East
Definitely in: Tampa bay, Washington, Pittsburgh
Probably in: Boston, Toronto, Philadelphia
Possibly in: Florida, Columbus
Possibly out: New Jersey, Carolina
Probably out: Buffalo, NYI, NYR
Definitely out: Montreal, Detroit, Ottawa

West:
Definitely in: Winnipeg, Nashville
Probably in: St Louis, San Jose, Vegas
Possibly in: Colorado, Minnesota, LA*
Possibly out: Anaheim, Dallas* , Calgary
Probably out: Chicago, Arizona, Edmonton, Vancouver
Definitely out: none

*Imo Dallas will have more points than LA but won't make the playoffs cause the central is too stacked and will already have 5 teams in

EAST
DEFINITELY IN: Tampa Bay, Washington, Toronto
PROBABLY IN: Boston, Columbus, Pittsburgh
POSSIBLY IN: Florida, New Jersey, Buffalo
POSSIBLY OUT: Carolina, Philadelphia
PROBABLY OUT: Detroit, NY Rangers
DEFINITELY OUT: Montreal, NY Islanders, Ottawa

WEST
DEFINITELY IN: Winnipeg, Nashville
PROBABLY IN: Edmonton, Minnesota
POSSIBLY IN: Colorado, San Jose, Calgary, Los Angeles, Vegas
POSSIBLY OUT: St. Louis, Arizona, Dallas, Anaheim
PROBABLY OUT: Chicago
DEFINITELY OUT: Vancouver

West is much more difficult to predict, I think there is a bunch of teams who have similar chances of getting into playoffs.
In East I really expect Buffalo to have a decent season, not because of Dahlin but becuase you simply cannot be that bad with so many 1st picks for so long

EAST:
DEFINITELY IN: Tampa Bay, Washington, Pittsburgh
PROBABLY IN: Toronto, Boston, Columbus
POSSIBLY IN: Philadelphia, Florida, Buffalo
POSSIBLY OUT: New Jersey, Carolina
PROBABLY OUT: NY Rangers, NY Islanders
DEFINITELY OUT: Ottawa, Detroit, Montréal

WEST:
DEFINITELY IN: Winnipeg, Nashville, St. Louis
PROBABLY IN: Colorado, Los Angeles, San Jose
POSSIBLY IN: Minnesota, Anaheim
POSSIBLY OUT: Dallas, Vegas, Chicago
PROBABLY OUT: Edmonton, Calgary
DEFINITELY OUT: Arizona, Vancouver

There is usually 3-5 teams that change in the playoff every year so I'll pick 5 new teams to be in this year Arizona ,Calgary, Dallas, St L and Florida. The 5 I have out are NJ, LA , Anaheim, Minnesota and Winnipeg. Yes Winnipeg I'm not sold on the goaltending one year does not make a superstar goaltender he is going to regress a bit it's just how much so to me this is the scariest team to predict

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Islanders and Hurricanes....ouch.