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Huskies311 · 09-21-2020, 10:53 AM

Neither expansion team will make the playoffs

I think this is definitely wrong as I know both teams had great expansion drafts and followed it up in the entry draft. I know more about Atlanta than Seattle so I’ll focus a bit more there - they had an active free agency, signing some good players, such as Nolan Sawchuk, Elijah Jones, Rainbow Dash, & Stan Q Next (the self proclaimed greatest FA of all time). They also brought Guy Zheng & Leblanc in from two separate trades.

This aggressive team building bodes well for Atlanta and shows they aren’t afraid to make moves.

*Zoone16* · 09-21-2020, 10:57 AM

Quote:Neither expansion team will make the playoffs

Disagree.I believe that due to the weakness of the Atlantic division, the Atlanta Infrerno have a great chance to make the playoffs in their first season with the team they have assembled. Essentially Baltimore and Tampa are still rebuilding, Manhattan is way ahead of the rest, which would leave New England as the only real source of competition for the playoffs. Looking at their rosters, I would give Atlanta a slight edge and thus a better chance at making the playoffs. The only concern would come from the Great Lakes division as Buffalo, Hamilton and Chicago all look mighty strong.

Quote:Tampa Bay will not finish with the worst record this season - San Francisco will

Disagree. I think the 12M cap penalty and the fact that they need to play their backup goalie more than their starting goalie this season is going to be a rough one for this team. They've already traded away a significant amount of mid-tier TPE players to lower their cap hit. It'll be a close call between them and Tampa for that last place in the league but I think Tampa might just edge them out for last place. Tampa's best players are just weaker than SFP's best players and ultimately I think Tampa will get last place.

Quote:Someone from the S53 draft class will win rookie of the year

Definitely Agree. Not a bold prediction in my opinion. The class had to move up or go through waivers. The best earners are past 800 TPE and some will take on significant roles to start their careers (on weaker teams). Are you sure you didn't mean S54 instead @hotdog ?

Ronniewalker · 09-21-2020, 10:57 AM

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Neither expansion team will make the playoffs

I think both these teams have the potential to make the playoffs in their very first season if things go really well for them, but there is a great chance that this first season will largely be spent focusing more on behind the scenes work instead and the on-ice product will take some time to find it’s proper shape and form. It will take time and good leadership for the locker room to gel together and also the managing team will have their work cut out for them, deciding roles within their organization, setting up their own operating precedures, not to mention their coaching team having to draw up a game plan from scratch using players that don’t have much history playing together. Having to deal with all that at once will be a tough challenge and thus it wouldn’t surprise me if they did both miss the playoffs this season.

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Andy · 09-21-2020, 11:07 AM

Tampa Bay will not finish with the worst record this season - San Francisco will

This is anything but a bold prediction, Tampa Bay is calling up some of its young players this season while San Francisco is just hemorrhaging players. This includes their trade to further rebuild with brining in another first for a player and bring in a 500 TPE inactive to fill out their depth. I don't know if SFP wins 0 but I would take the under from them from the SHL casino

st4rface · 09-21-2020, 11:10 AM

Neither Buffalo or Hamilton will make the Challenge Cup finals

I would say this is wrong. Buffalo last season proved that they are best team in the league and I think they will be back to back champions. Similar with Hamilton - they've dominated this league past few seasons. I think both teams could make finals or even bring home champion title again.

ACapitalChicago · 09-21-2020, 11:13 AM

"Chicago will win the President's Trophy"

Are you joking? Are you honestly serious? When teams like Buffalo and Hamilton exist do you honestly think that anyone else in the league can challenge them? And of those people, you think that Chicago who has yet to prove anything recently in the playoffs will be the ones to top the regular season standings? Can I get some of whatever you're smoking? In what world would Chicago be the ones to beat out these super teams? Not this one.

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*thedangazone* · 09-21-2020, 11:14 AM

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Someone from the S53 draft class will win rookie of the year

Given that S53 players are now coming up in the 900+ tpe range I think this is not even close to a bold prediction. The majority of the competition for the rookie of the year award should be from S53 and if someone younger won it I would be 100% surprised.

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PremierBromanov · 09-21-2020, 11:15 AM

Tampa Bay will not finish with the worst record this season - San Francisco will

This is not a bold prediction because we are literally the best team in the league and any results not true to that fact are merely conspiracy. SFP is the talk of the town in regards to a sleeper...uhh...sleeper. A secretly bad team. And that's all possible. But the biggest thing in this statement is rather tampa. Tampa is calling up 4 young studs in Cuddles, Knight, Zoltan, and Hexx whomst's player name I forget. We are replacing some high end IFAs with these picks, but the players should be better overall. The biggest hole is Benji, who was a stellar goaltender right until the end. We will have issues with goaltending. But larger than that fact is how much the other bottom teams have changed and how much the better teams have grown. It seems like Ham, Buf, Nola, and Man all got really good this offseason, despite the losses sustained to ATL and SEA. Speaking of, I think ATL will give teams a hard time, whereas SEA seems to be going the long-term route. What this means is that Tampa has weaker teams to battle this season. We were able to steal a win or two from NEW last season, but now there are more teams in that caliber of team (which is good, but we can still steal games). Min, Tor, Sfp, Bap, and to some extend the middle teams like new, sea (tbd) will offer up more wins for Tampa, and I think we will come out on top.

JSS · 09-21-2020, 11:23 AM

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Someone from the S53 draft class will win rookie of the year

Not bold at all, Lime's player Steve Harrington is starting the season at 1000 TPE as a rookie on a stacked Buffalo team, rookie of the year will probably be him or someone on Hamilton.

