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2007/2008 Eastern Conference Predictions

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    2007-2008 Eastern Conference Predictions
    Devils x New York Rangers
    Senators x Ottawa
    Hurricanes x Florida
    Rangers Pittsburgh
    Sabres New Jersey
    Canadiens Philadelphia
    Panthers Montreal
    Bruins Buffalo

     
    Penguins Tampa Bay
    Lightning Toronto
    Flyers Boston
    Islanders Atlanta
    Thrashers New York Islanders
    Maple Leafs Washington
    Capitals Carolina

    Northeast

    1. Ottawa
    2. Montreal
    3. Buffalo
    4. Toronto
    5. Boston

    Atlantic

    1. NY Rangers
    2. Pittsburgh
    3. New Jersey
    4. Philadelphia
    5. NY Islanders

    Southeast

    1. Florida
    2. Tampa Bay
    3. Atlanta
    4. Washington
    5. Carolina

     

     
     
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  1. #1 chevy4CH says:
    September 27, 2007 at 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!

  2. #2 BarrieHabFan says:
    September 27, 2007 at 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.

  3. #3 nilan says:
    September 28, 2007 at 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.

  4. #4 PACTUM SERVA says:
    September 28, 2007 at 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

  5. #5 habsfan_for_life1212 says:
    September 28, 2007 at 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

  6. #6 LeBeau says:
    September 29, 2007 at 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.

  7. #7 Xtrahabsfan says:
    September 29, 2007 at 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!!!

  8. #8 PACTUM SERVA says:
    September 29, 2007 at 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

  9. #9 smiler2729 says:
    September 29, 2007 at 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.

  10. #10 Smiler2729 says:
    September 30, 2007 at 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.

  11. #11 FlowerPWR10 says:
    September 30, 2007 at 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!

  12. #12 Stuart-SB77 says:
    September 30, 2007 at 5:09 pm

    1.Ottawa
    2.NYR
    3.Florida
    4.Pittsburgh
    5.NewJersey
    6.Buffalo
    7.Montreal
    8.Philedelphia
    9.Toronto

  13. #13 Stuart-SB77 says:
    September 30, 2007 at 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.

  14. #14 habs#1fan says:
    September 30, 2007 at 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!!!!!!

  15. #15 Ray says:
    April 9, 2008 at 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!

