I would be surprised if Vancouver makes the playoffs. Or that Vegas miss it over them

I wouldn't, Outside of Edmonton we easily have the best center depth in the division, arguably the best/ 2nd best top 9 within the Division, and arguably the best goalie in the division as well, most of Vancouver's problems last year was due to coaching, and with mostly the rest of the division taking a step back I don't really have a hard time seeing it

Ottawa high key becoming one of the most overrated teams, yes their top 6 is good but that is it. Talbot couldn't do anything with Minnesota who had one of the strongest defensive teams in the league and ottawa has one of the worst defences yes they have chabot and zub but chabot isn't that strong defensively and Brodin, Spurgeron are some of the best defencemen defensively in the league add on suter and dumba who are also solid top 4 dmen.

Ottawa may give Bruins a run for their money offensively but defensively and goaltending B's are better
Mcavoy/Lindholm/Carlo/Grzz is 3 times stronger then Chabot/Zub/Hamonic/ Brannstrom and Ullmark and Sway are better then Talbot/Forsberg.

Looks like you are missing a Central team. Minnesota exists.

I'd say Boston has a better right side and goaltending outside of that, i see them taking a step back, father time is going to catch up soon, I don't think their vets will be as dominant this year. How ever i wouldn't be shocked to see them squeak in

They probably finish behind LA and Vegas. Both teams have far better depth top to bottom.

Vegas depth is pretty depleted outside of their top line, Sounds like the room isn't the best either, LA has goaltending issues imho Quick is too old to carry them far, i still think they are a wild card team

i do agree that bergy and marchy are bound to take a step back but honestly how much could they fall bergy just won the selke and marchand was still on a near 100 point pace yet being suspended a lot and having a serious shoulder injury for most the season.

Pasta was scoring at an above .7 goal per game rate once lined with hall 30 games into the season and that was with Haula as their C now with potentially krecji or zacha as their center who are both much better offensively id expect hall and pasta to put up better numbers then they had this season.

smith and debrusk were also terrible to start the year and then debrusk was scoring at a crazy rate to end the season and smith stepped up big aswell, carlo and Grzelcyk also had one of their worst seasons, carlo went from being a very strong defensive dman and this year he looked out of place and Grzelcyk was scoring at .5ppg pace the season before this one and his luck just wasn't their this year, also give us a full season of lindholm now and sway being more developed and ullmark getting used to our team now aswell as adding Montgomery who is a better offensive minded coach which boston needed i truely think once boston gets healthy their team will have more positives then negatives from this season compared to last. But again this is all in my personal opinion.

One player doesn't make Columbus a playoff team. Also, Pens don't finish that high.

Philadelphia is getting last in the Metro. I don’t care what anyone says but they are the worst team out of the Metro.

Columbus is an overrated team and probably not making the playoffs but they could be close.

Detroit will could possibly beat Boston in the standings