A few weeks into the season, how are your preseasn predictions holding up?

Question

how are your picks holding up? Are you having nightmares because you picked the leafs to win the cup (laughable at this point) or the Hurricanes to finish last in the SE? (REALLY wrong at this point...)

so what were your best and worst picks? how right or wrong were you?

Answer 1

I'm pretty comfortable in alot of my predictions thus far. The Oilers looking good their first couple games caught me off guard but they have settled back to the bottom of the division. Anaheim's poor start can be attributed to a BRUTAL schedule to start and they are coming around now. Looking at the standings it is playing out pretty much exactly as I thought it would. Nashville will struggle and Buffalo will still be OK just not near as good. Rangers will improve, they are still getting used to each other, I thought the Flyers might take the same time to acclimate but they look great. Boston might be doing a little better than I thought. SJ doesn't look that great early and I have them going all the way.
As for my pre-season player predictions, I was off on a couple (Price in the NHL being one) but I was dead on for some others. Another wrong one was Radulov but when I predicted a break out season for him, I was not privy to the fact that he showed up at camp fat and out of shape.
Onto the good- I expected a big year from Perry and Getlaf (For that schedule I think they are off to OK starts), I said that Martin Gerber would steal alot of time from Ray Emery and take advantage of his chance. I said that Souray would be a waste of money bust (-3 and on the IR). I said Holmstrom would get 40 goals (5 so far). I said Jason Blake's best year ever would be last year (1 goal so far). I said that Stafford and Connolly (if healthy) would have more points than Vanek. I said Ryan Miller is not very good. I said Briere would click with Gagne (on pace for over 100 points). I said Biron was better than Miller. I said that Raycroft AND Toskala are mediocre and Toskala is not their savior.

Answer 2

I'm really surprised at Atlanta and Pittsburgh.

My Flyers, Buffalo and the Islanders are doing better than I expected. I didn't predict anything in the Western Conference.

My picks:

(1) Pittsburgh
(4) Flyers
(7) NY Rangers
New Jersey
NY Islanders

(3) Ottawa
(6) Buffalo
(8) Boston
Montreal
Toronto

(2) Atlanta
(5) Tampa Bay
Carolina
Florida
Washington

On a positive note, I'm doing much better with the NHL than I am with the NFL. My football picks are disastrous.

Answer 3

Some good some bad. I said the rangers would be no better than last year, so far this is holding up. The Flyers are better early than I expected, I thought it would take more time to gel with so many new players. I said jersey would miss the playoffs- gonna have to wait a while on that one. I picked the Wild to do well, just not this well. We willo see in 3 months

Answer 4

My picks are looking good so far. I'm a bit surprised that Boston did as well as they did on their opening road-trip though. I also thought Atlanta would be a lot better.

I actually picked Carolina to win the SE and I've been saying for 40 years that there is no room at the playoff table for the Maple Leafs.

Answer 5

For those who care................Martin Brodeur's GAA and SvPCT are lower right now then they were this time last year!

Oh, last year, the Devils played 8 of their first 12 games on the road.

So, if I use last year as a guide, Brodeur will have a better year and win the Vezina!

I predicted Brodeur and the Devils will have a decent year and make the playoffs (they survived the losses of Stevens, Niedermayer, Daneyko, and Petr Sykora in the past) comfortably - and I still stand by that prediction.

Brodeur Comparison
At this time last year, Brodeur's GAA was 3.423 with a SvPCT of 0.869
This year, his GAA is 3.411 and his SvPCT is 0.876.

He's only 35, He'll recover once the devils start playing home games..............like he did last year!

Answer 6

My team is doing effective appropriate now. on the begining issues have been slightly shaky and not clicking, yet after this previous week there is no longer a doubt in my strategies that they are nonetheless a great as they have been final season. I do see my team making the playoffs (i desire so atleast!) in the event that they did no longer i'm confident you will hear a great style of mumuring going around asking what the hell exceeded off to them. yet in spite of in the event that they do no longer make the playoffs i will shop utilising the lame asserting I say after the different season "we are going to get 'em next 3 hundred and sixty 5 days!" Lol. Falling short? i wouldn't truly evaluate it that. in the beginning they style of all started slow, yet now each and everything seems to be clicking. as long as Jordan Staal can shop enjoying the way he performed against Detroit, and Malkin can shop producing each and every pastime like he has the different pastime, and Fleury would not enable in too many comfortable targets, and Crosby only retains being himself (and keeps to be healthful!), and Brooks Orpik retains giving men "loose candy", and Letang and Goligoski shop producing solid numbers for youthful d-men, and Whitney and Gonchar get better quickly, and Fedetenko retains scoring candy targets in by way of the years, and Tyler Kennedy retains up the great velocity, and Zigomanis retains triumphing all his faceoffs, and devil retains putting pucks in the back of the internet...........they might desire to do precisely effective. (expensive hockey lords, do no longer enable this all that I typed be a jinx)

Answer 7

Pretty good

I was saying SOO MANY times that this was Atlanta's year to REALLY struggle...

Didnt expect Carolina to do this great, but not to finish last.

I expected more from the leafs, shoulda known better xD...

I figured the flames would struggle out the gate early, although they did the same last year.

I KNEW Broduer would really do bad this year, so far so good lol.

Im just suprised about Minnesota, thought they would also struggle this year. oh well.

Though Buffalo would do o.k. Not great, but not horrible.

I had a feeling NY Islanders would do good. started out great with the Comrie, Guerin, and Fedetanko pt. rampage. Kinda calming down now though.


Overall no BIG shockers....

Answer 8

I'm doing good. Brodeur is playing bad, which is the only thing I was constantly predicting in the preseason lol. The NW is tight, like I said. The Pens have surprised me with their slow start, but other than that, so far, not so bad.

Answer 9

It really matters not until April.