With the NHL season starting tonight here is a quick one sentence outlook for each NHL team. It will be snarky, it may not be nice, and its all in good fun. Plus I guarantee I will be wrong on at least half of these sentences by the end of the season.
Eastern Conference -(team order is random… not projecting order of finish)
- Atlantic Division
- Toronto
- Give up hat tricks for Patrick? (Brandon forward Nolan Patrick who is the projected number one pick as of today).
- Boston
- Slow and slower…the 2016-2017 Zdeno Chara experience.
- Florida
- Father time leads the future.
- Ottawa
- Scoring not named Karlsson..does enough of it exist?
- Detroit
- Everybody gets another first round playoff exit!
- Canadiens
- Is Price alright?
- Tampa Bay
- Win now because not enough not enough money exists to pay for later.
- Buffalo
- So many free agents, so little depth.
- Toronto
- Metropolitan
- Carolina
- Can they Ward off last place?
- Pittsburgh
- How many weapons does Crosby need?
- Washington
- Any year now Ovie.
- New York Islanders
- Who steps up with Tavares?
- New York Rangers
- The king needs more scoring to help in defending the Garden.
- Columbus
- Does Bob still have it?
- Flyers
- Can Hak do it again?
- New Jersey Devils
- Help out Schneider, please.
- Carolina
- Pacific
- Anaheim
- What can Randy do that Bruce couldn’t?
- Los Angeles
- How much grit can one team have?
- Edmonton
- Larsson may be good, but he’s no Hall.
- Calgary
- Can Elliot stop the goalie carousel?
- Vancouver
- So fast, so little secondary scoring.
- San Jose
- Can Bodker speed a return to the Cup?
- Arizona
- So fast,so skilled, so unproven.
- Anaheim
- Central
- Chicago
- So many rookies, so much leadership,Western Conference Finals?
- Minnesota
- Slow, overpaid, and no depth.
- Colorado
- Can the defense help out?
- Winnipeg
- People should ham up Laine’s skills more.
- Dallas
- Seguin will be sensational.
- St. Louis
- The Tarasenkshow continues.
- Nashville
- P.K. will play well, can Rinne still produce?
- Chicago