MTPS: Four NHL Season Predictions Sure to Go Wrong & One I Really Hope I'm Wrong About
We’ve cooked up some predictions for the new season—some fun, some painful, and one I don’t even want to think about.
I think we're all getting a little antsy waiting for the NHL season to start—heck, at this point I would take NHL preseason games! While the interminable (look it up, it's a word) wait continues let's have some fun with some terrible, no good, very bad predictions, as well as one that is a little too realistic for my liking.
The Maple Leafs Crash and Burn
Every year there's at least one team that people think is going to be good that turns out to be caca. Last year, despite throwing out big money on Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov, Boston was that team. Whether you want to blame it on Jeremy Swayman's holdout or just bad luck, a team that was supposed to contend for the President's Trophy was closer to contending for the first overall pick.
This year I'm calling Toronto. If we're being honest, once you get by Matthew Knies, Auston Matthews, and William Nylander, the Leafs have a sneaky bad team. Their goaltending is questionable at best and their defensive players are old, slow, or both. Toronto added grit at the trade deadline and doubled down on it over the summer by adding guys like Nick Roy and Dakota Joshua. Seriously, take a look at their projected top six and tell me this is a team that's going to keep pace this season.
