An annual attempt to predict the upcoming NHL season by sorting teams into four divisions.
Opening night is almost here. Are you sick of predictions yet? Too bad, here comes another batch, as I’ve put together my annual attempt to sort the into four divisions. The rules, as always: I get just those four divisions, each with exactly eight teams. We’ll have the bottom-feeders, the middle-of-the-pack, the legitimate contenders, and then the teams I just have no idea about. That last one should honestly just have every team in it, but let’s not dwell on that.
My reward was a third-place finish and first-round exit, which … yeah, pretty middle-of-the-pack stuff. Since they didn’t do anything in the offseason to get all that much better, and since I’m not completely sold on quite yet, they’re back in the middle for another year, albeit far closer to the good side of that than the bad.