**bbjygm** · 09-21-2020, 11:24 AM

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The Toronto North Stars will finish with fewer points than the Seattle Argonauts

This isn't that bold, the Argonauts got the expansion boost that already gave an advantage over Toronto, and now that Toronto has declared another rebuild it's basically a given that they'll be bottom of the charts again for a bit.

monkey10pts · 09-21-2020, 11:29 AM

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There will be no major scandals during the season

This is a very bold prediction because this is the SHL boys and there are always scandals no matter the year. There will be someone that finds a way to screw up royally

***Ohtaay*** · 09-21-2020, 11:44 AM

"Neither expansion team will make the playoffs"

WRONG.

Im sorry, if anyone says this right is absolutely a dud, or does not follow the league at all. You have two things to consider:
- The Expansion teams: How well did these teams draft through expansion, the trades they made with their current assets, and how aggressively they targeted free agency.
- The Current SHL teams: Did teams get better, did teams get worse? Were there any bone headed decisions made affecting bubble teams.

The biggest point for me is the expansion teams themselves, and mostly Atlanta. First we start with the GM tandem, who both boast high tpe, well preforming players in key postions for their team to build off of. On defence, they have 5 skaters with over 1000 tpe, and two of them over 1500 tpe to handle the top line minutes. This is better then some SHL teams already! On forward is where the struggling a little more with only 5 skaters over 1000 tpe, and two over 1500 tpe. However, as shown by sometimes, they top line players can occasionally carry the offence. Which for Atlanta they will be leaning on Otter and Jones to put up the points.

With all this in mind, I see Atlanta taking a playoff spot in their first season.

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**leafsftw1967** · 09-21-2020, 11:52 AM

The long reign of Edmonton and Calgary is over - neither of these teams will finish the season atop the Northwest Division standings will definitely be incorrect because I honestly see no reason why the Calgary Dragons will not finish first place in their division. On paper heading into season fifty six they should be the best team in their division tpe wise especially with the departure of many top players from the Edmonton Blizzard who was the only team in their division to finish higher in the regular season standings in season fifty five.

Looking over the Calgary Dragons roster, they are going to be one of the top five teams in the SHL in terms of tpe per player in their line up for season fifty six. Heading into season fifty six the Dragons will have six players with over one thousand five hundred and fifty tpe to start the season (Esa Parmborg, Brennan Kennedy Jr, Barry Batsbak, Leopold Lockhart, Maxime Bouchard, Boris "The Beast" Poroshenko).

In particular Calgary’s center position was quite strong with two players over one thousand eight hundred tpe with Barry Batsbak and Esa Parmborg to create a very strong one two punch and the best third line centre in the game at one thousand five hundred a fifty tpe with Boris "The Beast" Poroshenko. On the wing the Calgary Dragons are led by their team captain Maxime Bouchard who has been a power house offensively on the ice for the Dragons throughout his time with the team along with Anders Christiansen, Nicky Pedersen Jr., Mikael Choybuk, and Joseph Weston who are all around or over one thousand two hundred tpe to fill out the wing positions.

On the back end Calgary’s defense is quite impressive with five of their six defensemen this year being over one thousand one hundred tpe and having one of the highest tpe pairings in the league with Brennan Kennedy Jr and Leopold Lockhart. Calgary’s defense is truly one of the top in the SHL and was a big part of the reason why they finished third place in the western conference and were one less goal away from having the best goal against in the conference. The Dragon’s prospect pool on the back end has two really promising players with Bradley Barkov, a season fifty three draft first round pick, who is going to be officially called up for the season fifty six season and slotted in on the third paring in place of a defenseman Smeb who was taken in the expansion draft. Barkov is coming in at around nine hundred tpe at the start of his rookie season in the SHL which should allow him to accelerate in a bottom pairing role.

In net Kata Vilde has been a reliable goaltender for the Calgary Dragons for many season already after being drafted all the way back in season forty one. As one of the oldest players on the team Vilde is still at a solid one thousand five hundred tpe and had decent numbers in season fifty five with a 0.915 save percentage, four shutouts, a 2.53 goals against average, and twenty six wins in forty four games. Another star in the making in net is the prospect prodigy Cale Amundsen who is the heir apparent to Vilde and a former SMJHL goalie of the year and most valuable player in the SMJHL. As a season fifty four second round pick, Cale made his Dragons debut this season and posted an impressive four wins and one over time loss with three shutouts, a 0.59 goals against average and a 0.958 save percentage. Internally with in Calgary Cale has been deemed "the prodigy" for the next generation of Dragons as he has been near perfect in the games he has played so far for the Dragons and should continue to help the Dragons earn those important back up goalie points.

For these reasons stated above, I believe that Calgary WILL finish the season atop the Northwest Division standings.

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BasedMinkus · 09-21-2020, 11:59 AM

Texas will be the top team in the Western Conference

Not a farfetched prediction here. The West got worse with Edmonton losing Theo Morgan and Tor Tuck while Calgary didn't improve much either. New Orleans will be the biggest test to getting that top spot but Texas has a good group of players and teams like the Pride, Chiefs and Argonauts to beat up on.

prettyburn · 09-21-2020, 12:17 PM

Neither expansion team will make the playoffs

I think this is probably wrong, but right or wrong it's definitely not a bold prediction - expansion teams are expected to come in at a bit of a disadvantage, so saying that they might not do well is barely worth saying. The only reason this isn't fully expected is that a couple of teams are so consistently bad that making the playoffs isn't as competitive as it would otherwise be.

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