Interesting

Thanks for doing this!

Funny, this is my predictions list, but with only Vancouver and Winnipeg, Columbus and Nashville, Vegas and St Louis, San Jose and Arizona, Los Angeles and Anaheim, and Washington and Boston switched. I guess my predictions were not "hot takes" lol.

Damn...

Flames and Oilers play each other 3 times in the last 5 games, I think that there will determine 2nd in the North Division. I don't think it's a run away for Toronto though, a lot of 6-5 wins in the Canadian division this year.

Toronto - 75 - 85 Points
Calgary - 70 - 80
Edmonton - 70 - 80
Vancouver 60 - 70
Montreal - 60 - 70
Winnipeg - 55 - 65
Ottawa - 45 - 55

How is Montreal after Edmonton we’re only worse than them in superstars

That was just the voting. And superstars are a huge part of this league

Not true. Look at last year. Look at what both teams did this off season. We will be better. We will come out on top!

Most overrated on cap friendly:

NEW YORK RANGERS.

Don't think Dallas is overrated based on the division they're in. Leave TB and CAR out, and the 6 teams left are all pretty meh. DAL as a cup finalist and as a relatively deep team deserves that 3rd place when comparing to the rest. CBJ and NSH offense is very meh, and they live by their defensemen. FLA, aside from Barkov, Huberdeau and Ekblad, is very meh and CHI and DET are both rebuilding.

Wouldn't be too surprised if points wise the top player from Dallas is a D-man. Either Miro or Klingberg. They carried Stars offense during the playoffs, and I don't think it's about to change.

I don't think Dallas is really overrated, Seguin had an atrocious playoffs (he was hurt I suppose lol) and they still reached the cup final. They're a more defensive team by nature, and score by committee with a lot of depth. I also think Gurianov and Heiskanen will continue to take steps forward. A rebound from Benn playing with some younger, more energetic guys wouldn't hurt, but isn't required to still be better than Columbus and Nashville (Florida has too many defensive question marks and a huge one in net and Chicago and Detroit are basically non-factors).

For the Canadian division, I'm kinda surprised Montreal is that far ahead of Vancouver and Winnipeg. Superstars talk in this league and Montreal's only superstar is Price (even Dallas had Khudobin, Heiskanen, and arguably Klinberg step up and play like superstars during their run, despite Seguin faltering and Benn just being above average). Petey+Hughes and Helle+most of Winnipeg's forwards will keep that close. I think all 3 have significant flaws (for Winnipeg it's bad defense, for Vancouver it's mediocre goaltending and overpaid mediocre depth, for Montreal it's a lack of elite talent anywhere, but especially up the middle) and will be a pretty close fight for 4th. Toronto and Calgary are more complete teams and I think they'll ultimately finish 1-2, and Edmonton did improve their depth, and their goaltending might be slightly better by default if they ride Koskinen (D still sucks though, arguably worse with Klefbom out and Barrie in). At the end of the day though, McDavid and Draisaitl are both guys that can decide to score 5 points at the drop of a hat on any given night, and that gamebreaking talent on two different lines will likely carry them in to the picture (especially if they decide to go crazy and win solo on separate nights lol). So to summarize, my only issue with this is that Montreal seems clearly ahead of Vancouver and Winnipeg, it's good that the latter two are tied, but Montreal is closer to them than Edmonton imo. I do have the Habs 4th still for the record.

As for the rest I'm inclined to mostly agree. MIN vs. SJS will be interesting but I also have MIN with a slight edge. NYR will put up a good fight, but NYI vs. PIT vs. WSH will be the real story, with Ovie and Sid simply refusing to miss the show. BOS regresses slightly, but still really good. Likely worse power play due to Krug leaving, but Smith helps their already pretty good depth and they still have elite goaltending and a pretty solid D core. COL, VGK, STL, TBL, CAR, PHI are cruising. ANA vs. LAK is really splitting hairs, but ANA has better D and an elite goalie, so I see them finishing 7th, but that's basically irrelevant, both are bottom 7 in the league again. CBJ vs. NSH will be interesting but NSH is still kind of in that murky middle, unless they get a big year out of Tolvanen or Granlund or something. FLA will be like NYR except in a less competitive division--hang around for a bit, fade unless Bob goes back to Vezina-calibre. BUF ahead of NJD because Hall+Eichel is better than anything NJD has right now. Hopefully Hughes starts gaining some confidence down there.

Most underrated, buffalo lol

Haha! It’s definitely debatable. I think a lot of teams can be underrated. Okay... most hated by other fans Edmonton.

Thats impossible!

People underrate EDM and BUFs depth, and players who used.to be bad.on both teams moving down the lineup become better, Say it top2 d moves from top pair to second they look better.EX Risto.

Definitely agree... you guys are in a tough division this year! I honestly don’t see you guys making it, but it may be close. The reason is because mainly the goaltending. Hutton, and Ullmark. It’s gonna be hard, unless they are good. I think the additions of Hall, and Staal are definitely god upgrades, and that could make your top 6 very good! Also Dahlin is VERY underrated.

This is actually really cool man! Thanks for doing it! It is definitely a really smart and good way to figure this out. Aside from a few outliers im sure this is pretty damn realistic.
(Also A LOTTTT of leafs fans) but also maybe they do still have the solid edge! IDK

What outliers?

I think every division but the North is probably right.
The heavy TOR fanbase on here I think sways that division.
TOR probably battles it out with VAN for 3rd/4th

You may be right. However the leafs were not voted first because the site has many leafs fans. Every voter put the leafs in the top 2 including fans from mtl, ny, Tampa. If you disregard the vote of every leafs fan they still get voted first.

I know, I knew the math wouldn't be there but I can't express enough how little it means to me!

Yah the math wasn’t involved! Edmonton is gonna be first!

Will be an interesting division. Who knows

100% agree... best of luck.

TOR are not runaway favourites

Tough look