2007/2008 Eastern Conference Predictions
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2007-2008 Eastern Conference Predictions

x New York Rangers 
x Ottawa 
x Florida 
Pittsburgh 
New Jersey 
Philadelphia 
Montreal 
Buffalo 
Tampa Bay 
Toronto 
Boston 
Atlanta 
New York Islanders 
Washington 
Carolina Northeast
- Ottawa
- Montreal
- Buffalo
- Toronto
- Boston
Atlantic
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NY Rangers
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Pittsburgh
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New Jersey
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Philadelphia
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NY Islanders
Southeast
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Florida
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Tampa Bay
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Atlanta
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Washington
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Carolina
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- Avatar37 : Senet - I agree, Metropolit is impressive and Metro and Moen always seem to come up clutch. I really hope they sign him to a 3-4 year deal.
- goalie : Isn't it a lot more interesting and fun when our team is playing well and on a run!
- Senet1 : So we have a good third line the fourth line is playing responsible hockey and the first line is generating offense as well as controling the play. Plek is playing hard and still managing to get a goal here and there so if Cammy can get back maybe we have four solid lines. Right now Martin is rolling the four lines well and I think we are tiring out the other teams.
- Senet1 : I also am impressed with our fourth line Metro, Lapierre and Darche. They are playing some productive minutes killing time and tieing up the other team in their zone.
- Senet1 : This line sort of reminds me of the Gainey line, they always scored the big goals in tight games. Believe it or not when the game was tied 1-1 I thought is is about time our third line got a goal and a few minutes later they did. It is become a regular thing this line.
- rocky : Moore brings great puck possession in the offensive zone and Segie can finish plays. Nice to watch, they are smoking third lines on other teams right now.
- Senet1 : I agree his brother is working out really well with Moore and Moan. They have offensive abilities and at the same time are very responsible defensively.
- rocky : He has talent you know, but just no intensity or desire for hockey at this stage. He should watch his brother right now and do his best to emulate him.
- rocky : That would s*ck. They should sit his ass.
- Senet1 : Yea I agree, because if not either Pyatt or Darche will be sent back down maybe both?
- goalie : I must say I'm impressed with ther attitude , effort and quality of play the Habs are exhibiting. I didn't think they'd pull it off this year. A playoff spot is certainly there for the taking. WAY TO GO BOYS and KEEP IT UP. Thius is a whole lot better team for the fans to be cheering on also!!!
- rocky : He has no DESIRE out there and that is such a killer when every other guy out there is really playing hard as hell.
- rocky : In my mind we would lose nothing whatsoever by sitting him and giving a rookie a shot. Especially when Cammalari returns.
- Senet1 : yea really, just when his brother starts to play well he disappears completely. Is he playing injured, if so he should sit out and get well.
- rocky : Oh my god, if you are looking for negatives right now that is the place to start. He is not even trying to skate. Did you even notice him other than his badly timed penalties?
- Senet1 : I bet Hamilton could beat them anyway.
- rocky : Exactly senet, the leafs live to put out players when they are in their predictable non-playoff position. I can almost gaurantee they do it again.
- Senet1 : Something is going on in AK46's head. He has played badly before but right now his head is not even in the game?
- Senet1 : Yes I remember what they did to Koivu two years ago on the last game of the season. It might now be a bad idea to bring up Hamilton for the game.
- rocky : I agree, the missing link is Cammalari's scoring touch coupled with Bergeron on the powerplay.
- Senet1 : Once Pouliot got back and Moore was attained we finally had two lines that could be productive in all aspects of the game. If we could get Cammy back so that our second line had more offence 5on5 we will be tough to beat.
- rocky : What scares me about the leafs is every time we play them in a situation like this one of our top guys gets hurt. We should sit the stars for that game...just kidding.
- rocky : Character guys like Gionta, Metropolit, Moen, and Moore are making this team look like a playoff contender. The Moore and Pouliot deals changed the plot this year.
