Ironically, it was the Hawks knocking the Penguins out of a playoff spot that got them points to put themselves into the spot to draft Bedard.Considering how disgusted I was after last seasons first round exit, i'm surprised at how excited I am. Don't know about Laviolette, but i'm pretty excited for the assistant coaches and development staff Drury brought in. Weird thing to get excited about but everything i've seen and read about them checks every box for me. This particular house cleaning was LONG over due.
Also alot of new young talent across the league i'm looking forward to watching and hopefully far fewer teams blatantly tanking for Bedard. That shit really gets annoying when the top teams are neck and neck in the standings and it comes down to who played the most bottom feeders for free points. There needs to be a better point spread and I think we'll get it this season.
Buffalo for sure will. They had the best offense in the league last year and are loaded with young defenseman. Once Levi got called up at the end of the season it looked to stabilize their goaltending. Ottawa should be better as well, but still questions on defense and goaltending. Montreal is gonna suck dick again. No goaltending, only a few good forwards and defense is still lacking.Will Montreal. Buffalo, or Ottawa make waves this season? I think of of these 3 Ottawa has the most balanced team and if they are actually healthy they might grab a playoff spot.
Looking for the Wings to just be better than last year. Toronto fans might disagree, but we actually have 5 NHL caliber defensemen behind the Seider-Walman pairing. This is an exciting thing that we haven't had in years.
I think Detroit will be better this year, but goaltending will be a problem, and you have one line of forwards that can score. You have to have four lines with depth to make real waves. I'll be surprised if Detroit makes the playoffs this year after the year they just had.
TB's depth is gonna get tested pretty soon too but they just know how to flip that switch and play the important games better than anyone. I know it's gotta come eventually with them, but i'll believe it when I see it.
Lol this guy is such a piece of shitMike Babcock fired before he even coached 1 game lol