Flyers Will Win The Stanley Cup, says The Hockey News

shabbs wrote:The Sens could land anywhere between 5 and 8. Top 4 is pretty much locked up and the rest is up for grabs. I think the Leafs may surprise this season...

if they manage to steal Kessel away from Boston, I may agree with you, but a team that is tough but has trouble scoring goals is a pretty risky bet, Toskala is still a huge ? in terms of health and who knows how Monster is going to respond, I prefer our tandem over theirs, even with Leclaire's past injury history.

Not with Emery in nets, haha, he's getting lit up. Picking up right where he left off in Ottawa, a goaltender who can't make the big save or even some of the easy ones. Couldnt be happier.

Personally, I think the Flyers are one of the best teams in the league. Unfortunately for them, Emery is all that stands between a good team and a great team.

shabbs wrote:The Sens could land anywhere between 5 and 8. Top 4 is pretty much locked up and the rest is up for grabs. I think the Leafs may surprise this season...

HA! Check what I said a ways back... so far they are surprising me by sucking so much more than I could have ever imagined. Wow.

Their level of sucking is something special. I only hope they find a way to continue this. It's shaping up to be a truly awesome train wreck for the white and blue.

shabbs wrote:The Sens could land anywhere between 5 and 8. Top 4 is pretty much locked up and the rest is up for grabs. I think the Leafs may surprise this season...

Boy, Shabbs, were you ever right, in a wrong kind of way.

They're sucking so much they could suck a taxi driver through immigration!

Hey-O!!!!

spader wrote:Their level of sucking is something special. I only hope they find a way to continue this. It's shaping up to be a truly awesome train wreck for the white and blue.

Careful what you ask for...the last thing we need is for Boston to land a top five pick in this year's draft.

What do you think the chances are that they don't land a top pick? I will be really surprised if they don't.

spader wrote:What do you think the chances are that they don't land a top pick? I will be really surprised if they don't.

Toronto won't go winless this season. Some teams that are off to hot starts will cool off a bit...I think you'll get an idea of how things are going to shape out this season at the 25 game mark.

If The LEafs win a game in October they should consider themselves lucky.

PKC wrote:

spader wrote:What do you think the chances are that they don't land a top pick? I will be really surprised if they don't.

Toronto won't go winless this season. Some teams that are off to hot starts will cool off a bit...I think you'll get an idea of how things are going to shape out this season at the 25 game mark.

That's a bit of an unusual jump. I said (indirectly) that TO will finish in a lottery position, you took that to mean that I believe they won't win a game? I don't get it.

spader wrote:What do you think the chances are that they don't land a top pick? I will be really surprised if they don't.

There's almost no chance they're not in the lottery, but I can see them finishing out of the top-5.

Let's see what happens with Gustavsson in goal and Kessel up front.

What's Kessel going to do? There is absolutely NO ONE in Toronto that is anywhere near as skilled as Savard. If Kessel hits 20 goals this year I will be shocked.

N4L wrote:What's Kessel going to do? There is absolutely NO ONE in Toronto that is anywhere near as skilled as Savard. If Kessel hits 20 goals this year I will be shocked.

I think he'll get 20 based on the fact that he's going to play tons of minutes, specifically on the PP. He'll definitely need a good centre though if he wants to actually earn the money he's being paid. If he isn't scoring goals, it's not like he's earning it elsewhere like a Toews would.