- Senet1 : Now lets beat the Leaf's who have been playing spoiler on just about everyone parade lately.
- Senet1 : Your great rock
- rocky : Just call me sunbubble senet!
- Senet1 : I agree with Rocky about contract negotiations at this time of year. Hopefully, we can still get Plec signed.
- Senet1 : Oh and to think we were going to tear them apart less than a month ago. Or Maybe it has been Rocky's Power of positive thinking that has helped. LOL
- Senet1 : It is amazing when you have a healthy team and you give the players time to develop some chemistry. I am also impressed with our defence of late, they are now healthy and have had time over the last two months to play with their partners and get used to one another. If this team gets additional help from Cammy and Bergerion we are going to give anybody a tough time in the playoffs.
- rocky : I have to say a major contract negotiation at tis crucial stage of the season would be a big distraction.
- rocky : The other thing is WOW. This team has its shit together right now. Playing a very dicsiplined style of hockey generating pressure in all parts of the ice. They are doing what other teams have been doing to them all year. Bring on Cammalari. This team has played its way into contention and deserve credit for that.
- rocky : Hate to say it but I say Plekanek will walk.
- Senet1 : Our GM could offer him the "C" although that might put Markov's nose out of joint.
- Senet1 : Well I sure hope not too but if he wants more than 5.5M then it will make it hard to sign him.
- goalie : When I just read that Plec will not be negotiating until after the season....I'm worried. He has been our best player this year and I'm worried that he may just decide to 'walk'.The Habs cannot let their best players just 'walk' like BG did. Poorer players, let them walk but not Plecs.
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September 27, 2007 pm30 7:45 pm
Who made up these predictions?
Montreal in the playoffs? What a joke! more likely Montreal in last place!
Sometimes I think people have their head in the clouds, and walk around with rose colored glasses on! Wake up people and smell the roses. The habs stink!
September 27, 2007 pm30 9:19 pm
With the way the Leafs, Bruins and Islanders look on paper it could help squeeze Montreal into one of the last two playoff spots.
September 28, 2007 pm30 11:49 am
Going to have to disagree, boys. Habs are not any better or worse than last year UNLESS guys like Huet, Higgins, Ryder, Komisarek, et al have breakout seasons. If they come out of the gates hard- impressive performances against Carolina, toronto, Pittsburgh- to start the season, it could set the tone for success. This is not going to be a Cup winning year, but there is no reason to write this team off yet.
September 28, 2007 pm30 4:44 pm
One more thing to put into consideration is how many games abeircher blew for us with weak goals.Not making excuses but if he would have played somewhat like a goalie we would have made the playoffs last year.I do agree with you nilan though we are no worse or no better than last year but if our goaltending can be solid we make the playoffs for sure
September 28, 2007 pm30 11:51 pm
My predictions for 2007-2008
1-Ottawa*
2-PIttsburgh*
3-Carolina*
4-New York Rangers
5-Philadelphia
6-Montreal
7-Buffalo
8-Toronto
9-Washington
10-New Jersey
11-Florida
12-Tampa Bay (No Boyle!!)
13-Boston
14-Atlanta
15-NYI
September 29, 2007 pm30 10:51 am
I say squeeze the Islanders into 7th and drop the Habs down to 8th and the Sabres down to 9th and that list looks more accurate. I’m not so sure the Hurricanes will end up in the basement either…
My prediction is that Montreal’s going to have a mirror season to last. Come trade deadline, Gainey will finally make a big trade, involving Huet and Ryder. We’re going to have to also lose Ryder in order to make the deal work. I love Ryder, but I have a feeling he won’t want to come back next season anyway.
That trade will help push Montreal into 8th.
September 29, 2007 pm30 11:53 am
Gainey,s biggest blunder loosing Souray and getting nothing and then over paying Hammerlicker to fill the spot?Well it’s going to be hard for Bob to top that,as for the present and the future,that will be up to the young guy’s and how they adapt to get us out of basement.The nice thing about it is you can’t go down any further,unless your pactum,lol,it got to go uphill from here.