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  • Senet1 : I want the Bruins to win anyway so that we pick ahead of them in the Draft.
  • Senet1 : Muller you got your wish NYR won game 4. So the Bruins will have to play another game at least.
  • Senet1 : He may just bring all three of the kids up.
  • muller93 : MB is forced to go out and get a big D-man. Missing Emelin for almost half the season is the last thing we needed to hear. Now going out and getting a big D-man is a MUST!!!
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  • muller93 : Senet I did see Galchenyuks goal--Made a great move for the game winner. You can see the kid has so much confidence.
  • goalie : If Rangers get swept I wonder if Tortorella will get his walking papers? Or Glen Sather? They have tons of 'talent' but zero wins in this series.
  • goalie : It's really too bad we lost to the Sens as we would have played the Rangers and the way NYR are playing we would have beat them too. If only. If only!
  • Senet1 : Actually I agree it was a good move for them to play a shorter season and get the experience. He could not have played in the minors this year he would have had to play junior or the NHL. However, he now has a year under him and knows what to expect next year and hopefully take a bigger responsibility on the team. Did you see those two goals in the bronze game? Wow.
  • muller93 : Good move by the Habs not having Galchenyuk play in the minors. Now Galchenyuk has 1 year in the NHL and playoff experience this is going to pay off big time come next year.
  • Senet1 : Galchenyuk scores to back to back goals in shoot out to help USA win Bronze metal. I did not see the second goal but the first was a beauty.
  • Senet1 : So we could pick anywhere from 25th to 23rd depending on who wins these quarter final series.
  • Senet1 : First, is the 14 teams in the lottery. Then there are 12 teams that did not make the semi finals in the order of the seasonal finish, Then there are the four teams in the semi final the first two eliminated pick in the order of the regular season points total and the last two based on who wins and who loses the cup. So as it stand now if say Detroit beats Chicago then Detroit moves up to pick after us. Boston or NYR will move up and pick after us. LA or San Jose will move up and pick after us
  • Senet1 : Basically, I was wrong about the draft pick situation. There are three groups of drafting teams within the 30 teams.
  • Senet1 : seriously ready to challenge for the cup. He will us win games but he will not be the difference between winning the cup and not winning the cup. You pick up players like that once you have the team ready to challenge,.
  • Senet1 : I am looking at the players to draft and there are a lot of big 6'3-6'5 forwards available ion the draft this year. If we could draft 3-4 big young players in the 2nd and 3rd round why would you want to give that up for a roster player who may have 2-3 years at best. If we are going to build a winner to have to build it with bigger players and there are a lot of good big players available this year. So you sign Ott and he is with us for the short run, but probably not when we are seriously re
  • Senet1 : Boullion is a great mentor for the young D-men
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  • muller93 : Getting rid of Kaberle frees up a lot of cash. Boullion is small but is reliable and doesn't back down from anyone.
  • muller93 : Exactly Goalie any thoughts on a punishing D-man?
  • goalie : They;re showing determination adn skill vs Ducks and Blackhawks.
  • goalie : REd Wings could turn out to be the surprise team of this year's playoffs!
  • goalie : WE need to rid our team of Kaberle and Webber. Step two would be to then move Diaz. If we get that big d-man I believe that would push Boullion to # 7 on the chart. We'd then go with Georges, PK,Markov (to continue mentoring Ememlin) Tinordi as our starting six . THEN I'd be excited about our chances. We could then work on getting bigger forwards.
  • goalie : I too would gladly give up a 3rd round pick for Ott- the type of player we sadly lack. AND if we could get one more rugged, expeienced defenceman it would help immensely.
  • muller93 : Senet what you are saying makes sense but if we can get Ott for a 3rd round I'll take that all day.
  • muller93 : MB should be looking at a big D-man first, even though I like our blue line with the addition of Tinordi. We need that insurance just in case one gets injured. Also I'm a firm believer in starting with the goalie first then-defense-for wards-and we already have good goalie. We have all noticed when we have the lead Price is tough to beat.
  • Senet1 : So sometimes you have to sacrifice for one year or two to build that team in the draft. then add the finishing touches through FA and trades.
  • Senet1 : Muller, Detroit is another good example. They have been in the hunt every year with good well balanced teams yet only one or two cups to show for it. However, they have built a team that has a chance every years for the last 10+ years. That is what I think we have a chance to do this year with a good draft. It reminds me of the habs teams of the mid 80 and 90's we built a team then with sold draft picks and won the cup twice during that time period. So sometimes you have to sacrifice a one
  • muller93 : Very true Senet, you do need luck and we haven't had any luck it seems since the habs moved to the Bell Center. We had an incredible run in 2010 with some crazy goal tending from Halak. With Galchenyuk-Tinor di-Gallagher all in 1 year--not too bad, even with an early exit in the playoffs.
  • Senet1 : Muller I guess we all have our own ideas, but there has never been too many times that were successful when they traded their draft picks away. We have a chance to build this team so we have a shot at winning the cup over the next 10 years. Even as good as Pittsburgh has been they have only won the cup once since Crosby and Malkin have been with the team. That is because you not only need great players but you need luck to win, but one thing about Pittsburgh they have a chance every year. The
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  • muller93 : Senet normally I would agree with you on not trading draft picks but we are not in a rebuilding stage. Sometimes draft picks can be a roll of the dice and it can take up to 3 years to be NHL ready. We have a good team and I agree with Stuo players like Clowe-Torres-Ott -Scott will make a big difference. Somebody has to protect Gallagher, he can't keep getting hit the way does--we need a tough forward so they think twice before going after Gallagher.

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