as all key players stay healthy. Montreal Captain: Shea Weber Alternate Captains: Brendan Gallagher, Paul Byron Coach: Claude Julien GM: Marc Bergevin Most Underrated: Brendan Gallagher and Jeff Petry Most Overrated: Phillip Danault Biggest Leader: Shea Weber MVP: Carey Price Goalie Ranking: Carey Price 50-60 Antti Niemi 25-30 All-star line: Max Domi – Jonathan Drouin – Brendan Gallagher Shea Weber – Jeff Petry Carey Price Second all-star line: Artturi Lehkonen – Philip Danault – Andrew Shaw Karl Alzner – Mike Reilly Antti Niemi Strong point: Goalie spot looking good Weak point: They have very thin offence group. They miss 40+ points mans, there is couple young guy who can surprise like Kotkaniemi, Lehkonen, Suzuki and Scherbak, and if they can product then team can surprise, but it could be to early to wait that group to product 40+ points. Playoff prediction: Not be in the playoffs, but could surprise if young players product more than we wait. Nashville Captain: Roman Jose Alternate Captains: Ryan Johansen, Filip Forsberg, Mattias Ekholm, Ryan Ellis Coach: Peter Laviolette GM: David Poile Most Underrated: Ryan Ellis Most Overrated: Ryan Johansen Biggest Leader: Roman Josi MVP: Roman Josi and P.K. Subban Goalie Ranking: Pekka Rinne 40-45 Juuse Saros 40-45 All-star line: Filip Forsberg – Kyle Turris – Viktor Arvidsson Roman Josi – P.K. Subban Pekka Rinne Second all-star line: Kevin Fiala – Ryan Johansen – Calle Järnkrok Ryan Ellis – Mattias Ekholm Juuse Saros Strong point: NHL best defence group at least NHL best top 4 for wide range to others. (edit: San Jose tied situation after Karlsson Trade which was made after my news) Weak point: Third line offence would need little bit help. As a paper, Nahsville is one of bests teams in NHL but they are lacking big 80+ pointman from offence group as good pointman to third line. Playoff prediction: One of favorites to win Cup, will go to playoffs and could win the division and conference. Quote
von Rantala Posted October 14, 2018 Author Posted October 14, 2018 New Jersey Captain: Andy Greene Alternate Captains: Brian Boyle, Taylor Hall, Kyle Palmieri, Travis Zajac Coach: John Hynes GM: Ray Shero Most Underrated: Kyle Palmieri Most Overrated: Cory Schneider Biggest Leader: Andy Greene MVP: Taylor Hall Goalie Ranking: Cory Schneider 40-50 Keith Kinkaid 30-45 All-star line: Taylor Hall – Niko Hischier – Kyle Palmieri Sami Vatanen – Will Butcher Cory Schneider Second all-star line: Marcus Johansson – Travis Zajac – Jesper Bratt John Moore – Damon Severson Keith Kinkaid Strong point: Hard to find clear spot where they are most strongest comparated to other teams in NHL, but they have several good young players coming. Coach is strong point. Weak point: They missing big players from D-group and Wingers and Centers. Only Hall and Hirchier is players who you can wait 50+ points seasons. Playoff prediction: Last year coach made miracles and team was in the playoffs, they dont get full salary cap to use from owner so they lost some players. So will be out of playofss New York I Captain: - Alternate Captains: Andrew Ladd, Cal Clutterbuck, Josh Bailey Coach: Barry Trotz GM: Lou Lamoriello Most Underrated: Anders Lee Most Overrated: Andrew Ladd Biggest Leader: Leo Komarov MVP: Mathew Barzal Goalie Ranking: Robin Lehner 35-45 Thomas Greiss 20-30 Christopher Gibson 15-25 Possible goalie trade All-star line: Anders Lee – Mathew Barzal – Josh Bailey Nick Leddy – Johnny Boychuk Robin Lehner Second all-star line: Jordan Eberle – Filppula – Brock Nelson Pulock – Hickey Christopher Gibson Strong point: They offence group is better than probably many thinks, even that they lost Tavares they top 3 is very good and can be comparated to any other NHL team and they top 6 is also very strong. Weak point: Defence group and goalie group. Lehner is good goalie but they could need better back up and to go long in the playoffs, they need better starter than Lehner who is irregular. D-group also is one of NHL weakest. Playoff prediction: Trotz can lead them to playoffs and i believe he will give boost to team and we see Islanders in the playoffs. They truly need big name D-man in D-group to be bigger threat in the future. New York R Captain: - Alternate Captains: Jesper Fast, Chris Kreider, Mats Zuccarello, Marc Staal, Mika Zibanejad Coach: David Quinn GM: Jeff Gorton Most Underrated: Mats Zuccarello Most Overrated: Marc Staal Biggest Leader: Henrik Lundqvist MVP: Henrik Lundqvist Goalie Ranking: Henrik Lundqvist 50-60 I believe they try to find better back up who play 25-30 game Alexandar Georgiyev 5-10 All-star line: Kevin Hayes – Mika Zibanejad – Mats Zuccarello Kevin Shattenkirk – Brady Skeji Henrik Lundqvist Second all-star line: Chris Kreider – Vladislav Namestnikov – Pavel Buchnevich Neal Pionk – Marc Staal Alexandar Georgiev Strong point: Lundqvist is still top lvl goalie, which is team strong point. His big salary make it hard to trade him to team who compite on stanley. Team also have couple good young d-man coming Weak point: Center group is one of NHL weakest, also offence group is lacking big names as overall Playoff prediction: Will be in last places of East, they are totall rebuild situation. Jeff Gordon has made couple negative trades also. Like Namestnikov, J.T Miller trade was huge mistake from Gordon. Quote