The big question should be,how many chanches more do Gainey and Carbo get at this?Les Canadiens and Montreal have way to much fabled history for this to continue for much longer”baseball’s fabled Yankies are allway’s contenders cause they don’t except loosing!”
Again size is an issue with the Habs,so a lot of the smaller older players will get hurt,making room for hopefully bigger younger players at mid season,when Bob finnaly gets rid of Kovalev”fired”,trades Koivu to a contender”well earned” ,trades Huet and Ryder,retires Brisbye,put’s Murray on waivers and packages Bully and Dandy to who ever…… THE SOONER THE BETTER… GO HABS!!!
September 29, 2007 pm30 12:05 pm
Wow extrahabsf ag you know it all.Once again you show how much you know nothing about hockey.Hey bud just stick to lawn darts.lol
September 29, 2007 pm30 1:08 pm
I don’t think it is a stretch to have Montreal make the playoffs, and it is also totally feasible to have the Habs missing the playoffs… That’s why they play the games, all I can hope for is for the Canadiens to be competitive and entertaining.
Truth be told, I’m glad Gainey didn’t make any stupid deadline deal last February and also glad he didn’t spend outrageous amounts of money on free agents (Briere, Smyth), I like the fact that the prospects are coming along and in most cases, making the team (Kostitsyn, Chipchura, O’Byrne and maybe Price and Grabovsky to go along with Latendresse and Lapierre from last year).
My heart and my head tells me this team is not as bad as we think. Stay tuned.
September 30, 2007 pm30 7:56 am
Okay, it’s now Sunday morning and the Habs actually looked good last night in the OT loss to Ottawa considering they sat some big guns -BUT- Patrice Brisebois has got to go. Is it too late to just cut the guy and call it an experiment that didn’t work out? Is his contract this season guaranteed? I hope he enjoys the press box cuz he doesn’t see a sheet of ice all year if I’m the boss. Just make him a waterboy or something.
September 30, 2007 pm30 1:03 pm
Carolina dead last? Come on now…The “sure bets” in this Conference (and no particular order): New York, Pittsburgh/Carolina and Ottawa leaving four spots to be filled by .500 teams (at best). If you think last years race to the wire was close then wait until this year when Les Habs et al aren’t secured a spot until the very last game…this will be a very long winter!
September 30, 2007 pm30 5:09 pm
1.Ottawa
2.NYR
3.Florida
4.Pittsburgh
5.NewJersey
6.Buffalo
7.Montreal
8.Philedelphia
9.Toronto
September 30, 2007 pm30 5:11 pm
I see people with Philly 5th. look Briere sucks except,for the last 2 seasons. he’ll probably get around 70-80 pts this year. They got briere a good centre. But hey they had a good centre before in forsberg.=last place. The biggest difference this year will be Biron.
September 30, 2007 pm30 7:19 pm
Here’s my predictions for this year:
1. x-Ottawa
2. x-NY Rangers
3. x-Washington (my bold *** prediction for this season says Wsh wins the weakass Southeast)
4. Pittsburgh
5. Buffalo
6. Tampa Bay
7. Montreal
8. Philadelphia
The bottom 3 including YES I hate to say it the Habs could be bumped out by teams like Florida, New Jersey, Toronto. I think the points will be real tight.
I know one thing if the Habs end up 2nd in the Northeast (which I hope and pray they do) they will end up higher than 7th, I think they will be 5th. 6th at worst.
Bottom line GO HABS GO!!!!!!
April 9, 2008 pm30 8:33 am
It’s funny now to look back and see where the predictions were, I’ve surfed a few sites for my own amusement, it’s nice to see so many got it wrong.
Yes, it’s surprising that Montreal is in the #1 spot, but for all of those who said they wouldn’t make it, I have to laugh, those with the heart, knew they wouldn’t miss the playoffs two years in a row. Never would of happened
But interesting to see the comments from the beginning.
Now… Let’s hoist up that 25th cup banner high!