Monday, January 7, 2013

Predictions: The Fool's Game


It’s never too early or too late for predictions.

Here we go, pals.

Ottawa Senators Predictions

Finish in Eastern Conference: 5th

Get past 1st round in playoffs: Yes

Leading Scorer: Jason Spezza

Most surprising player: Marc Methot

Comeback player: Zack Smith

Slow starter: Chris Phillips

Fast starter: Milan Michalek

Doghouse candidate: Guillaume Latendresse

Rookie defenseman to crack roster first: Mark Borowiecki

Trade for a defenseman early or wait and see: Early

Trade bait: Ben Bishop

Division team Ottawa will have most trouble with: Boston

Division team Ottawa will dominate: Buffalo

Is this Alfie’s last season: Nope. At least one more.


Rest of the NHL

Stanley Cup winner: Pittsburgh Penguins

Stanley Cup finalist: Los Angeles Kings

Will Bettman present Stanley Cup? No

Who will: Wayne Gretzky

Art Ross: Sidney Crosby

Surprise teams that stumble out of the gate (East/West): New York Rangers/Los Angeles Kings

Surprise teams that charge out of the gate (East/West): Florida Panthers/Edmonton Oilers

Most underrated team: Carolina Hurricanes

Most overrated team: Detroit Red Wings (breaks my heart to say that – I’m a long-time Wings fan)

First coach to get fired: Joe Sacco (Colorado)

Surprise team to make the playoffs: Buffalo Sabres

Surprise team to miss the playoffs: Minnesota Wild

First Brendan Shanahan video: Second day of the season

4 comments:

Michael said...

Leafs 4th. Silf gets the GWG in the series. Don Cherry dies on national television.

Anonymous said...

Alfie breaks a hip going over blue line, EK has a crap season, Hans surprise to upside, buff still sucks, and all NHL players are over-paid bunch of homers who made us go without hockey for 4 months.

Anonymous said...

Ottawa Senators Predictions

Finish in Eastern Conference: 9th

Get past 1st round in playoffs: No

Leading Scorer: Milan Michalek, Spezza gets back issues again.

Most surprising player: Chris Phillips, his lazy stick-poke-swinging checks are down 33% and so are his eyerolls/look toward the arena roof.

Comeback player: Sergei Gonchar, surprisingly good.

Slow starter: Erik Karlsson, only has 3 points in first two games and Team 1200 callers rage against him.

Fast starter: Colin Greening

Doghouse candidate: Erik Karlsson (with fans), who expect him to get 1.5-2 points a game and blame for everything. Some fans even question his commitment to an "Ottawa lifestyle and work ethic" (whatever THAT means!) because he wears flashing clothers (think Ray Emery Part II)

Rookie defenseman to crack roster first: Patrick Wiercioch

Trade for a defenseman early or wait and see: Wait and See

Trade bait: Zack Smith or Guillaume Latendresse when team falls out of contention

Division team Ottawa will have most trouble with: TOronto...Phil Kessel just seems to have our number :( :(

Division team Ottawa will dominate: Boston, Karlsson should >>> Chara's sterling defense and Rask <<<<<< Thomas.

Is this Alfie’s last season: If they miss the playoffs, yes. If they win a playoff round (not holding my breath) then yes...

Anonymous said...

Tired...

That should read: Flashy clothers and No on ALfie if they advance.

Go Sens (for now anyway, indifference will follow if they fall below the playoff line)