Key Highlights
- As it stands, these are the first (Detroit) and third (Montreal) place teams in the Atlantic Division. To be fair to myself, neither of these teams have particularly been good this year, with both carrying a negative goal differential.
- The Red Wings and Canadiens have been riding on the fact that everyone in the East started really slow and are just now starting to heat up.
- At the end of the season, I think I will be able to look back at these predictions and see that I was closer to being right about them at the end of the year than I am now. Metro predictions do not look too badOverall my Metropolitan predictions look alright.
- I was a little too high on Columbus and the New York Rangers, having them make the playoffs and a little too low on Philadelphia and the New York Islanders.
- Overall thought the Metro is a dogfight like I thought. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementI have always liked Columbus and my bias of wanting them to be a playoff contender played into me picking them as a playoff team and for the Rangers, how could you not pick them. The Rangers are not out of the race at all, but the team has been shutout in about 20% of their season, so when it comes down to the wire at the end of the year, I do not trust them to get over the finish line. Both the Flyers and the Islanders came into the year looking to be in the rebuilding category.