von Rantala Posted October 14, 2018 Author Posted October 14, 2018 (edited) oh boy Wild has been looking slow. We never been fastest team in the NHL, but now we are super slow and thats worries me. We have to be quick in our passes. Dubnyk saved over 40 time in three of our four games. We give two time more shots than we take. Our young players, Granlund, Greenway, Kunin, Niederreiter, Coyle and Eriksson Ek are all good players but they are not fast skaters, they are avarage skaters or bellow avarage. Parise, Koivu and Staal are not fast skaters either, only fast skater of team is Zucker who have been our second best player after Dubnyk. We need to add some speed to our line up and fast, because NHL is changing and we havent been able to keep with it. I still think we can get to playoff, as long as we start play quicker hockey we are same team as last year, only new player in top 9 is Greenway, and we was fast team last year because we played quick puck moving game, we have to get back to that. We cant try to get wins by winning skating competation, we have to let puck do to work. We lost couple players (in freeagency or who was traded) who would help us, like Domi, Duclair, Galchenyuk and Pacioretty. I am waiting some move from our GM now. EDIT. Maybe we could somehow get Nylander from TOR or Hayes from NYR or Kessel from PIT, I hear those could be available atm. Edited October 14, 2018 by von Rantala 1 Quote
Helsen Posted October 15, 2018 Posted October 15, 2018 I hope we will keep this line and Colorado will change places with Wild in your prediction for the play offs and final rankings :). Still a big compliment again for all your work in analyses and teamdescriptions. Quote
von Rantala Posted October 26, 2018 Author Posted October 26, 2018 Ottawa Captain: - Alternate Captains: Matt Duchene, Mark Stone, Mark Borowiecki, Zack Smith Coach: Guy Boucher GM: Pierre Dorion Most Underrated: Matt Duchene Most Overrated: Bobby Ryan Biggest Leader: Marian Gaborik MVP: Mark Stone Goalie Ranking: Craig Anderson 50-55 Mike Condon 25-30 All-star line: Ryan Dzingel – Matt Duchene – Mark Stone Thomas Chabot – Cody Ceci Craig Anderson Second all-star line: Mikkel Bödker – Chris Tierney – Jean-Gabriel Pageau Dylan DeMelo – Ben Harpur Mike Condon Strong point: Anderson is still good and underrated goalie, his stats havent been great last seasons, but its more to blame on team poor defence than his game. Weak point: Where to start? After Karlsson trade team have worst defence group in whole league, they traded Brassard, Karlsson, Hoffman and Turis away in one year, and made they team worst in NHL because only solid return have been Duchene from Colorado. Is Dorion worst GM in history of NHL with Mike Milbury (who i think is worst GM in history of NHL) or is own Melnyk forcing Dorion to make all these moves. Playoff prediction: Last place in NHL Philadelphia Captain: Claude Giroux Alternate Captains: Wayne Simmonds, Andrew MacDonald, Sean Couturier Coach: David Hakstol GM: Ron Hextall Most Underrated: Sean Couturier and Wayne Simmonds Most Overrated: Jori Lehterä Biggest Leader: Claude Giroux MVP: Sean Couturier Goalie Ranking: Brian Elliott 40-50 Michal Neuvirth 20-25 Anthony Stolars 15-20 Alex Lyon 1-5 All-star line: Claude Giroux – Sean Couturier – Jakub Vorachek Shayne Gostisbehere – Ivan Provorov Brian Elliott Second all-star line: James van Riemsdyk – Travis Konecny – Wayne Simmonds Andrew MacDonald – Travis Sanheim Anthony Stolars Strong point: First line is NHL bests, very good and also Giroux and Couturier are NHL best face off guys, also Couturier one of best two-way forwards thats why i valued him more in MVP ranking than Giroux. After van Riemsdyk siginin team also have very good second line. Team also have super talented goalie group with Stolars, Lyon and Hart, who all can be future starters in NHL. Weak point: Team defence group is very thin, you should not be able to put MacDonald who was playing AHL couple year ago to in your second all-start line and as third d man. Was surprised that they didn't sign any d man or tryed to get Karsson from Ottawa. They still have 10 milj space in salary cap. Playoff prediction: Team probably will give 2,5-2,8 goal per night because poor d-group so if they can make 3-3,5 goal per game from they two forward line they can go to playoffs, compite on last (playoff) place with Florida, Montreal, and New York Islanders, but d-group is biggest question mark and lack of big name starter in goal can be final decicing factor. Pittsburgh Captain: Sidney Crosby Alternate Captains: Yevgeni Malkin, Kris Letang Coach: Mike Sullivan GM: Jim Rutherford Most Underrated: Olli Määttä Most Overrated: Justin Schultz Biggest Leader: Sidney Crosby MVP: Yevgeni Malkin Goalie Ranking: Matt Murray 50-60 Casey DeSmith 15-20 Tristan Jarry 15-20 All-star line: Yevgeni Malkin – Sidney Crosby – Phil Kessel Kris Letang – Olli Määttä Matt Murray Second all-star line: Jake Guentzel – Derrick Brassard – Patrick Hörnqvist Brian Dumoulin – Justin Schultz Casey DeSmith Strong point: Center squad is probably NHL best (Crosby, Malkin, Brassard, Cullen) Also team d-group is better than many thinks, they have very solid and good top 6. Maybe some have better first pair than Pit. Weak point: Winger squad could be better, when Malkin is used in center its leave only Kessel as star lvl winger to team. Playoff prediction: Probably win they own division and is second or first in the east and you can wait long playoff run from them as long as Murray stay healthy. Quote
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