Final Standing Predictions

You’re right lol, I disagree with having Saint-Louis under Minny and Chicago, Calgary is better than Edmonton and Vancouver, no idea who I’d put 3rd in the Pacific, Boston imo is 4th in the Atlantic and Montreal makes WC over Pittsburgh

In what way is Calgary better than Edmonton?

Defence and Goaltending for Calgary is clearly better, I’d say Calgary has more offensive depth too

Goaltending smith outplayed markstrom last year by a fairly wide margin and the year before kosk put up very comparable numbers to markstrom so I’m not sure I’d give that much of an edge to Calgary. Depth on blueline will be interesting to watch but the top guys gotta give the edge to Edmonton nurse is far superior to any defender in Calgary and Barrie did lead all d in points last year. Depth scoring that’s easily in Edmonton’s favour given the additions to the team. Hyman foegele Perlini still have Holloway coming up at some point. Calgary might bring a bit more of a physical game but seriously lacks speed in comparison and that physical game comes with risk of penalties which gotta give Edmonton a huge advantage in special team play. I do think Calgary will be improved and compete for playoff spot but can’t see anyway aside from massive injuries finish above Edmonton.

In my opinion WSH and NYR are better than PIT. I think that missing Malkin will hurt and losing McCann will hurt more than Pens fans expect.