The New Division

[zeke]

1. Boston
2. Ottawa

3. Detroit
4. Toronto

5. Montreal
6. Tampa
7. Buffalo
8. Florida

1-4 make playoffs. 1&2 go right down to wire for division and conference title.

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[zeke]

the best goaltending tandem in the conference doesn't include even one goalie who's ever had an above average full starting season.

interesting.

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[worm]

Amen Sensible, amen.

-6 to -29

wow

-29 and they bought at the deadline

 

[JaysCyYoung]

I cracked the numbers a few months ago and gave varying levels of possibility depending on each save percentage projection. Ottawa might allow as many as 40-50 more goals in 2013-14 than they were averaging over 82 games last season.

Sens are on pace to allow 268 goals this season.

They were on pace to allow 177 last year during the lock-out shortened season. I was wrong... they're on pace to allow 91 more goals. :lol

 

[zeke]

Luck in terms of injuries will play a role.

Talent at key positions and depth will play a bigger role if injuries are at a reasonable level.

The talent at key positions includes the best goaltending tandem in the conference.

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[JaysCyYoung]

The Sens are capable of being a top 5 offence and a top 5 defence. Put it together and you have a team that will contend for the conference title.

GF: 177 (13th)
GA: 206 (29th)

 

[JaysCyYoung]

So the Sens are a legitimate contender for the division title while still spending 10M less than the other teams...

Murray >>> Blowhard/Nonis

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[JaysCyYoung]

Only a biased fool would think otherwise.

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[Habspatrol]

1. Boston
2. Ottawa

3. Detroit
4. Toronto

5. Montreal
6. Tampa
7. Buffalo
8. Florida

1-4 make playoffs. 1&2 go right down to wire for division and conference title.

Wow that's bad.

 

[worm]

i dont think anybody predicted anderson to be THIS bad though

 

[zeke]

TSN Fantasy Projections
Kessel 82gp 35g 80pts
Pacioretty 78gp 30g 65pts
Ryan 81gp 29g 63pts
Spezza 62gp 24g 62pts
Plekanec 80gp 23g 59pts
Kadri 76gp 23g 57pts
Galchenyuk 80gp 18g 52pts
Desharnais 80gp 15g 49pts
Lupul 64gp 23g 47pts
Turris 78gp 19g 47pts
MacArthur 75gp 17g 44pts
JVR 71gp 23g 43pts
Briere 69gp 17g 43pts
Michalek 65gp 18g 41pts
Bozak 78gp 17g 41pts
Gallagher 77gp 20g 39pts
Gionta 75gp 22g 38pts
Clarkson 71gp 20g 35pts
Zibanejad 76gp 12g 34pts
Bolland 70gp 15g 33pts
Raymond 70gp 17g 33pts

Karlsson 75gp 21g 65pts
Subban 80gp 16g 57pts
Phaneuf 79gp 13g 40pts
Markov 57gp 10g 35pts
Franson 72gp 7g 33pts
Wiercoch 75gp 9g 28pts
Gardiner 69gp 8g 24pts - hard to tell here because it looks like they have Robidas and Gardiner flipped. They have Gardiner listed as playing in Buffalo with 24 points and Robidas listed as playing in Toronto with 29 pts.

Lehner 12 wins, 0.929
Anderson 28 wins, 0.926
Bernier 24 wins, 0.917
Price 33 wins, 0.915
Reimer 18 wins, 0.915

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Thoughts? Go nuts.

JVR and Bozak stand out to me as pretty damn low.

Nice call.

 

[zeke]

i dont think anybody predicted anderson to be THIS bad though

He's much much closer to his career numbers this year than he was last year. Much closer.

 

[MindzEye]

Corky

I think that a healthy Michalek, Spezza, Karlsson + the addition of Bobby Ryan and the hopeful progression of Zibanejad and Turris will give this team more than enough punch to be able to compete with a goaltending tandem that in all likelihood posts a .925%+ campaign.

 

[zeke]

I'm thinking Briere puts up more than 47 points. I see him in the 60 point range.

Chucky isn't ready to jump to 70 points. Maybe next season. I think they're close at 58 points for him. He wil be around that 60 point mark IMO.

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[worm]

Agreed...But I thought most realistic people put him in the .915 range.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Zbad got beat out because of the extreme quality of the competition he was facing.

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[JaysCyYoung]

#winning

 

[worm]

Need to find people other than sensible or kb.

 

[JaysCyYoung]

Need to find people other than sensible or kb.

No one else was as laughably wrong as those two.

 

[zeke]

Heh. The Sens are a legitimate contender for the division title?

Only a biased fool would think otherwise.

Thanks for chiming in biased fool.

If Anderson gets hurt the Sens still have one of the top goalies in the conference.

The Sens scoring depth will take off this year with the big guns drawing the top defensive assignments. They made the playoffs last year with all their stars out and go better in the process.

There are plenty of reasons everyone but the biased fools have them coming in ahead of the leafs and habs.

I guess everyone except Sensible is a biased fool.

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