As we embark on a new NHL season, and hopefully the most normal one in a few years, jtbourne shares some thoughts on the league landscape and what's ahead.
Observations, expectations, flat-out guesses… call them whatever you want, but every year it’s only natural to have some takes on what we expect from the season ahead.
The Avalanche are the defending champs and the team favoured by gambling odds to win the Cup again, but I don’t know: they got at least a little worse this off-season in losing Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, didn’t they? Their D may be the league’s best, but there are holes up front and the crease is a question mark. Tampa Bay should be really good again, and likely Carolina too. But I mean “quite good” and not unbeatable .
The opposite is there too, of course. But we don’t need to talk about that during Optimistic October.The NHL hadn’t seen a goals-per-game total like the one from 2021-22 since 1995-96, with teams averaging a total of 3.14 goals per game, for a combined total of nearly 6.3 goals per game. The early-to-mid-'90s was the end of the highest scoring era of hockey, and arguably one of the most exciting ones.
A lot of that spilled over to playoffs, too – 42 per cent of those games saw comebacks as well. There were the most comeback wins in a season since 2010, and craziest of all: 9 of 15 playoff series winners trailed their best-of-seven at one point.This is obviously tied to the first point where I mused that a team may win a Cup that isn’t a part of the pre-season front-runners, but man: look how big some of the ranges are for some of these teams.
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